Watch repair here I come!
I just received all my equipment and tools for some basic repairs. Im really excited to start my journey into horology.
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Hello! Im new to collecting watches and also new to horology and im glad to have a community to discuss these things with.
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I started last month. Best advice I've heard is get something new and simple to start. A ST36 movement is $35. If you can service and get the same amplitude or better than when you started, its a success.
Off camera I have a moment holder and some gloves but yeah a timegrapher would be a good next purchase.
Looks as if we purchased almost exactly the same stuff. I played with some <$20 eBay vintage stuff. I spent more on tools than watches! 😅
Will you use the cannon pinion remover to remove hands? (I did opposite. Bought hand removal levers and used those to lift cannon pinion.)
Looks as if we purchased almost exactly the same stuff. I played with some <$20 eBay vintage stuff. I spent more on tools than watches! 😅
Will you use the cannon pinion remover to remove hands? (I did opposite. Bought hand removal levers and used those to lift cannon pinion.)
Lol that tends to happen.
Buy those Seagull ST3600 movements to practice on!
Lol that tends to happen.
I may get brave enough to try one of my Vostoks. Also have an AliExpress Tandorio with NH35 when I feel really ready.
Good luck!
Buy those Seagull ST3600 movements to practice on!
I got an old timex 0 jewels wind up movement im going to work on. But for future reference I’ll consider it!
I may get brave enough to try one of my Vostoks. Also have an AliExpress Tandorio with NH35 when I feel really ready.
Good luck!
Thanks!
I wish that I had the proper vision and steadiness of hand to do that - congratulations, and best of luck.
I want to start also. Do you have a list of what you have and where you got it ?
First of all, get some defective movements or other mechanisms with small screws just to test the screwdrivers tips. If they are not good quality, the tip shatters when undoing a stubborn screw and spreads tiny metal bits into the movement. You definitely don't want that. I learned it the hard way, so be careful.
Good luck!
Yeah I couldn’t end up getting it out of the case and it pissed me off a bit so I started working on something else.