Servicing
Regulating an NH35 without a timegrapher
A phone microphone, a free app and a lot of patience will get you inside ±10 seconds a day. Here's the method and where it stops being good enough.
Hobby bench · est. at the kitchen table
I take watches apart, and usually get them back together.
This is my notebook: servicing walkthroughs, custom builds assembled from parts sourced on DHgate and AliExpress, and honest notes on which cheap components are worth your money and which ones will waste an evening.
14Builds finished
9Movements serviced
3Hairsprings lost
∞Spring bars in the carpet
Shop picks
Parts I keep re-ordering
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From the bench
Recent write-ups
Lesson learned
The case back I ruined in four seconds
What a slipping three-prong opener does to brushed steel, and why I replaced it with a locking wrench the same week.
Buying
Reading a DHgate listing properly
Which spec numbers are meaningful, which are copy-pasted, and the four questions I send a seller before ordering anything that has to fit.