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Hello from (not so) sunny Hastings


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Hello everyone, just introducing myself before I start pestering with questions.

My background is clock restoration, I apprenticed with Thwaites & Reed way back when and only serviced my own (and family) watches. I'm not in the trade now but still have a workshop set up and enjoy tackling complete wrecks. Recent projects are a Longines who's keeper decided to add olive oil to smooth the winding, that was interesting to get off. I have just finished a rolex 3035 that took a spin through a washing machine and then git relegated to a drawer for a few years, now keeping time to within 3 secs per day, chuffed with that, so was the woman's husband.

Other projects on the go include trying to finish making a carriage clock with a chronometer platform escapement and remontoire. Bit of head scratching on that one, it was started by a 92 year old friend of mine who has forgotten more than I ever knew.

Thanks for having me

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Hi & welcome to a great forum.

I live in the US (home off unregulated gun laws). My wife and I like to visit GB when we can. She is a "Weaver" & belongs to the Cornwall UK weavers guild. The only American in that fine group. Her ancestor was sent to Virginia after being convicted of pick pocketing, in the 1600"s

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