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Workshop and reference library

Movements
on the bench

+4 s/d · 268° · 0.2 ms Illustration — not a measurement of any particular watch

I buy vintage watches and movements — running or not — strip them down on camera, and write up what I find. Some go back together and get sold. Others give up their parts. Either way the teardown stays here, so the next person to open the same caliber has something to follow.

The library

Caliber by caliber

Each caliber gets its own page: the teardown in chapters, the screw layout, and which oil goes where. I write it the way I want to find it at the bench — something to drop into halfway through, not a video you have to sit through.

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The bench

Sell me a watch

Running, stopped or in pieces — I am interested either way. Send photos and I will tell you what it is and make an offer. You are free to say no.

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