Greetings from the Caribbean

[ChevyS]

Hello all,

I am from Trinidad and Tobago, the southern most islands in the Caribbean archipelago.

I have been a watch lover from ever since I could remember and for years I wanted to learn watchmaking.

This year I decided to take the plunge! For the last month I've been practicing disassembly and reassembly of a Seiko NH36 movment. My first attempt took most of the day but the movment was working and gave the same readings on the timegrapher as it did before it was disassembled. However on my second attempt when I placed it on the timegrapher all I saw was "snow" on the display. It took me a while to figure it out but I broke a pivot on the pallet fork. Once I replaced the pallet fork with a new part it worked perfectly fine. I've  been practicing everyday since then and could now strip and reassemble this movment in a timely manner without having to loom at any reference materials.

I received my lubricants and oilers yesterday so this week I would be cleaning and practicing lubricating the movment properly, using the timegrapher to measure the quality of my work.

I also have a ST2130 coming in so that I could gain experience servicing the ETA 2824-2 movments and its various clones.

Anyway this introduction is already quite tooo long. I will add this, I dont know why I waited for so long to pursue this!

Chevy