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Hi All, I'm Gene Cockrell from Killeen in the great state of Texas. I'm fairly new to the hobby of tinkering with clocks and watches but do have a couple of successful projects under my belt at this point. Looking forward to opening up a couple of old selfwinder Omegas for a cleaning and lubrication some day once I get some experience on simpler things...

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