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Watch repair: The watch repair manual, by Fried Practical watch repairing, by De Carle The Swiss Watch repairer's manual, by Jendritzki (This book is great,
by icantdrive55 8y ago
Watch repair:
The watch repair manual, by Fried
Practical watch repairing, by De Carle
The Swiss Watch repairer's manual, by Jendritzki (This book is great, but don't pay more than $75. After Fried's book it pulls in all the information nicely.)
Bulova Repair Training Manual
Chicago school of watchmaking (There's no copyright on this course. A guy on EBay has been scaring people for years. He does not own the copyright.)
Bestfit encyclopedia of Watch Parts 1 & 2
The clock and watch makers guide to gear making
George Daniels Watchmaking
I'll be writing my own book in the future. It will be a modern take on the repair of mechanical watches. It will have a lot of pictures. It will be direct, and to the point.
If you are interested in watch repair; I would do it as a hobby. I couldn't imagine making a good living repairing watches.
The bigger watch brands do not want to sell spare parts. That just might change in the future? Right now, it looks dim. Rolex, and the Swatch Group basically want to dictate whom, and where you can elect to get your watch repaired. Most times it the factory, at factory prices.
If you get into watch repair throughly, your appreciation of watches might change. When there's no mystery, there's no magic, I guess?
- fao_ 8y agoHey, it looks like you've been shadowbanned since around september 2016. A skim through shows one or two comments that have been vouched for (as I did with this one), and a lot of 'reasonable' comments that haven't. I'm not sure what to say, because a fair amount of your comments didn't really seem worthy of a shadowban, so I assume that you cleaned up your behaviour, but alas too late. You might wish to email an appeal to the moderators to sort it out.
- icantdrive55 8y agoI don't care anymore. (I do care. I had no idea I was being moderated.) I use this site as a diary somedays. I've had a moderator tell me to stop posting. I had no idea some Moderator could invade my privacy, and tell me to get lost. I don't ever remember any TOS. It affected my psychological state. It still hurts. I really thought I was just being honest? I just wanted to help. I really didn't think I was out of line. I think I ruffled a few Wealthy Boys feathers though? The biggest hypocrites I've seen are 99% of the Wealthy. They will steal the Timex off our wrist, and tell us the time. I have no love/respect for the silver spoon clan. If I feel the emotional damage is severe enough; I might seek out legal counsel? You Wealthy Boys are reading this now? I love HN. I don't like how it's moderated. I never saw, or clicked on a TOS agreement. I really care about all of you. I just wanted to add mt two cents. If you're going to Shadowban me, email me? Don't let me ramble on, and on? And thanks to fao_. I figured they wanted to silence me, but wasen't sure until now. I do mean well.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> When there's no mystery, there's no magic, I guess? Things might no longer be magic then, but it's better if we can learn to enjoy them anyway. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the-merely-real https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...