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Hello.  Although I've had a fascination with clockwork since childhood, my first tentative baby steps into the world of horology are very recent.  I decided to make my attempt after watching YouTubers working on watch movements, which I found utterly engrossing; especially when, after a complete disassembly and clean, an old watch no longer working suddenly sprang back to life, the first stuttering independence of the balance making me want to cheer.  It was a feeling that made me want to become more than just an appreciative spectator.  I am only at the very beginning and was trying to remove the movement of an old Sekonda when I got stuck and did a google search which brought me to this website and gave me confirmation of a suspicion I had that the movement was removed from the front instead of from the back.  With this confirmation I had the confidence to proceed and managed to get the old movement out of the case.  And having found such a good source of information for my embryonic hobby, I decided I'd be likely to need help more than once, and joined up. 

I'm hoping that any questions I ask may not be too ridiculously simple, but I'm really at the very start!

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Welcome Eric, and thaks for the introduction! Your story will seem familiar to many of us, I'm sure. Here's hoping you find what you are looking for. There are a lot of very experienced people on here, who do not consider any question beneath them, so ask away (but use the search function first!).

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