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NMarsh

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My names Nathan. Pretty new to the hobby as a whole. I recently inherited a few mechanical movements, which kind of sent me down this slippery slope of trying to fix watches. I am still early on in my learning, but I have gotten to the point I can take a working movement apart and put it back together and it still works. I have found so much useful information in this forum, I figured it was time for me to sign up and add a little content. I already have a million questions brewing, but I will save those for another post, if I can't dig up the answer on here first. I'll just go ahead and say thank you ahead of time to all those that take the time to add so much information to this site. 

A little more about me outside of watches. I am a 3rd year medical student, still unsure of what I want to do with my life. You would think after 7 years of school I would have some idea what I want to do. Other than watches, I enjoy woodworking, fishing, and just about any other "meaningless" task to get my mind off of school. I am recently married, and together we have a boisterous little beagle named Lucy. 

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I appreciate the welcoming words. 

@oldhippy do you primarily just work with mechanical clocks or do you also work with electrical? I have a beautiful Hammond Gregory "Skyscraper" circa 1930's. Unfortunately it looks like it is the 50htz version and not the 60 htz, so it will likely run a few minutes fast each day if my memory serves me right. 

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12 minutes ago, dadistic said:

Greetings and Salutations!

The fine motor skills developed by practicing horology could help with becoming a sturgeon surgeon.

Good luck!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

Surgery was an incredibly interesting rotation. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. However, I didn't enjoy getting to the hospital at 0430 every morning and leaving at roughly 1800-1900 every evening. Maybe it was just because as a student we had do our clinical duties as well as still find time to study for our test, but that 2 months was the least I had slept in a long time. Not sure I could maintain that lifestyle for long. 

Currently looking into Anesthesiology possibly. If not that, than I will likely do Internal medicine. 

 

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2 hours ago, NMarsh said:

I appreciate the welcoming words. 

@oldhippy do you primarily just work with mechanical clocks or do you also work with electrical? I have a beautiful Hammond Gregory "Skyscraper" circa 1930's. Unfortunately it looks like it is the 50htz version and not the 60 htz, so it will likely run a few minutes fast each day if my memory serves me right. 

I retired a long time ago. i used to restore high grade clocks not electrical clocks, Longcase, bracket fusee, french clocks and complected movements, my apprenticeship was in all 7years I spent many years working on maniacal watches all types.   

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