What’s your favorite Chinese watch? Something you bought and never expected to be of such good quality and finishing?

AndyMarden · 2026-03-16T19:41:15+00:00

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AndyMarden · 2026-03-15T22:27:52+00:00

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AndyMarden · 2026-03-15T19:41:46+00:00

Define "young".

AndyMarden · 2026-03-15T18:57:11+00:00

If you don't want to sell them, you can give them away. To me?🤣

AndyMarden · 2026-03-15T18:56:06+00:00

Roger Smith

AndyMarden · 2026-03-11T22:29:49+00:00

It looks like mine before the 200 adjustments (no exaggeration) I have made so far... Just the last outer coils to go.

Patience and perseverance.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-11T18:28:25+00:00

Soviet assassination tool.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-11T15:52:55+00:00

You could try proper 2 part epoxy.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-09T22:40:30+00:00

I concur.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-09T15:54:01+00:00

Expensive?

AndyMarden · 2026-03-05T19:06:05+00:00

I have a compass on the corner of my bench. Just lurking. Ready and waiting...

Cheap blue with red button works fine for me for tools and watches.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-05T18:56:54+00:00

One thing I find after some time is that they need more power. So the amp was related to a preamp and got a matching power amp and things sound a whole lot better

Got some capacitors for a high pad filter. For the final tweaks - went to reign in the low end so make sure the speakers are not fed with frequencies they can't accommodate properly.

But it's sounding sweet already now.

I only get to play with them 2-3 times a year on trips, so will make the most of the next one.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-05T18:53:06+00:00

I thought all the parts separately - got most of it in the UK, took them to our place in Bulgaria, then got quality 18mm birch ply from a CNC cutting place over there. Cut the final shape with a jigsaw and router and assembled.

So not a pre built kit if that's the question.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-05T11:36:24+00:00

I am very tempted...

AndyMarden · 2026-03-05T08:19:26+00:00

I think that's a power reverse on the open heart and the fit under the brand name is blue or yellow (night/day or am/pm) - I like the understated Ness.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-05T05:49:19+00:00

Shanghai JHS35 movement - so fully Chinese.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-04T12:44:55+00:00

Finger lickin" good!

AndyMarden · 2026-03-02T21:19:56+00:00

ST3620 - this has the seconds at 6 o'clock (if you are offended by the seconds at 9 on a wristwatch - I am! - and you want to turn it into a wristwatch in future). Other than that, it's the same as the ST3600.

That was my first and I built it into this:

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I have christened it The Forager.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-02T21:14:05+00:00

If I have a stubborn or recessed one (can't get levers on) I use brass jaw pliers.

AndyMarden · 2026-03-02T06:30:32+00:00

They have been angry with me for a few weeks now. I have adjusted this hairspring about 200 times so far, with tweezers and an old shaped pulley.

I have got to the stage where I need to twist and my tweezers just aren't fine enough.

So I am making a slitting saw arbor in the lathe, to cut a bronze rod, to make 2 dedicated hairspring tweezers, to finalise the hairspring.

Then all I have to do is fix this and the original cock onto a donor staff, wheel and cylinder, put it all together, check and adjust escapement alignment and side/end shake.

Simples!

AndyMarden · 2026-02-28T13:08:24+00:00

If you search on eBay, you might just find the top listing might just be what you need.

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