OMEGA Co-Axial Escapement
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hell yeah i love "horology", love to do scientific study of whores

FreedomBliss 2012 Damn, this comment section is woke as hell ! +12 upvotes

Dave C Agree, and high dislike ratio on a very well produced visually beautiful video. These are not George Daniels sympathizers, they're just Omega haters. +4 upvotes

Boy McFacto Dave C no one has anything to gain from just hating omega and most don’t hate it. Stop being a dumbass. The fact of the matter is a reference to George Daniels’ contribution is clearly owed here. +1 upvotes

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That's super interesting, thanks for sharing. I've found that the communities who genuinely love horology to be extremely friendly places, ie "watchrepairtalk.com" while the places devoted to oogling collections have constant ongoing internal drama and awful culture, ie "watchuseek".

      watchrepairtalk.com is the only time on the internet I've had a turk, an iranian, an englishman, a german, and an american all try really hard to help me diagnose and solve problems.

        • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I'd be seriously interested in reading that.

          I got into watches because I inherited some old mechanical pieces from the 50's that belonged to my great grandfather. An auto timex and a manual wound aureole. The timex being a timex can't be serviced but it keeps great time, the auto-rotor just wallered itself out a bit so it rattles. I got the aureole fixed and was absolutely fixated by it.

          I got a couple Vostoks and years later decided to learn how to fix them, because a service is about 3x the cost to buy a new one, but they're not disposable pieces whatsoever. Turns out you can buy beat to shit vostoks from Ukraine for basically 2-5 bucks a watch and tear into them till you're blue in the face. I moved onto working on some old american and swiss pieces, did a small repair on a 70's tissot with a worn out cannon pinion and did a full service and polish on my late grandmothers tiny bulova as a gift to my sister.

          To get the proper screw drivers, tweezers, oils, etc was a bit expensive, but not more than a single service. Nothing beats just getting in the zone for 4 hours meticulously taking apart and cleaning each piece, and slowly putting it back together, oiling to spec, and watching it come back to life. Jeez I honestly miss it a lot but my new apartment has all carpet floors and I'd lose an incabloc spring or jewel in an instant.