Longines Cal 645.1 Circa 1975

This watch been not keeping time and it's late by about five minutes a day.

Petaling Street Watches

Occasionally I visited Petaling Street on the way to Tai Sang Watch to get my spares or tooling. So why not just stop over and get some refresher on what replicas they have in stock.

Citizen 6650A - Date Wheel Not Moving

This Citizen 6650 came in with date not moving and crystal badly scratched. It is an easy repair job and my only worries is spare availability.

Badly scratched crystal

Getting A Higher Quality Tools

After my few practice with watches, I realize that better quality tool is a must in watchmaking. Screwdriver, Loupe and Tweezer these are basic tools that we use daily. I was using "high quality" Chinese made screwdriver and loupe ... but it just don't cut it on the smaller scale of screws.

Decide to give Tai Sang Watch Shop in Wisma Selangor at Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur a visit, they are the Bergeon authorized agent here. They do sell other brand like Horotec but not as a set.

Longines Cal 12.68z

Got this scrapper from the flea market with damage escape wheel, this my first watch repair project. Ordered one escape wheel from ebay and after a very long wait got it, and the watch is done and ticking fine.

I disassemble the watch to learn its mechanism and as a general practice on watch making.

Orient Fineness

Orient Fineness

Timex Indiglo

This watch was introduce around 2010 with Braitone, Timex team effort. A nice quartz and easy to read dial.

Gaya Street Bazaar - Kota Kinabalu

Gaya Street located smack in the center of Kota Kinabalu, they have weekly open air bazaar along this street from 6 am to 1 pm Sunday.

What you find there are clothes, bags, plants, old coins, old notes, few antique copper wares and bowl, souvenir and normal daily utensils.

Kota Kinabalu - Watch Seek

Spend few days in Kota Kinabalu it is the Capital of Sabah a state in Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Apart from watch shop that sell new from Alba to Zenith, I am more interested in old watches that I could repair or even use as spare parts.

Turn out to be a waste of time, maybe people in Kota Kinabalu hold on to their watches or they just not interested in old watches.

Longines

Longines Circa 1975