Watch people

[grampahol]

I wouldn't mind having a nice watch collection I could sell for a profit, but I don't have that kind of money on hand so I sit and agonize fr several months over what I'm going to tell the Mrs next time I want to spend a few hundred for another watch. That still doesn't stop me from being endlessly fascinated by nice watch and clock movements, watching video of people taking them completely apart to refurbish them and so on.. I was going to do that kind of stuff, but shaking hands put an end to that fantasy. Still tough to beat Orient for the price range, all in house made movements, etc.. They're owned by a subsidiary of Seiko ..Seiko Epsilon actually..
I did find an old trashed cuckoo clock in the garbage once, took it home, took it all apart and rebuilt it and it ran perfectly and kept great time till my then 4 year old son decided to yank the chain and run through the house with it and made it back to trash again.. Oh well.. I might buy a cuckoo clock movement and make a new case for it someday if I can find a decent movement that I like.. I prefer brass..Last one was just sheet metal, but it worked..