New member introduction

[GHmnr]

Hello everyone.  I am new to this forum and am I am new to hobby watch repair.  I live in Panama.  I am retired.

For now I am mostly interested in manual wind watches.  Most of the watches I have are fairly new.  I have experience taking a caliber 6497 movement apart and lubricating and reassembling.  I tore up a few movements.  I have watched hundreds of you tube video watch repair videos.  This is over the last several years.  I purchased my basic watch repair tools on Aliexpress.  I have a lot of Chinese watches.  Manual type.  Common manual movements.  I like them.  

I like the Seagull ST5 for example.  And, the Citizen Caliber 1800.  These are both simple manual wind movements.  

Recently I bought a couple of vintage watches.  They are not here yet.  One is a Seagull ST5 from the early 80s.  The other is a Citizen 21 jewel 1800 manual wind watch which is very similar to the HMT 0132 movement.

I am going to need some help most likely in the future.  I have no experience with snap on cases for example.  Or, installing acrylic crystals.

So I am here to learn.

Thank you in advance for welcoming me to the forum.

 

 

 

[RichardHarris123]

Hello and welcome from Leeds, England. 

[Nucejoe]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

[rossjackson01]

Welcome from across the pond.

You will get help from many of the members. No question is to small. We all learn from the answers.

Any chance of some photographs of your 'liked' items?

[GHmnr]

Thank you for the welcome.  I have a difficult time taking decent photos of my watches so I have sort of given up on it.  I need to work on that.  

This is the Ebay photo of the Seagull ST5 I purchased.  It is not here yet.  It has a modern dial on it.  I bought it from a vendor in China.  I believe this watch was made in early 80s.  It has the striped movement in it.

I am waiting on several other watches to arrive also.  This is an old Citizen Homer date from the 60s.  It does not run.  I would like very much to get this watch and try and bring it back to running condition.  As I said, I am interested in manual wind watches.  I think this is a good one.