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Hi everyone I’m Steven. Artist designer jack of all trades I like taking things apart and seeing how they work and I make jewellery. Looking into designing a watch line, watches and jewellery are similar to a point yet so different so I’m looking to expand my knowledge, meet new people and learn new things to facilitate my endeavours. My first question is about a repair to a watch I recently purchased in Spain. Now it’s nothing special but I came across a jewellery shop and this watch caught my eye. See enclosed pics I undid it and part of the strap came off from the push pins then the buckle part of the strap did the same. Now she did attempt to fix it and showed me other straps to put on the face none of which I liked none had the colour and design that attracted me to the shop window in the first place so anyway I got another but I went back and tried to swap it back for the broken one because I really wanted it and nothing else there was even close in design. So long story short she just gave it to me I said I try fix so I think she used loctite on it and said leave for one hour don’t wear. Needless to say it came apart the plastic strap is flexible so I would say that the glue wasn’t obviously suitable for a flexible moving part. I did just get a two part epoxy resin but I am wondering what I can do that she couldn’t wouldn’t or didn’t kinda putting a few options together till I think I find the most appropriate. Find enclosed pictures of what I mean hopefully you will see what attracted my eye to it I just really like it I do not want a different strap on the face and nothing really matched well in the swatch book she showed me I’m not sure what the issue was but she couldn’t get a strap to go onto it anyway so decided that it was a lost cause I really hope not because I just love it I know that sounds silly but I really do9EE3480A-E2D2-41AF-A614-928DC8C2576D.thumb.jpeg.4f77db4d09e03882a632bba8b6c16d42.jpeg. Thanks so much guys

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