Hello Everyone

[johnny]

My name is Johnny.  I am from Atlantic, Canada

I had an interest in watches since I was very young.  I took a couple on-line classes and purchased enough tools to be able to disassemble, clean, oil and reassemble old watches.  I  bought some good watches in poor conditions from a friendly pawn shop in Halifax.  I also purchased many various movements from dash-2 - great for replacement parts too.   I find it very satisfying to bring those old forgotten marvel of engineering back to life. 

Also I find it very relaxing - almost Zen - working on those delicate movements. 

 

I recently discovered your videos and find them all awesome. 

many thanks for your sharing.

I hope to learn something and help someone here in this forum.

 

Johnny

[WillFly]

Hi Johnny - welcome to the Forum! Lots of knowledge and advice here. I usually sit back and drink it in, being a novice - but I do love my watches!

[autowind]

Hi Johnny,

                  You are right about watches having Zen like qualities,  when working on a watch the outside world disappears and you have entered another world.  It's very satisfying getting a long stopped and forgotten watch back to running order,  so that it can live another day.  There are plenty of experts on the forums to answer any of your questions.

[Geo]

Hi Johnny welcome to our horological community. I liked your excellent introduction.

[Mark]

Hi Johnny, welcome to the forum :)

[imexian]

Hi, I would love to be able to spend some time breathing life into a neglected watch, unfortunately I'm not a allowed much time to learn or practice!, but I do enjoy the videos and the write ups of people that have expertise to do this. Keep me entertained!! Thanks to all the watch experts on this site.

Ian