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Hello Friends.  I am a watch enthusiast, collector, and fixer.  I appreciate all types, manual, automatic, and electronic.  My particular interests, and representative examples from my collection, are;  24-hour movements (Longines Heritage Navigator, Glycine Airman, Zodiac Jet, Lum-Tec, Gruen Airflight), alarm watches (Vulcain Cricket, Mido MaticAlarm, Tissot Sonorous), men's watches from the 1940's (Oris, Bulova, Wyler, Invar,  Universal Geneve, Elgin), watches with unusual displays (slow watch, Svallbard, NoWatch, led-binary display), high-accuracy quartz (The Citizen Chronometer, Bulova Precisionist, Longines VHP).  My first watch, a high-school graduation present from my Father (1971, Bainbridge Island High School in Washington State) was a Wyler Incaflex 660 Lifeguard.  My first luxury watch was an Omega Seamaster, and my latest purchase is the Longines Spirit Zulu GMT.  I service most of my watches, being self-taught through books and videos.  The feeling of observing the inner workings of a watch through the loupe while working on it is fantastic, having all your attention focussed on the little world in front of you.  I experienced a stroke in 2016, so my watchmaking is primarily done one-handed from my wheelchair. I am a retired printer, and my wife is a retired librarian.  We live in with our dogs in Port Townsend, Washington.  Best regards to you all, Drew Elicker

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3 hours ago, DrewE said:

Hello Friends.  I am a watch enthusiast, collector, and fixer.  I appreciate all types, manual, automatic, and electronic.  My particular interests, and representative examples from my collection, are;  24-hour movements (Longines Heritage Navigator, Glycine Airman, Zodiac Jet, Lum-Tec, Gruen Airflight), alarm watches (Vulcain Cricket, Mido MaticAlarm, Tissot Sonorous), men's watches from the 1940's (Oris, Bulova, Wyler, Invar,  Universal Geneve, Elgin), watches with unusual displays (slow watch, Svallbard, NoWatch, led-binary display), high-accuracy quartz (The Citizen Chronometer, Bulova Precisionist, Longines VHP).  My first watch, a high-school graduation present from my Father (1971, Bainbridge Island High School in Washington State) was a Wyler Incaflex 660 Lifeguard.  My first luxury watch was an Omega Seamaster, and my latest purchase is the Longines Spirit Zulu GMT.  I service most of my watches, being self-taught through books and videos.  The feeling of observing the inner workings of a watch through the loupe while working on it is fantastic, having all your attention focussed on the little world in front of you.  I experienced a stroke in 2016, so my watchmaking is primarily done one-handed from my wheelchair. I am a retired printer, and my wife is a retired librarian.  We live in with our dogs in Port Townsend, Washington.  Best regards to you all, Drew Elicker

Good on you Drew for doing what you enjoy, in a handicapped position and making possible for yourself what for anyone is a difficult hobby . 👍

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