As I work my way through my epic stash of “project watches,” I’m excavating some long-buried watches that I worked on years and years ago with cryptic notes. I packed… Read more »
In statistics—a big part of my day job—an often misunderstood idea is “regression to the mean.” This is sometimes misinterpreted as some sort of mystical process where the universe balances… Read more »
My stash of watches to fix is slowly shrinking, and I’m reaching some interesting and complicated cases. Here’s the current patient: a big, chunky Illinois pocket watch. This is an… Read more »
One of the nicer watches in my stash of “fix someday” watches is this old Waltham pocket watch. I picked it up for a good price some years back at… Read more »
Usually I buy parts to fit a broken watch, but other times I buy broken watches to fit my supply of parts. After working on the Elgin 315 we saw… Read more »
My backlog of broken watches is shrinking, and next in line is this charming little pocket watch. This is an Illinois 404, a 12-size pocket watch from around 1915, according… Read more »
If a watch runs well—it is clean, free of flaws, and running with good amplitude—it can usually be adjusted to be more accurate across different positions. And then we have… Read more »
I’m continuing my march through the watch stash to fix and adjust the many watches I’ve collected over the years and swore I’d get to some day. Today is the… Read more »
When you fish for pocket watches in the murky waters of eBay, estate sales, and pawn shops, you’ll find some seriously mistreated watches. A certain kind of person, when finding… Read more »
One of my recurring New Year’s Resolutions is to stop buying crusty and broken watches to work on until I clear out the backlog of watches I already have. I… Read more »