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Hello fellow watch enthusiasts my name in Landry. I love pocket watches and I have a Waltham 1899 16s 7j pocket watch, the case has a nice engraving of a train on the back. This is my first pocket watch that does not have a battery my other one is a Mickey Mouse and the battery is dead again. I have always wanted to have a winding pocket watch. The watch that was given to me was not working and I did not know where to take it to have it serviced so I decided recently to work on it myself. I don't know much about watches but I am mechanically inclined. I am currently taking the watch Repair Course I am enjoying myself I just purchased some tools and I have some other pocket watches I got from Ebay. I wanted to work on some other watches before I started on mine.  I think I will be sticking to Waltham, Hamilton, Elgin, Illinois and the like. I did get one Swiss Galco stop watch in an Ebay purchase but I will work on that after I get used to working on other pocket watches as i'm not sure what I will run into with the Swiss stop watch. Look forward to learning some stuff here and chatting with you. Thanks Much

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Hello fellow watch enthusiasts my name in Landry. I love pocket watches and I have a Waltham 1899 16s 7j pocket watch, the case has a nice engraving of a train on the back. This is my first pocket watch that does not have a battery my other one is a Mickey Mouse and the battery is dead again. I have always wanted to have a winding pocket watch. The watch that was given to me was not working and I did not know where to take it to have it serviced so I decided recently to work on it myself. I don't know much about watches but I am mechanically inclined. I am currently taking the watch Repair Course I am enjoying myself I just purchased some tools and I have some other pocket watches I got from Ebay. I wanted to work on some other watches before I started on mine.  I think I will be sticking to Waltham, Hamilton, Elgin, Illinois and the like. I did get one Swiss Galco stop watch in an Ebay purchase but I will work on that after I get used to working on other pocket watches as i'm not sure what I will run into with the Swiss stop watch. Look forward to learning some stuff here and chatting with you. Thanks Much

Hi Landry, Welcome here and you are doing OK. Regards, Mike.

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