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Dear all,

After years of just collecting watches Mark has now convinced me that I should have a go at maintenance and trouble shooting as well! The material looks fantastic and I expect to learn a lot here in the community.

I am especially interested in CITIZEN mechanical watches up to 1980. Handwinders, automatics, with or without day/date complications.... Many of the Dutch watchmakers prefer to work on Swiss watches, rather not on vintage Japanese.... I was told by a watch maker that vintages Citizen's were not "intended to be serviced" whatever that may mean. :huh: Will I be able to handle my babies myself in a couple of months? I would very much appreciate to meet up with fellow CITIZEN mechanical enthusiasts here to share knowlegde and admiration.

Have a great weekend,

Bert

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Hi Bert,   welcome.

I have got some mechanical Citizen plus some NOS and used psrts. Some models wind unidirectionally. Good chrono pieces and some special lovely rare models.

My advice for repair would be to make a habbit of taking pictures at each stage of strip down. The pix would come handy since,

 You have your own actual diagrams.

Should there be a need for help, advice , you got pixs to post to give others a chance to see, sometimes the fault are found from just pix. Human mind got less work to do focusing on fixed pix as opposed to motion picture.

Diagrams wont show the fault in the piece you are working on, just a guideline.

If you don,t notice a part flying, pix will show wheather or not it was there in the first place. 

It's a good habbit to get addicted to.

Regards joe

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