Sad face !!! first watch strip down Komandirski

[dismaldunc]

Hi peeps, put this here to vent more than anything, just completed my first watch, no parts lost ( nearly lost a spring with enough energy to cross the Atlantic) , no bits left over, tested and running lovely at +18 seconds a day (according to my iPhone app) I was super proud of myself!!  so dial on and  was trying to figure out how the movement ring went on when I dropped the thing, I heard the movement run down and discovered the exit pallet had fell out. so onto E-bay and what for another to appear from the Ukraine. 

I was really looking forward to wearing it! 

oh well, at least it wasn't an expensive one :- ) 

 

 

[spectre6000]

Ha! Yeah. That's a bummer. Sounds like you did well for your first, but the horlogy gods will not allow success on the first attempt. Your fate was sealed before time began.