Thank you for the details on the drama. It is hilarious from the sidelines.
Speaking of maintaining watches, I was on the fence on buying this starter kit to help me maintain my set of watches (replace batteries/clean my watches) and avoid the garbage that is on sites like amazon.
Do you have any other recommendations on watch kits (trying to keep my budget below $150 AUD)?
I don’t actually have a dedicated kit of stuff for watches, but what I use for fountain pen maintenance + iFixIt toolkit gets me 90% of the way there. Other than that, it’s just specific screwdriver bits and a watch case back opener (if you’re dealing with anything airtight)
Nothing about that looks like it’s worth more than the cheap kits you find on Amazon. There’s really nothing special about that kit.
Depends on how far you want to go with the maintenance, buy a good caseback opener, a movement holder, a good set of watchmaker screwdrivers, some good tweezers, hand setter, and a good magnifier. If you want to full service with washing and lubricating and reluming etc, you’ll start going to specialty stores but you’d be far down the hobby at that point and you’ll come across the right sellers in your research.
Thank you for the details on the drama. It is hilarious from the sidelines.
Speaking of maintaining watches, I was on the fence on buying this starter kit to help me maintain my set of watches (replace batteries/clean my watches) and avoid the garbage that is on sites like amazon. Do you have any other recommendations on watch kits (trying to keep my budget below $150 AUD)?
I don’t actually have a dedicated kit of stuff for watches, but what I use for fountain pen maintenance + iFixIt toolkit gets me 90% of the way there. Other than that, it’s just specific screwdriver bits and a watch case back opener (if you’re dealing with anything airtight)
Nothing about that looks like it’s worth more than the cheap kits you find on Amazon. There’s really nothing special about that kit.
Depends on how far you want to go with the maintenance, buy a good caseback opener, a movement holder, a good set of watchmaker screwdrivers, some good tweezers, hand setter, and a good magnifier. If you want to full service with washing and lubricating and reluming etc, you’ll start going to specialty stores but you’d be far down the hobby at that point and you’ll come across the right sellers in your research.