Revisiting an old hobby
Hello from Scotland.
I recently re-awakened an interest from my youth in watches and clocks. Strangely the catalyst was searching for a replacement hand for a Starrett dial indicator that I picked up for pennies on ebay and which I though might be useful for leveling the bed on my 3d printer. It was missing the dial hand, which looked very like a watch second hand, so that led to a search for a suitable donor watch. Needless to say I then got distracted by the vast array of old time pieces
I spent a little time this evening doing a component swap from a kitsch little Swiss tourist tat "pocket watch", with an EB 8810, into the Roxedo. The pocket watch was sitting unloved on ebay, and I picked up for less than the cost of a balance fork.
Here is the Roxedo resplendent with a nice shiny "new" red ruby enhanced balance and a working pallet fork. I couldn't simply swap the movements as the pocket watch movement was sans second hand, and I didn't want to spoil the look of the Roxe