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Hi everyone. I'm Adam from NY. First of all, I have to thank Mark for helping me to work up the courage to do my first real repair about a year ago. I mean, I geek out over his videos as crazy as that may sound. We all have a watch 'journey'. Mine started about 10 years ago as a fan of military-style watches which led me to the FIRST watch - a Seiko SNX425K - 7S26A. This was followed by countless others. It wasn't until a couple of years ago at a new job that I met someone who is not only a collector but an enthusiast who opened my eyes to a lot of the history. Since then we've gone through several phases together in our collections: Automatics, Mechanicals, Electronics, Tuning Forks, LED, LCD, Sapphire Crystals...(!) We've spent almost a portion of every single work day, discussing watches to some extent - to the point where every morning we ask each other "what do you have on today?". People around us just roll their eyes. Of course a key enabler to all of this is Ebay. It wasn't until a year or so ago that I started to see the potential in '4U2FIX' watches. I thought to myself - "I can fix them an resell them - yeah!" (of course the selling rarely happens). Since I'm a tinkerer in general, and I do my own repair of just about everything including Automotive, Electric, Plumbing, Carpentry, why not Watch Repair? Slowly I filled my tackle box with the tools of the trade as I did a crystal removal here, a battery change, or a movement swap there. It was time to do a real tear-down, clean, oil and timing job. I had this crazy idea that I would specialize in bringing back ESA 9154 transistorized movements to life. Well frankly I'm not a patient person and I can say that when I first started it was the absolute most frustrating endeavor I've ever gone through. I killed at least two movements. I wanted to cry. I wanted to quit. It was like a bad game of "Operation" trying to keep parts from pinging all over the place. Eventually, I brought back one (YES!), then two...and the list goes on. I think I got through that crucial first phase wiser for the wear - and I'm still repairing watches. I always had questions that I was kind of afraid to ask, but I think it's time I joined the conversation. Hopefully I can add a little something to this watch repair 'movement'. -A