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Hi. I'm Mike Lewis and I'm a new member from Seattle. I'm not new to watches or watch collecting but I just found out about this site -- indirectly -- from Spencer at Klein Vintage Watches who made a referral to the Blair Watch Project -- I know, GREAT name -- which listed Watch Repair Talk as a site to visit. Thus, here I am. I've loved wristwatches since I was a kid and began collecting probably 25 years ago and in earnest about five years ago, with a focus/unhealthy obsession re: vintage mechanical alarm watches. No surprise that I dig analog mechanical things of all sorts (old cars and motorcycles for example). I co-own a bar in Seattle and I spent much of my career in California and Washington as both a newspaper and radio journalist. I really want to up my watch repair game and I'd guess I'm in good company here to do that. So, again, hello. Today's watch, Lanco-Fon Single Key Alarm (1955 approx.): 

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9 hours ago, RichardHarris123 said:

Hello and welcome from Leeds, England. 

I was in Leeds not too long ago. I went to my first (and only) Premier League game, Leeds and Aston Villa. 0-0 tie.  (Obviously this was prior to relegation.) Loved the city, actually. 

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