So I watch a lot of YouTube videos generally, and it's a good way to get exposed to a lot of different watches.

Especially I enjoy bang for the buck videos, and those have certainly influenced a couple of my purchases. I have a quartz prx, Seagull st13 chrono, pagani design Daytona homage, and an Invicta pro diver automatic all thanks to videos I've seen. I'm very happy with all of those, and I wear them quite regularly.

So not specifically on a person, but I hit the pawn shops around me from time to time and I've come across a fake Seiko Presage, Grand Seiko, and just today a Movado. From a distance it's usually passable, but the moment I pick it up, you can tell somethings wrong. I only told one shop it was a fake since they were super cool, and they immediately looked at each other and exclaimed that they knew it. Apparently they had suspected the Grand Seiko was a fake, but the manager had taken it in as real and they had it listed for like 1200 bucks.

A big tell is when you pull out the crown to set the hands, and there's literally zero resistance to turning. Feels like you're not even turning it.

Awesome info! That tip about the photo of the screws next to the corresponding part, that's gold! Also, yeah definitely going to try and stay away from complications at first!

I'm the same but flipped, I need my Galaxy watch 4 on left wrist and watch of day on right wrist!

Have been doing that for a bit now, and most people don't even notice lol. Only people who have even said anything are the ones where I've actively drawn attention to either watch. Then they're like wait a second....

I just didn't want to have to choose, especially because my work emails and teams messages usually need to be seen right away during business hours.

Thank you everyone! I really appreciate your time to give me some advice!

I will definitely look for both Hamilton and Seiko 7009 movements! Watching a lot of those videos with the more complicated movements is a bit daunting, so starting simple is VERY appealing!

I'm going to take photos, and I'll probably also set up a camera to record video as well, will take a lot longer to go through afterwards, but might catch an important detail!

Also, one of the things I know I'm going to struggle with, is how in the hell do I keep track of the screws, like which one goes where? For electronics I've used numbered parts trays that I drop them into as I go, then I just work backwards for assembly. I guess that could work here as well? Do I need to be cleaning the screws as well typically?

I hope to be joining the vintage crew this year, starting my watch making journey, and by the Summer, I'd like to have purchased and refurbished a watch for my own collection!

I've replaced the capacitors in two Seiko Kinetics now, one older one, and one newer one. Both were the same process and there's really two places where you can run into trouble. One is removing the rotor. That screw is tiny, and the slot was small enough I literally had to sharpen my smallest screwdrivers head, so that it would fit. Fortunately there's usually not a lot of torque on those, because I'm told if you press too hard on the screw it can damage the second hand gearing.

The second is the insulator strip, it's shaped very specifically and it's likely going to be different than the one that's already in there, so make sure to use the new one. There are locator pins on the movement to help you get it in place. Take your time, breath through your nose, and watch a video or two and you can easily manage it. 

This video appears to be your same watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1fCRTL3LXU

Also, my local watchmaker quoted about 60 bucks to do it, hour of labor and 25 bucks for part. Ended up doing it myself, but that should give you an idea.