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Here's my two cents (which, owing to inflation and all, isn't worth a plugged nickel). Use your naked eye for what you can. If you need more, use one of those jeweler's headband magnifiers. To get in closer, use a 3x, 4x, 10x loupe. To get down to the nitty-gritty (hairsprings, roller jewels, etc) use a 20x loupe or resort to a microscope. The more the power, the closer you have to get to your work and the more distortion you'll have around the edges. My eyeballs are older than Accutrons, so I use a 10x loupe as pretty much a standard practice. No matter what you use, be sure to have some fun with this rewarding hobby!

Surgical eye loupes are great if you can get use to the working distance and low magnification they don't usually have a zoom feature. I personally use a B&L stereo microscope. I use a 8x loupe occasionally like 10% of the time, but I much prefer my stereoscope which i can use at anything between 3x and 75x magnification all while not having my face directly in the movement. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That is a beauty indeed. Watch out not to push the pedal too hard...

Congratulations on your new car, Brian. It's a beauty! I'm not all that knowledgeable about cars, so I can't discuss the merits of your new baby properly. But in my ignorance, I am happy for you anyway. I gave my nephew my 1998 Honda Civic and bought a 2016 Toyota Corolla last year, and I was pretty doggone excited about it. However, my excitement came from knowing I could get in the car and drive across Texas (around 1000 miles) with no worries about breaking down and for less gas money than you would probably spend on an oil change for your new Carrera. It has cruise control, a good radio and plenty of trunk space. That and the gas mileage are all that I require of it. The Bluetooth was a bonus I never thought about, but one that has come in handy. But then, I am a retired grandmother, so I see things through different spectacles... bifocal spectacles... and a loupe. The bottom line is, congratulations! Shirley

Wearing a HMT 'Slim' handwind today. It's from India (HMT is an Indian watch manufacturer) and it's a new watch for around USD20 plus shipping. DIal is an orangey salmon pink, not usually my first choice but I was attracted to the simple design. Even though its advertised as slim, its not really slim.. I figure its about 8mm thick, but it wears thin because of the case design. The movement is based on the Citizen 0200 series movement, even the Citizen 'parashock' is used but the retaining jewel's mount is not as 'glossy' as on an original Citizen! Textured dial n Citizen ancestry is visible but the finishing is not a patch on the original, pretty co**BLEEP** actually. I'm pretty sure dials will swap across, actual parts like wheels may not. Will probably try it one day. Its a chrome plated case so it may not last as long as a Stainless steel one but as an occasional watch watch it should be fine as long as I wipe it down with a wet tissue after putting it away. Performance wise it's fine, I strapped it on Monday morning and 24 hours later its pretty much spot on, thanks to that big balance! Good value in my opinion. Anilv

Its Chinese in origin do a search for a st6d automatic, who makes them I dont know but they are found in countless Rolex knock offs

Out for a meal with the Rotary Editions, oh and the Mrs as well. A nice performing watch even with its Chinese movement . Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

Does your impulse jewel rest centrally between the banking pins of the pallet fork when the watch is at rest the best way to check is to remove the pallet fork replace the balance and check. Mark has a video on the subject.

Great walk through helps a lot

So a new day is upon us and today is the day for something a little different. Today I chose a Dynasty Jump hour watch, I think these are possibly the manual forerunner to quartz digital watches.

Yes I figured it out thanks as the attach option was hidden in the "More Options" section. I'm not used to this particular forum software but will soon get used to it. I'm interested in more or less all kinds of watches, mostly mechanical analog watches but the 1970's LED and LCD watches are kind of fun too which was why I chose to wear that one yesterday. I was never a fan of them at the time but have grown to like them more over the years. You don't see many of them around anymore, especially on someone's wrist! and so it seemed appropriate to wear it. As it is now a new day, a new watch was called for and the pick of te day is a slightly tidier retro Jules Jurgenson Quartz watch.

Here we go, the max filesize is stated as being 200mb, however it is actually 2mb so I have resized the original image.