WGN Spotlight Chicago: Hampden’s First Hand Watchmaking Workshop
Hampden Watch was recently featured on WGN Spotlight Chicago in a segment highlighting First Hand, our hands-on mechanical watchmaking workshop at Hampden’s Chicago headquarters.
The segment brings viewers inside the experience: a small-group class where guests step into the role of watchmaker, assemble a Swiss mechanical movement, case the watch, and leave wearing the piece they built themselves. It feels less like a class than a day spent at the bench.
First Hand was created for people who want more than a finished object. Over the course of the workshop, guests slow down, work under magnification, learn what makes a mechanical watch come alive, and connect with a craft the Wein family has practiced for more than a century.
A Hampden watch usually carries its story on the caseback. A First Hand watch carries the day you built it.