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  1. Your Projects, Walkthroughs and Techniques

    Post descriptive walkthroughs of watches you have stripped down and serviced and/or repaired, parts you have made or techniques you wish to share.

    This is an interesting section where we post our challenges and how we have over-come them. You can also post walkthroughs and share your techniques.

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  2. Watch Repairs Help & Advice

    If you are a new member, we would consider it polite for you to introduce yourself here before posting your questions ;)

    Need help with your watch repair? Then post your watch repair questions here. Photographs allowed and encouraged. Please UP vote the most useful answers and if someone has helped you, don't forget to click 'like' on their post.

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  3. Watch Repair Tools & Equipment

    Discuss watch repair tools and equipment here. Show off your new tools or discuss care and tool maintenance.

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  4. Watch Repair Gallery   (16,280 visits to this link)

    Post an interesting snapshot of what you are working on. Wether you are a pro photographer, or taking snaps on your phone, it does not matter - we love watch movements and we want to see them and talk about them.

  5. Clock Corner

    Post all things relating to clocks in this forum. Yes this is a watch forum, but we still love all things that go tick and that includes clocks.

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    • wls1971
      H.Nathan & Co

      By wls1971 · Posted

      H.Nathan and co where part of a group of companies owned by the Australian company called Hoffnung and Co their buisness was primarily based around the importing and sale of goods through catalogue they where importers among other things of sewing machines and parts, and Swiss and American watches and all forms of gold and silver jewellery and display cases for retail jewellers. They where a very large concern and supplied goods in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania , Fiji and Honolulu and had huge warehouses across Australia. H.Nathan and Co was the company's London based subsiduary they where responsible for purchasing goods in Europe and America and arranging the importation to Australia they would have been responsible for the purchasing and importation of your watch, they would not have been the manufacturer of your watch as such but would have sourced them from manufacturers in Switzerland and stamped them with the company name, the earliest reference to Hoffnung and co I can Find is 1872. I think they would have been the Australian equivalent of Sear's Roebuck catalogue in America. Just to add to the above since writing this I have learned the company was formed in 1851 and went out of buisness in 1980.
    • oldhippy
      Date ring e clip size NH36, 7S26 etc

      By oldhippy · Posted

      Can you post the link and I'll try and help you.
    • oldhippy
      Clock competition

      By oldhippy · Posted

      Yes that is correct. Looking at this photo you can see which strike side would operate the hammers. They would also need the springs to be the right force to run together, to compensate this the two hammers are lighter than the single one.
    • Nucejoe
      Power réserve - looking for infos

      By Nucejoe · Posted

      Some useful sites in case you havn,t visited so far. Julesborel.com Eternaltools.com OldSwissWatches.com Most recommended source is cousinesuk. Yes manufacturers recommend routine M/S replacement. Manual winding gives you an idea how well the spring feels, to say the least eliminates selfwinding mech form diagnostic guestimation. Joe  
    • StuartBaker104
      Clock competition

      By StuartBaker104 · Posted

      Can anyone explain why there are 3 winding barrels to achieve this? Are there 2 separate striking trains?
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