1. All books by Henry Fried. (A. many books overlap info., but if reasonably priced are work buying.)
2. All books by DeCarle. (see A above.)
3. George Daniel's book.
4. All past issues of AWCI magazine.
5. Oh yea, get Questions, and Answers for AWCI test questions.
(Don't pay a lot for these books, pamphlets. They can be found, but you need to hunt.)
6. Decide if you want to use a loupe, or stereoscope.
7. Yes--it does take a few years to get good.
8. You will not get rich repairing watches, but you can do it forever.
(If you are in the need if a watchmaker in the bay area, in a few months I will have a small shop. The business will be under the name of Jacob Decosta. I'm honest. There will be some very complicated watches I won't work on though. My prices will be vastly lower than factory prices.)
Kind of a niche for HN, but there's a few watchmaking programs catering to US military veterans that began after WWII, dried up a bit but seem to be making a bit of a resurgence.
Not yet, but I'm on FB. I have a neglected page that tries to teach Watch Repairing--It's called "Watch Repairing". My page has a b/w picture of my bench.
1. All books by Henry Fried. (A. many books overlap info., but if reasonably priced are work buying.)
2. All books by DeCarle. (see A above.)
3. George Daniel's book.
4. All past issues of AWCI magazine.
5. Oh yea, get Questions, and Answers for AWCI test questions.
(Don't pay a lot for these books, pamphlets. They can be found, but you need to hunt.)
6. Decide if you want to use a loupe, or stereoscope.
7. Yes--it does take a few years to get good.
8. You will not get rich repairing watches, but you can do it forever.
(If you are in the need if a watchmaker in the bay area, in a few months I will have a small shop. The business will be under the name of Jacob Decosta. I'm honest. There will be some very complicated watches I won't work on though. My prices will be vastly lower than factory prices.)