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How many have you ruined?
- Thread starter tbandy
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Shit, my cheapo plastic penny watch almost fell to the ground. I’m going to have to replace yet another strap
a friend of mine gave me some dead watches to open and uncase. I’ll work on them as well as others from my watch graveyard.
a friend of mine gave me some dead watches to open and uncase. I’ll work on them as well as others from my watch graveyard.
Well considering I have ten thumbs and a hammer is my main tool, I can reasonably say the bin has been very impressed with the shiny things that end up in there.
Incidentally, I have two sets of parts waiting at my door for my two latest ruined ones.
One a2836 when my tool slipped into the balance spring during beat error regulation
Not skilled enough yet to change just the hairspring, so ordered a full balance wheel assembly.
At least a five shitty PE50 but not really my fault as they were really bad and I could not bear shipping a watch with them, so I binned them.
An old Vostok movement that I took apart for service and never managed to make work…because it had at least 3 shims due to shitty tolerances
One NH35 a few months ago trying to make the BlancPain Swatch metal mod. Improvised DWO was too thick. I killed the calendar works…this is how I learned that the NH35 had plastic gears in it
One G10.212 a moment of distraction and I snapped a subdial post
One case where I drilled a second lughole, because I was too lazy to bolt it down and I thought I could freehand it
One sapphire crystal when I don’t even know how I managed to scratch it. It gets some doing to scratch sapphire
Several hands sets where I forgot it in the oxidizing mix
… I remember in shame every single one of them.
Plus those I managed to fix, where it’s a bittersweet mixture of immense frustration and some pride too.
Not skilled enough yet to change just the hairspring, so ordered a full balance wheel assembly.
At least a five shitty PE50 but not really my fault as they were really bad and I could not bear shipping a watch with them, so I binned them.
An old Vostok movement that I took apart for service and never managed to make work…because it had at least 3 shims due to shitty tolerances
One NH35 a few months ago trying to make the BlancPain Swatch metal mod. Improvised DWO was too thick. I killed the calendar works…this is how I learned that the NH35 had plastic gears in it
One G10.212 a moment of distraction and I snapped a subdial post
One case where I drilled a second lughole, because I was too lazy to bolt it down and I thought I could freehand it
One sapphire crystal when I don’t even know how I managed to scratch it. It gets some doing to scratch sapphire
Several hands sets where I forgot it in the oxidizing mix
… I remember in shame every single one of them.
Plus those I managed to fix, where it’s a bittersweet mixture of immense frustration and some pride too.
Yeah I must confess over the years I've ruined at least 50 watches, but although the successes are still only in single figures each sucess is a pleasure.
My successes only really started thanks to reading lots on RWI, so a big thank you for that fellas
My successes only really started thanks to reading lots on RWI, so a big thank you for that fellas
