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Having eagerly watched Mark's videos, it was only a small step to sooner or later join his forum!

 

Although it seems that stripping and reassembling a watch is as easy as the videos are suggesting - a hobbyist like me can only imagine how much practise is behind such skills. This and the great respect for the numerous specific and scientific topics a watchmaker has to cover in his profession made the whole thing very interesting for me. I started to service some of my sticky vintages a few weeks ago. I even managed to put some automatic day-date watches back together recently (and they worked afterwards!) - what a progress :)

 

As for my language: it is german, but I come from Austria. I really like the english language and therefore I am trying to participate here with all the watch related special expressions (there are thousands) as a training if you will. So please be lenient with my posts, and don't hesitate correcting me.

 

Well lastly, my nick translates roughly into "someone who remembers" (celui qui rappelle) and is somewhat of a pun with my name and the term rhabilleur. Now you know it all :)

 

Oh not quite: I have a small family, I am self employed, in the middle of life (hopefully) and a lover of books and music, when not working on watches.

 

Looking forward to having a lot of nice conversation here!

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Nice and easy is the way to go. You have to be patient with tinkering watches. Don't rush it! If you don't find an hour or two to work on something then don't do it at all as rushing it can make things worse.

PS: I was expecting you to show us a Tag watch or something given the title which I thought was a pun. :P

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Yeah, I also could have said "Guten Abend" which means Good Evening, as it was late at night - but as this forum is so international I went for "Tag" which is "day". Sorry for confusing with Tag Heuer :) I only have one such piece, it is a complete drowned thing with algae and all. Furthermore I think it is a fake as well. No use tinkering around with it I guess.

 

And, yes, I take my time when messing with watches. Usually I can do some work on weekend nights, there is no such rush as on weekdays. The very first watch I ever worked on was a Junghans Quartz I bought in a lot with many others. I really liked the look of it (or "her"? Do you refer to watches as feminin like with ships and cars and things you love?).

Unfortunately, the watch was losing 10+ minutes a day. Quite bad for a quartz and I thought, this must come frome dirt or something else inside, not the battery (which was new). 

So I started to rip it all apart and put it back again. Did this two or three times, changed some parts as I had two spare movements, and it turned out to be the electrobloc (or however this thingie is called) what was defect. My first watch was "repaired"! It is not very precious, but it is defintely a keeper and about my age as well! So I think this dragged me into watch repairing. 

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Hi and welcome to the forum, plenty of knowledgeable people on this forum who willingly give excellent advice, (I am not one of them) but I will be signing up to Mark's courses soon in an effort to up my skill level. Best regards Johnnie

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As for my language: it is german, but I come from Austria. I really like the english language and therefore I am trying to participate here with all the watch related special expressions (there are thousands) as a training if you will. So please be lenient with my posts, and don't hesitate correcting me.
 
Looking forward to having a lot of nice conversation here!

Hallo, und wilkommen ins Forum. Similar interests... books, music (rock including Floyd, and many classicals too), and languages including German. Began tinkering with watches last autumn after being inspired by Mark’s videos. Mainly been enjoying antique pocket watches since then.

In answer to English noun gender: yes, we do call things we love (cars, ships etc.), “she” but in context, such as a watch you’re fond of “she’s a beauty”, but in general we would refer to pronouns such as the watch as “it” (“it has been repaired” or “it’s not working”). German is far clearer about masculine and feminine nouns, “Die Taschenuhr”. Hope that helps. I love Austria too. Taken many holidays near Salzburg and in Steirmark :)


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