Do you know how to service your own watch?

In theory, I know, but it will take me a lot of practice on cheap vintage pieces and chinese ones before I service my store bought watches.

BD. Little knowledge, no gear, no skill. It would be nice to have all that, but life gets in the way.

I never did that but if your watch have a popular movement you could probably find video of servicing it.

what I know is that you have to separate every piece of the watch and then clean them (normally with a special little washing machine). Of course you have to rebuild it after that and don't forget to applied spécial oil where it is necessary (I suppose you could buy these oil online but be careful of the different type of oil).

No, but i d like to learn it properly. Unfortunately my watchmaker didn t want to learn it to me🤣. Maybe in Fear of lossing money

I love watching the watch repairs on YouTube. But my eyesight is nowhere near good enough.

I can regulate watches and have done so, but servicing a movement is out of my skill level unfortunatly.

I can change my battery. 🤓

Yes, if by service we're counting the ability to swap movements. 😁 I don't have the workspace to accommodate the lighting or the optic equipment I need to rebuild a movement.

I would love to learn. How do you learn this stuff?

No, my watch is too expensive to risk it.

Not interested in servicing my cheaper watches when I can pay a professional to do it for me, or replace the watch if uneconomical.

However, my Mrs is learning & I'm fully supporting her in this endeavour!! 👏🏻👏🏻

I'd love to learn as part of the hobby but not worth the risk to service my own watches . . . I'd probably use DIY kits, buy very cheap watches just for this part of the hobby but never touch my core collection . .. that's for people who have, you know, been training at this as their primary career.

Nope. The only "service" I can do is change straps, adjust bracelets and change batteries. Not that I wouldn't love to have the training.

I can do minor things but no actual movement work. I bought a kit with a Seiko NH34 movement that I am going to learn how to take apart and hopefully put back together and still have it work.

B because D.

When I first became interested in collecting watches, the man who sold a lot of pieces to me suggested that cleaning and oiling simple movements was not challenging if you practiced, he was self taught but clearly a handy guy. Eventually I paid a watchmaker a few hundred dollars to teach me the rudiments from his home workshop where he had developed a boutique service taking work from a network of small watch and jewelry shops. I will not mess with my modern expensive watches but I hear my former teacher is still servicing watches for a living despite his advanced years.

I am making decent progress. I am proficient at assembly and reassembly, but am learning cleaning and oiling. I just finally received my microscope that was on the slow-boat from the east, so I anticipate a jump in progress. I hope to be servicing watches as a side business in the coming years. I am planning on making a watchmakers journey update post after I have my post-op

I like to let professionals do professional work. I have a day job that I’m the professional at 😎

What a f*cking trip, I was thinking the SAME exact thing on my way to work today. We must be on the same wavelength through this app

I can do bits and pieces on watches, including regulation. I once lubricated a revers wheel stem, which was a challenge. However, to correctly service a mechanical watch requires years of training

Option E: No, it's even more expensive than the watch hobby alone.

I've done it a quite few times over the years, but now I've reached the age and size of collection where, apart from a few battery changes, I'm just going to run my watches into the ground and let them stay dead as and when.

Mine usually start out as broken! Some targeted abuse and the occasional profanity helps to revive them. I'm self taught and always learning (YouTube has saved many of my projects!)☺️😉

Quartz ftw! 😂