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Hello all!!

My name is Rei from Singapore, recently developed an interest in watches and started learning about them.
I hope to 1 day create my own watch.
As i am fairly new to this watch hobby, I have started to read up on the difference between watches such as mechanical and quartz movement, to the different parts of watches as well.
 

My first and current project would be making a watch for my love one :)

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Welcome here. Probably you knew already that Singapore used to be quite important for the watch industry in Asia, but things changes and I'm afraid there isn't much more of that left now, so you will be buying from Hong Kong likely.

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