Nice post and it's be great to see more of them. As mentioned upstream a little ways, some pics of your projects would probably be pretty welcome here too.
I've got a Seiko Kinetic I bought used probably 10 years ago and it keeps going into non-usage mode whenever I replace, only to come back out again. So reliable, and fun to watch the hands start spinning when it gets moved. Being titanium, it feels like there's no watch even there, and when I...
Got one on the way for a friend, but think I'll play around with it for a couple hours before I mail it off. Amazing the way the whole landscape of available products has evolved in the last several years.
Hey, we've both got almost the same watch, down to the blue dial even! Yours has a cleaner and more dressy look without the lume, but I like them both.
I just left but we were talking about the fact that anyone with the ability to be careful and work in tiny things can do much of this stuff themselves, so you may be able to save some money and have fun too in the process.
I’ll ask him in the next couple of days how tough it is to change out...
You’re going to the wrong shops. I was just told no-charge for opening it up to give an estimate and generally 150 to clean and that particular movement.