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I'm a security researcher with a federal contractor. I basically look for exploitable flaws in systems. My specialty is embedded and control systems. I also have some background in nuclear physics as one of the big tasks I work is assessment of nuclear systems. The education really helps getting my foot into the door to look at systems they wouldn't normally allow access to.

As for background I'm a former US Navy submariner who served a tour on a fast attack boat and then became a rider which means a specialist who went to boats as needed. I worked in unmanned vehicles and submersibles after that. I was selected for the cyberwarfare rating and did that for the rest of my Navy career. I've been mostly contracting since then.

As a kid I use to take just about anything I could get my hands on apart. One particular fascination, much to my family's dismay, was clocks. I was responsible for many old windup alarm clock's death. I'm never satisfied with just having something as I have a bit of a drive to know how things work. It's been confined to electronics mostly down to individual transistors and logic gates which is why I work with embedded systems.

I'm here because I have a fascination with mechanical watches. I own two, a Seiko 5, and a Maratac GPT-2. The GPT-2 has a Miyota 9015 movement and is mostly well behaved though I'd like to get the +10 sec/day down to at least half that.  The Seiko 5 is a bit of a mess. I bought a new one to act as a daily beater and used a phone app with a microphone to get a basic look at it. It's at a bit over -22 sec/day and has a 3ms beat error. My initial goal is to be able to regulate my own watches then to be able to service or repair them.

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Hello Spook and Welcome to the Forum.

There are some good videos by Mark on correcting beat errors and regulating your watch and lots of postings to trace through.  I am sure that if in a spot of bother you will get help here, at least parts for a Seiko 5 are quite available so you can get stuck in there.

Cheers,

Vic

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I don't know how the extent of the horological community is in DC but we have a pretty good one in the York-Lancaster, PA area.  Here's a link.  We have monthly meetings (except June-July-August):

http://www.awci.com/event/central-guild-of-the-watchmakers-clockmakers-association-of-pennsylvania-meeting/?instance_id=142

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