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Servicing Vintage Watches. Holy Shit, the Cost!

Reached out to a week respected watchmaker. Was thinking local, but my neighbor told me to think of the watchmaker at Cincinnati Watch Company, so I e...
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Helbros 1950ish
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Aviator "F-Series" Watch: Battery change, Black Strap Repair & other Brown Strap options?

Got this Aviator watch as a gift, it’s been sitting inside due to this strap thing and post pandemic I just came across it needing some love. Likely n...
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Help Me build a Frankenwatch!

Need some help from the crunchmodders. I’ve got this cool Lord Elgin Aquamaster case and dial. I’d like to put a replacement automatic movement, stem,...
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Repaired

Did some battery swaps for my fathers 92 year old friend and found a new moment for his Microma which was dead. That one was hard to find. Apparently...
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When you are a hobbyist watch maker, your friends give you watches to fix, this beautiful chronograph loves with me until I fix the bracelet
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SOS!!!!

Anyone know how to remove the sapphire from this 1963 Seagull so I can put the subdial hand back on myself and not have to find a watch repair shop? I...
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Watch Repair in Bay Area California? 🌁 🔧🪛

Hey community! Wanted to see if anyone knows of a good watch repair shop in the San Francisco Bay Area? I have a Citizen Eagle 7 automatic that seems...
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Another 40+ year old soviet watch

This beauty belongs to my mother-in-law. She has not worn it in over 30 years. Still works, but not well. Beat error is too high, about 10ms, and the...
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Scenes from my first watch “repair”

I got this Citizen Quartz on eBay last year and it came with the silver dial in picture 2. However, when it arrived the date window frame had fallen o...
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