I was servicing this watch and couldn't stop looking at this horrible thing used as a replacment marker !



I was thinking that this is Soooo bad , how much worse could I do . I knew that I would have to use stainless steel and I went to work ;





A rough satin finish and a little black enamel


I'll tell you ,I felt much better about the job when I finished

 

Nice work sir. What was used before, looks like a bit of solder ?

 

almost looks like the head of a very small nail!

 

nice job

 

They can fall off when the dial is flexed or mishandled . Even cleaning them with rodico can pull off a loose marker . The problem comes when you don't notice or take the time to find it if it does come loose . Some guys can just close the case after that , I can't . It only took me a hour and a half to make that missing marker and it was the first time . The next one will go a little faster ,but I'd rather take the extra time then send the watch out looking like that .

 

When I first stared messing with watches I met the watch parts ghost, this little SOB goes around and steals things out of watches, off work benches. I mean there it is one second and gone the next. You never know when this tiny villian will show up. AND the little bastid will sometimes put things back or he'll stick a part onto another part, I've even seen him put things in my bed. The MFer. Sometimes he waits a couple of days or even weeks before he puts things back..........Be real careful, he visits everyone that messes around with watches........The bastid

 

He's a distant relative of the sock monster - the fiend who swipes one sock out of your dryer.

 

And first cousin to the tool gremlin that moves the wrench you need six inches out of reach when under a car.

 

Yea, the whole family of gremlins, you never see it but you know hes there, my kids knew em well though, they actually called him by names...notme, idindoit, donno, wha, hediit and a slew of other names