With the 8/0 747 movement ticking away nicely, it’s time to turn to the case. Like many Hamilton watches from that era, the “Clinton” model had a two-piece case with… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A New Year’s resolution that’s sure to fail is “don’t buy more broken watches on eBay until you fix the ones you have,” but I’m making a good effort and… Read more »
A friend of mine is one of the watchless—people who haven’t worn a watch for years. But he’s intrigued, I can tell, so I offered him a watch from my… Read more »
When fishing for watches on eBay, you occasionally gamble. You see a watch for sale for cheap by a seller who can’t open it and doesn’t know how to describe… Read more »
I’ve been wanting to get a “weekend beater,” a hand-wound watch with no date—something I can wind up and wear over the weekend without leaving it on a winder during… Read more »
Moving from one house to another is always irksome, but it really hurts when you work on watches. Moving a big couch is easy; moving a dozen small watches in… Read more »
Some watch companies get too much love from collectors, but a few get overlooked. I think Gruen is one of the underappreciated ones. Gruen watches have their small following of… Read more »