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5 hours ago, Nucejoe said:

Hi Frankie, welcome to WRT forum.

Will you also tell  about your tech/ watchrepair background and ambition in horology. 

Regards

I have just finished a foundation course last year and will take watchrepair as a hobby.

Frankie

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On 4/5/2022 at 3:22 AM, grsnovi said:

Thanks for the intro Frankie Lee, 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.

Are you planning to do work on watches?

Hello grsnovi, I am working on my friend's fake Franck Muller but damaged the incabloc spring, need to get replacement.😅

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10 hours ago, FM2 said:

...fake Franck Muller but damaged the incabloc spring, need to get replacement.😅

I guess that's one of the downsides to "fakes" - they're not built using the same quality parts as the real thing. I'm too new at this to tell you much about finding one-off parts. Most professionals seem to have hundreds of watches they use for parts and/or bags of spare screws and the like. Your best bet might be to find a movement that you can cannibalize.

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