What time is it? Watches and horology

I'm sure you'll be fine, dude, they are slow but I reckon they'll fix you up... Would echo what other people have said about contacting them on the phone, definitely worth a punt...

@NurseHolliday enjoy your honeymoon and married life!
A broken watch is shit, but a happy marriage is awesome.

For the record, if anyone gets water in their watch, get it opened as soon as you can and dry it out.

This is true.

I dropped my transformer watch down the bog in infants.

Put it in the airing cupboard. Good as new.

in infants?!?!?

transformer watch?!?!

Peeeeeedddooooo.

Dibs on Op-turd-mas Prime watch

I was a 7 year old pedo.

Whaat? I had a toy identical to that but without the LCD... Just a plain grey panel.

I feel hard done by now...

Jesus. Have a word wit yo oldz.

Mine was white.

Gah. Have been (slowly) working on a movement for a while. Managed to snap the guard pin off the pallet fork. Took me ages to find a replacement part. Arrived today.

Somehow I have managed to magnetise the movement so that the pallet fork doesn't move freely. Time to buy a degausser!

Just spoke to Steinhart on the phone, they asked me to send it back to them and one of the watchmakers will have a look. So far, so good.

They did ask me to unscrew the crown to allow water to escape, but it's already evaporated leaving nice salt deposits on the minute and hour hands. Who knows what it looks like on the mechanism?

Rusty.

See if you can get the back inscribed with a date or message of a kind, this way they might be more inclined to repair yours than just take one off the shelf and say "here you go nursey" assuming the sentimental view is still looming.

So easy to break parts. And so easy to lose too. I dropped an hour hand for a Buren WWW military watch the other week and it went between the floorboards :-(

When I was practising on my first movement I spent two days looking for a part that I thought had pinged off into the carpet but actually turned out to be in the parts tray all along but too small for me to see without a loupe.

Well, too small for my inexperienced eyes to spot anyway. I'm a lot more used to working on that scale now.

At the Epping a Horology School they have the benches set right up at shoulder level. I always thought you should have the desk up high, but didnt realise it would be that high. Makes sense if you are using a loupe with a 3" focal length.

Whats the new project Stonehedge?

Hope that is sitting? :oP

Just fiddling with a non working ETA 2824-2. It's nearly working now. Just waiting for my degausser to arrive. Not sure how I magnetised it.

Does anybody have a Seiko SKX007/SKX013 for sells or would let me try on? Not too sure which size to go for and want to avoid that dinner plate/Argos look.

*coughs*

I have a 007 if you want to pop by