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I am new to horology although I have spent a fair amount of time studying horology over the past 6 months including completing Mark's course. I am a recently semi retired eye specialist having performed complex eye surgery for over three decades so looking forward to this new and very interesting challenge. I have purchased a lot of nice equipment but am waiting for completion of a new home before I am able to set up my workshop. My interest includes both vintage wrist and pocket watches and my plan also includes micro machining - turning, milling of watch parts. I also intend to use my equipment to service and repair microsurgery eye instruments. On an aside given my background I will be using a stereo microscope. I look forward to participating on the forum. Below is an example of the work I did in my previous life - corneal transplant.

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Hello DrJ, 

 Being a corneal surgeon your likely to have heard of Dr Khodadoust, opthalmologist.

A relative of mine, said to be one of the best world wide, left behind his hospital "  Khodadoust hospital". 

If I was to watch you guys tear into an eye, I'd probably faint. 

Welcome to WRT forum. 

 

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, DrJ said:

I am new to horology although I have spent a fair amount of time studying horology over the past 6 months including completing Mark's course. I am a recently semi retired eye specialist having performed complex eye surgery for over three decades so looking forward to this new and very interesting challenge. I have purchased a lot of nice equipment but am waiting for completion of a new home before I am able to set up my workshop. My interest includes both vintage wrist and pocket watches and my plan also includes micro machining - turning, milling of watch parts. I also intend to use my equipment to service and repair microsurgery eye instruments. On an aside given my background I will be using a stereo microscope. I look forward to participating on the forum. Below is an example of the work I did in my previous life - corneal transplant.

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Hello DJ. Welcome. Truly amazing what you do. My wife's  uncle is a fantastic plastic surgeon.  Your hands must be without question rock steady. I'd love to hear how you prepared yourself before you begun any procedures if at all needed, your mindset, things you did to steady your hands etc.This would be really helpful for any beginners with nerves.

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Thank you for the welcomes. I understand that this is a horology and not an eye forum but I have something that would be of special interest to Nucejoe and his family. Attached is a photo I have used in teaching to demonstrate a rejection line in a corneal transplant that is referred to as a Khoudadoust line. Something for your relatives to be proud of.(0015)__23-02-1963_.jpg.72708d274459c26493849b9a34f02006.jpg

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 Delighted to make your acquaintance Doc, wish you health and success in your invaluable expertise of training eye surgens. 

Regards   

Joe

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23 hours ago, DrJ said:

Thank you for the welcomes. I understand that this is a horology and not an eye forum but I have something that would be of special interest to Nucejoe and his family. Attached is a photo I have used in teaching to demonstrate a rejection line in a corneal transplant that is referred to as a Khoudadoust line. Something for your relatives to be proud of.(0015)__23-02-1963_.jpg.72708d274459c26493849b9a34f02006.jpg

Welcome to the forum @DrJ.

I'm sure many of us here would love to have a sub-forum on ophthalmology with you as the chairperson.

Many of us have eye problems and questions about optical instruments. 

Let me start by asking you what kind of magnification device would you recommend for watch repair work?

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Hello Hector. Thanks for the question and I am certainly happy to try give advice or an opinion. For close to 37 years I have performed eye surgery with operating microscopes - this provides both good and variable magnification and using both eyes allows for good stereoscopic vision (depth perception). Using a loupe with one eye (monocular vision) there is loss of depth perception. Both eyes are required to achieve excellent (or even very basic) depth perception. I would be impossible to perform eye or any delicate surgery without this fine depth perception. Also with a microscope and a work surface that is well positioned one can work in a more natural and upright position as apposed to using a loupe. Personally with my background I would never be able to manage with a loupe and in fact would not pursue the hobby if this was my only option. If you follow the excellent Chronoglide YouTube channel you will notice that they have switched over to stereo microscopes. We used to operate with $200 000 Zeiss microscopes but obviously this is not an option. Unfortunately I sold my very nice Zeiss scope but it was heavy to transport and I also wanted a system with good video/camera so I will be purchasing an Amscope with a 20 megapixel camera. The model I am looking at has a good working distance (200mm/8 inches which is similar to our operating microscopes). Probably the most useful magnification will be in the 2.5 - 10x range. These consumer microscopes are very reasonable cost wise and although there will be a bit of a learning curve your work will be far more comfortable and enjoyable.  Finally using the microscope in the attached photo I opened up my grandfathers pocket watch which I inherited - see photos. Anyway looking at it through the microscope I was sold and made the decision to pursue this as a hobby. My grandfather would have likely purchased this watch in Lithuania or Latvia but unfortunately I have not been able to identify it.  Regards,  Jeffrey

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Welcome to the forum @DrJ

Well, the best thing is you certainly will have the steady hands thing all sorted out.

That and working under a microscope.

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