off the proverbial pot.

[solipsistnation]

So I finally signed up for the Time Zone Watch School, figuring that at least I can get some directed study toward figuring out how to clean and fix up watches. Now I have access to their forums, which, just as I suspected, are some of the lamest forum software I've ever seen... It doesn't seem to use any kind of actual authentication for posting or anything, and it only threads in a rudimentary fashion, and really looks more like a mailing-list web archive sites. I suppose, considering that these are people who have devoted endless amounts of time and effort to maintaining mechanical devices made obsolete many times in the past decade, that I should be glad they're on the web at all, and not just writing letters to magazines and meeting for dinner once a month... (They do all that too, though.) Still, it'd be nice to have a watch forum site that didn't actually injure my brain every time I look at it...

Comments

[duncanpickard.livejournal.com]

I did not know you were a fellow mechanical watch geek!

I have an 1888 Elgin and an 1877 Elgin. What are your best pieces?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

My best piece is... a 2003 Swatch Irony Diaphane automatic! Skeletonized ETA 2841 in a classy plastic case with a stainless steel and rubber band. It's very classy.

I have a selection of random Waltham 17-jewel wristwatches, too, with the vague intention of getting them to run, making them nice, and giving them to people as gifts or selling them or something. Pretty exciting. 8)

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

You could always volunteer to install PHPBB for them or something. ;-)