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Hi there,

my background is non-technical. When I was about 20 years old I ruined a wristwatch given to me on my 18th birthday due to a complete lack of knowledge and skill paired with plenty of youthful arrogance and overbearingness. Sigh! Ever since then I have always wanted to make good on that, just never had the time. Life has fast-forwarded to 65 and I will soon have some time at disposal  (I hope). I have found that the hobby holds a fascination for me and I sincerely want to give it a try. Please consider me a newbie.

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15 hours ago, Kevin1958 said:

When I was about 20 years old I ruined a wristwatch given to me on my 18th birthday due to a complete lack of knowledge and skill paired with plenty of youthful arrogance and overbearingness. Sigh!

Congratulations you learned one of the most important lessons In watch repair when not to work on something. Then you have another characteristic of a watchmaker remembering the mistake all these years later. Now hopefully that will keep you from making any more mistakes like this. But don't worry this is watch repair there will be other issues to deal with there always is. Despite what the YouTube videos show watch repair isn't always easy but it's definitely fun most of the time.

Welcome to the group

 

 

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