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Diploma of Vocational Education (Watch and Clock)
Full-time S3 or above Diploma

Programme Code FS113377

Diploma of Vocational Education (Watch and Clock)

Programme Advantages

Programme Advantages

Programme Advantages

Project-based learning (PBL)

Through mini-projects, students are equipped with basic project skills.

Programme Advantages

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Students are motivated and their learning interest is aroused by using different means of technologies.

Programme Advantages

Extensive industry support

Students who participate in the "VTC Earn & Learn Scheme" can earn a steady income while acquiring knowledge and developing skills.

Programme Advantages

Project-based learning (PBL)

Through mini-projects, students are equipped with basic project skills.

Programme Advantages

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Students are motivated and their learning interest is aroused by using different means of technologies.

Programme Advantages

Extensive industry support

Students who participate in the "VTC Earn & Learn Scheme" can earn a steady income while acquiring knowledge and developing skills.

Basic Information

Watch design, manufacture and maintenance consist of state-of-the-art technology and craftsmanship. Both manufacturers and dealers of famous watch brands require their employees receiving a formal training prior to do maintenance jobs in the service centres. The college provides Swiss professional brand equipment and tools, allowing students to experience the unique professional facilities in the industry. The programme aims to help students to develop, through a balanced curriculum with generic and vocational knowledge and skills, and structured whole person development competencies in a specific trade so as to well equip them working in the watch and clock industry later. Graduates may choose to seek employment or pursue further studies.
Mode of Study Full-time
Duration of Study 3 Years
Offering Campus(es) / Venue(s)
Youth College (Kowloon Bay)

Professional Recognition

Graduates who are employed and registered as apprentices in the relevant trades can be exempted part of the training required.
Remarks
  1. For some modules of the programmes, the medium of instruction and assessments is Chinese.
  2. Students may be required to attend classes on other VTC campuses. VTC reserves the right to cancel any programme, revise programme title, content or change the offering institute(s) / campus(es) / class venue(s) if circumstances so warrant.

Entrance Requirements

  • Completion of Secondary 3; OR
  • Equivalent

Articulation / Employment

Articulation

Upon completion of the first-year full-time study, students can join the watch and clock industry as apprentices and further complete the Diploma of Vocational Education Programmes with both CVE and DVE awards in part-time mode.

Holders of Diploma of Vocational Education (students admitted to DVE in AY2017/18 or before are required to complete prescribed further studies modules) are considered having met the general entrance requirements of Higher Diploma programmes (not applicable to programmes with specific entrance requirements). Please refer to the details of Higher Diploma programmes in this homepage.

Students can participate in The Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades & Industries Ltd. - Dr. Samson Sun Scholarship, which is unique to this programme and offers the opportunity to study in Switzerland for a short-term study or to pursue a Higher Diploma programme in watch and clock related fields.

Career Prospects
Graduates may be employed as watchmaker trainees, assistant engineers, technician trainees, watch designer trainees, watch maintenance trainees, sales and merchandising assistants, trading assistants, assistant quality control officers or technician apprentices etc. They may work in the areas of watch design and development, sales and marketing, production management, watch product testing, project management, watch merchandising and watch maintenance, etc.

Curriculum

  • Vocational English
  • Vocational Chinese
  • Mathematics
  • Information Technology
  • Whole Person Development Modules
  • Safety, Health & Environment
  • Solid Modeling for Watch and Clock (Using 3D Computer-aided Design software)
  • Mechanical Watch Movement
  • Quartz Watch Movement
  • 3D Printing for Watch
  • Watch Manufacturing Technology
  • Principles of Watch Components
  • Complete Watch Assembly Practices
  • Watch Movement Maintenance
  • Computer Aided Drafting for Watch and Clock
  • Watch Product Development
  • Assembly of Complete Watch
  • Watch Product Testing
  • Watch Tools Making and Maintenance
  • Project Skills
  • Plastics and Metal Parts Design
  • Watch Design Essentials
  • CAM and Machining
  • Project
Remarks
  1. DVE students may consider taking the elective module “Mathematics 3E: Mathematics for Further Studies” for the eligibility to apply for VTC’s Higher Diploma programmes which require Level 2 or above in HKDSE Mathematics as one of their general entrance requirements. Students may be required to pay a separate tuition fee for this elective module.

Tuition Fees

Secondary 3 and Secondary 4 graduates will normally be exempted from tuition fee payment for 3 years and 2 years of study respectively.

Programme Highlights

Hong Kong Youth Watch Skills Invitations

Hong Kong Youth Watch Skills Invitations

Students use the skills they have learned in class to show off their talents in the competition and compete for rich prizes and job opportunities.

Overseas training

Overseas training

Students who receive the Dr Samson Sun Scholarship will study at the Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program (WOSTEP) during their studies.

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Full-time S6 or above Diploma
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Diploma of Vocational Education (Electronic and Computer Engineering)

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Programme Code FS113359

Diploma of Vocational Education (Building Services Engineering)

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