Hello from England

[Boz]

Good morning,

I've long been fascinated with engineering, and more recently started to take an interest in mechanical watches. The sheer ingenuity and microscopic perfection intrigues me.  So far I've been learning to dismantle clean and reassemble scrap movements. To start with it was a nightmare with bit pinging off all over the place. After a couple of months I'm spending less time crawling on the floor having improved my technique and my tweezers and I'm at the stage where I'm ending up with runners rather than write-offs.

I look forward to learning from you all.

Julian Bosley

[jdm]

Welcome here, and congratulations for your achievements and the correct starting approach. You may be surprised that there is plenty of people that assumes they can work right away on their valuable or important watch without experience and tools whatsoever just because they worked as car mechanic or always liked to take apart things. Then it happens that they must have got a vary humbling experience because they are not heard anymore.

[Nucejoe]

‌Welcome to WRT forum.

[watchweasol]

Hello and welcome to the forum

[oldhippy]

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

We all look forward to your contributions and continued involvement. 

[Boz]

Thank-you all!

[Michael1962]

Welcome to the forum Julian.

I could quite easily have fallen into the trap that @jdm described. Rather large ability vs expectation gap. Lol.

Sounds like you are doing things their right way. Kudos.