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Maybe there’s a message in all this.
The 14kt horse motif watch is super cute and gorgeous and I bought it years and years ago for my God daughters 21st birthday gift. She was ”horse mad”. As it transpired she was going on a big overseas adventure so I decided to give her money towards her trip and kept the watch.
More years pass and I eventually decided to sell it only to notice it wasn’t keeping time. No problem, I took it in for cleaning and service which cost $160. I then took some photos for my eBay listing and decided, ugh, to remove the watch movement to get the net gold weight. Now, I have handled watches all my life, I have a heap of watchmakers equipment and can do minor things, so no big deal.
Except.
I dropped the watch movement.
Not only that it missed the work surface, hit the table and bounced once it hit the carpet.
I picked the movement up and one of the watch hands has come off. Are you kidding me! Oh, that and the movement no longer worked. I’d guess I’ve knocked the balance staff. Great.
I then had to spend, oh two hours, on my hands and knees trying to find a minute little watch hand in the “patterned carpet” (can’t use a vacuum as it would have damage the part) with not one, but two dogs wanting to “help” me. A needle in a haystack would have been easier….argh.
After all that, dismayed, I just put all the pieces away and that was that.
Tomorrow I’m going in to my jeweller because I came up with an “idea”. I have a sweet Victorian brooch with 3 colours of gold. Rather than spend more money on the watch movement which obviously doesn’t want to be a working watch movement, Im putting the brooch in the centre instead. Still a horse theme bracelet but more practical and wearable.
At least if I drop it again no harm will befall it!
The 14kt horse motif watch is super cute and gorgeous and I bought it years and years ago for my God daughters 21st birthday gift. She was ”horse mad”. As it transpired she was going on a big overseas adventure so I decided to give her money towards her trip and kept the watch.
More years pass and I eventually decided to sell it only to notice it wasn’t keeping time. No problem, I took it in for cleaning and service which cost $160. I then took some photos for my eBay listing and decided, ugh, to remove the watch movement to get the net gold weight. Now, I have handled watches all my life, I have a heap of watchmakers equipment and can do minor things, so no big deal.
Except.
I dropped the watch movement.
Not only that it missed the work surface, hit the table and bounced once it hit the carpet.
I picked the movement up and one of the watch hands has come off. Are you kidding me! Oh, that and the movement no longer worked. I’d guess I’ve knocked the balance staff. Great.
I then had to spend, oh two hours, on my hands and knees trying to find a minute little watch hand in the “patterned carpet” (can’t use a vacuum as it would have damage the part) with not one, but two dogs wanting to “help” me. A needle in a haystack would have been easier….argh.
After all that, dismayed, I just put all the pieces away and that was that.
Tomorrow I’m going in to my jeweller because I came up with an “idea”. I have a sweet Victorian brooch with 3 colours of gold. Rather than spend more money on the watch movement which obviously doesn’t want to be a working watch movement, Im putting the brooch in the centre instead. Still a horse theme bracelet but more practical and wearable.
At least if I drop it again no harm will befall it!
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