Hi Friends,
Watches are very close to my heart. The hobby, which I picked due to my dear friend Anand Oak about 21 year ago, while working at WRIC.
I am talking about mechanical watches which our dad and grandfather use to wear on their wrist before Quartz watches arrived in the market. Mechanical time keeping machines are engineering marvels in my opinion. The design, the assembly, all has to be in perfect sync to keep almost perfect time. As you know, few of these time keeping machines, specially Swiss made, can cost you anywhere between few thousand to few lacks of US DOLLARS.
Well, I am a hobbies watch maker and like to see to mechanics in it tick. I have spend countless weekends in opening a watch and fixing it all again. My interest is specially in the mechanical watches. They can be divided into two categories. Manual wound and Automatic watches. The mechanical automatic watches do not have any battery to power them, but they use brilliant mechanical design to automate the task of winding the watch for us.
For long, I struggled to find good information on how to disassemble and assemble the watch. I had to rely on my memory or use some other technique to remember the order in which I disassemble a watch. Wondered if there was any authentic document by manufacturer for its technicians to the task, and finally found a place on internet, where someone as passionate as me, scanned and uploaded the document for one of the Seiko made automatic watch, on which I was working. It can be found here
The next step is to make sure, that the efforts of fella are not wasted. I have to use the document to go the next of understanding of this small mechanical wonder, we call "Watch".
Till then, take care.
Watches are very close to my heart. The hobby, which I picked due to my dear friend Anand Oak about 21 year ago, while working at WRIC.
I am talking about mechanical watches which our dad and grandfather use to wear on their wrist before Quartz watches arrived in the market. Mechanical time keeping machines are engineering marvels in my opinion. The design, the assembly, all has to be in perfect sync to keep almost perfect time. As you know, few of these time keeping machines, specially Swiss made, can cost you anywhere between few thousand to few lacks of US DOLLARS.
Well, I am a hobbies watch maker and like to see to mechanics in it tick. I have spend countless weekends in opening a watch and fixing it all again. My interest is specially in the mechanical watches. They can be divided into two categories. Manual wound and Automatic watches. The mechanical automatic watches do not have any battery to power them, but they use brilliant mechanical design to automate the task of winding the watch for us.
For long, I struggled to find good information on how to disassemble and assemble the watch. I had to rely on my memory or use some other technique to remember the order in which I disassemble a watch. Wondered if there was any authentic document by manufacturer for its technicians to the task, and finally found a place on internet, where someone as passionate as me, scanned and uploaded the document for one of the Seiko made automatic watch, on which I was working. It can be found here
The next step is to make sure, that the efforts of fella are not wasted. I have to use the document to go the next of understanding of this small mechanical wonder, we call "Watch".
Till then, take care.
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