Feb 10, 2010 20:47
14 yrs ago
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French term

atelier découpage

French to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general) fine watch-making
In the resume of a fine watch-maker:

responsable d'atelier découpage et traitement de surface

And again in the list of responsibilities in this role:

développement nouvelles technologies de découpage, lavage et traitement de surface

réglage et utilisation des machines de découpage, mise d'épaisseur, ébavurage et lavage

In the watch-making context is this process simply called cutting (i.e. a cutting workshop)? or shearing? or something else specific to this industry? Only experts in this field please!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 stamping (work)shop
4 blanking workshop

Discussion

Hélène Curtis Feb 10, 2010:
«découpage and traitement de surface» where this individual`s responsibility in the workshop....look at it from this angle...
Charles Robert Feb 10, 2010:
I would go for it, but I'm no expert. Wait for a Swiss input.

Proposed translations

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1 hr

stamping (work)shop

Découpage can be synonymous with stamping/blanking, and your subsequent ref. to étampe suggests this is the case here.

Here in the STAMPING SHOP NOT ONLY WATCH CASES ARE MADE, but also many pieces of jewelry. The stamping machines have elaborate safety measures to be sure ...
chopard.watchprosite.com/show-nblog.post/ti-556496/

In the STAMPING SHOP, rolls of coiled steel are cut and then stamped under ...
www.davestravelcorner.com/journals/publish/article_453.shtm...

Factory tooling workshop. Production STAMPING WORKSHOP. It has advanced and high technology machinery from Switzerland, Italy and Japan described below, ...
megacase.net/profile.html

The STAMPING WORKSHOP is divided into three teams with 60 CNC manual or automatic feed presses. The department is managed by several technically-trained ...
www.varin-etampage.ch/default.asp?MenuID=7397&PageID...

The STAMPING WORKSHOP comprising presses with a capacity of around 200 tonnes
http://www.worldtempus.com/en/encyclopedia/index-encyclopedi...

The STAMPING WORKSHOP © Dubois Dépraz ... Pascal Dubois has WATCHES In his blood. He and his brother Jean-Philippe are the fourth generation at the head of ...
journal.hautehorlogerie.org/.../PASCAL-DUBOIS-ON-WATCH-CULTURE.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Stephanie Ezrol
30 mins
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9 hrs

blanking workshop

From the same dictionary as quoted previously (the "Bible" of watchmaking...):

BLANKING n. Act of cutting out. Plates of steel or brass are used for the cutting out, in the rough state, of most of the parts of a watch.
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