I developed a love for certain kinds of watches many years ago, before I come to America. I have many watches, most of them quite expensive
With all of these watches comes maintenance expense. I have some watches that use batteries and I have to send them to a repair shop to just change the batteries. The reason is that the watches have perpetual calendars and know what month and date it is regardless of the month and even a leap year. Sending my watches to these places always meant at least $150. With as many watches as I have that is quite the expense.
So I go to Youtube. You can find Everything on Youtube, even watch repair and programming perpetual calendar watches.
Now there are also videos for disassembly, cleaning and repair of Rolex watches. Rolex watches need to be serviced every couple of years so that is something some of you may want to try to tackle yourselves. I haven't the nerve to do it yet, but I am getting close. I have watched the video several times and believe it is not too bad. The risk is if you mess something up you have to send it in for repair and replacement parts. The expense goes up as well as the wait time for it's return.
So if you have good eyes, a steady hand, and are seriously technical you may want to try this. I use to take cameras apart and clean them as well, when cameras still used film. I have had very high-end Nikon and Canon film cameras apart and put them back together with good results.
Maybe I am the only one, but here goes nothing.
With all of these watches comes maintenance expense. I have some watches that use batteries and I have to send them to a repair shop to just change the batteries. The reason is that the watches have perpetual calendars and know what month and date it is regardless of the month and even a leap year. Sending my watches to these places always meant at least $150. With as many watches as I have that is quite the expense.
So I go to Youtube. You can find Everything on Youtube, even watch repair and programming perpetual calendar watches.
Now there are also videos for disassembly, cleaning and repair of Rolex watches. Rolex watches need to be serviced every couple of years so that is something some of you may want to try to tackle yourselves. I haven't the nerve to do it yet, but I am getting close. I have watched the video several times and believe it is not too bad. The risk is if you mess something up you have to send it in for repair and replacement parts. The expense goes up as well as the wait time for it's return.
So if you have good eyes, a steady hand, and are seriously technical you may want to try this. I use to take cameras apart and clean them as well, when cameras still used film. I have had very high-end Nikon and Canon film cameras apart and put them back together with good results.
Maybe I am the only one, but here goes nothing.