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Morning all,

I'm a complete novice when it comes to watches, but have certainly caught the bug over the past couple of months.  Started with a 'Build your own watch from eBay parts' (with help from the excellent YouTube videos), and now I've moved on to the servicing/repair of a Seiko 5 with 7009 movement.  I have three observations from my initial foray:

  1. If there is an opportunity for anything to spring from the desk, it will
  2. Chances of finding something that has left the desk is about 10%
  3. It is going to take a while to become proficient with tweezers

My passion is repairing and restoring anything vintage, the last project was a 1963 Land Rover - sadly very little crossover in tooling!  For me, the process of restoration is almost more important than the end result.

I would like to find a few more Seiko 5's for repair and would welcome any guidance about sourcing watches for repair.  eBay is the obvious place to look but I'd welcome alternatives, thanks.

Mark.

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Hi Mark,

Ohh nooo another competitor on ebay!!! :) Welcome to the forum. :) Watch Mark's videos and read books, its an amazing an exciting territory of life I just recently discovered. Watch your seating position and have a good light. Basically follow the advice is given by Mark or by the books. I was planning to buy a rolltop desk which would catch some of the parts flying, but could not find a place for it yet in the house. I am still rather screwing up watches rather than servicing them and everything takes a long time to master. :) Things which are 5 mins for Mark I can sometime spend 2-3 hours or a few days, beeing on my knees looking for parts, braking them and trying to find another part in my pile, trying to make something but I fail to do so, forgetting something to put in, scratching the movement/dial, ohh and the hairsping is beating even Freddy Krueger. Still its worth it. 

lui

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Welcome to the forum Mark I see you have already found some of the problems of watch repair.  I doing somthing trickey and there is a possibility of an escaper like clicks and click springs etc, work in a large plastic bag,       Not you        the watch it limits the distance the bit travel

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Thanks to you all for the welcome.  I like the large plastic bag idea, and will be using that.  The speedtimerkollektion link is a revelation, so pleased to have a source of projects/parts other than eBay!

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