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I've been "playing" watchmaker for the past year or so and I absolutely love it. I'm at a stage where I basically spend all of my free time tinkering with watches. I find it extremely rewarding and it has a therapeutic effect on my soul ;)

So far I've only serviced Russian watches (Vostok calibres 2409, 2414, and 2415) as they are so inexpensive and fun to work with and I usually hang on the F10 Russian Watches forum on WUS when I'm online (member VWatchie), but I believe watchrepairtalk will  be more suitable for me now as it is the movements that are my main focus. Once in a while, though, I like to make a "mod watch" and my latest "creation" I actually finished yesterday and it can be seen here.

For a living, I work as an IT teacher at Academy, teaching .NET, C#, SQL, and JavaScript. I have a lovely wife (who actually helps me find watch parts when I've shot them across the room. She has the eyes of a hawk, bless her!) and a daughter (12 years old) and a son (8 years old). Eventually, I'd like to get some decent equipment for making videos about watchmaking and publish it on my (just started) YouTube channel.

In my next life, I will become a real watchmaker ;) but for now, I really look forward to be talking to you all! Thank you for reading!

 

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Hello VWatchie; luckily there is some information on this forum about Russian watches. I’ve also done the calibers you mentioned and some more like the Poljot 3133 or the 31659, both you will find under the section “walkthough”.

Indeed, these Russian watches are fun, but the market has become (even more) a bit of a Russian roulette. Especially in the last year or so, many fake dials, made identical to the old collectable USSR / CCCP dials, have hit the market. If you after the older dials, it has become a real mine field. Same counts for the 3133 Poljot watches, many Frankens out there. One has to wonder how huge the Russian Navy must have been if you see the amounts of “original” OKEAH’s on offer :ph34r: ...... but that all makes it interesting and fun too ;)

Molnija (Pocket watches) is another interesting one.

Venlig hilsen fra Danmark :) 

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Hej Vwatchie 

Kul med en landsman.Välkommen. There are more people from Sweden in here i think.  Nice mod you have done . Have worked on some Vostok to. But not that fond of them. But parts are cheap and they are real workhorses. But would love a Vostok swing lug. I fixed a Vostok recently that i managed to get waterproof and the owner said he take i diving this summer :) 

 

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Hejsan Vwatchie,

Jomenvisst, här är landsman till, i mitt fall från jöttebårj ! You will be amazed by the wealth of experience and willingness to share at this forum. When I got started with this hobby a couple of years back, I got somewhat hooked on watches from late 30´s and 40´s, meaning that they are not always easily identified for parts chasing (at least not for me). But there are guys in here with sleuthing capacity that constantly amazes me and their willingness to spend time on my requests even more so.

Welcome!



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