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Hello all,

Complete noob here and after going from never even wearing a watch, to finding an interest in old watches to now looking at restoring vintage watches as part of a hobby to get me away from work/TV etc.

I fix telecoms equipment for a living and have done for 30 plus years (it is now pretty much swaptronics and the skill level is nothing like it used to be).

I'm slowly going through fleamarkets, 2nd hand and antique stores looking for watches i can at least take apart and put back together, even if I don't get it working.

 

I'll be lurking around the site for many months looking for ideas and info.

 

Thanks for the add.

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Thanks for the intro @stelyn27, welcome to the WRT forum! I'm also relatively new and I'm in the middle of my first service of an Elgin Grade 313 movement.

I suspect searching at antique stores would be a better way of finding examples to practice on rather than trawling ebay.

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