romanschatz

Roman
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Forgotten watch

First time working on a quartz watch. Replaced the battery terminal, oiled the movement and gave the case a light polish. This Swiss made watch had be...
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My latest projects.

For the past two weeks I’ve been honing my basic skills on these handful of Swiss watches. All serviced and running well again. Onto the next project....
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It’s a Unicorn

Two years in the making. When I started this watch making hobby, I promised myself to fix this Unicorn watch when my skill and confidence levels were...
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Recent Comments

commented on romanschatz's WRUW ·

Thank you. The watch has a very short story with me. Bought of eBay as a non runner.

commented on It’s a Unicorn ·

A brown leather strap with white stitching is incoming.

commented on It’s a Unicorn ·

Basically lots of YouTube tutorials and practice on cheap movements. Long way to go yet but it’s fun and rewarding hobby.

commented on Wish me luck ·

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I’m in Australia now but grew up in Switzerland. I have it easy I guess.

commented on Ping ·

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commented on Seiko 66A ·

I don’t have a timegrapher but so far it’s running fine. Onto the case work next.

More posts

Welcome back

The Owix lives again. I completed striped the movement, cleaned and oiled it. The case and glass have been left original with minimal polishing. Waiti...
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Wish me luck

A new project has arrived, bought cheaply of flebay as a non runner. This is the kinda stuff I was hoping to do when I got into this hobby. Let’s see...
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Ping

I pinged a cannon pinion of my donor movement two days ago. Was down on my knees for an hour but no luck. Today I made this ‘tool’ and found it within...
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Seiko 66A

I’m fairly new to watch making/restoring. Today I’ve successfully finished rebuilding my first Seiko (a recent market find). It’s such a good feeling...
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Vintage Seiko

The local flea market has been good to me. Found these today and I’m looking forward to restoring them. Including a 1960 birth year hand wound Seiko.
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It’s alive.

This watch belonged to my late wife’s great uncle. It’s been sitting in a box for years, apparently just waiting for me to take up this mad hobby. I’m...
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Future classic

Grandson made me buy it. I could only encourage such behaviour.
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