Our 10yr old has gotten ***REALLY*** into mechanical watches & clocks to the point he's on the verge of starting a side gig repairing them. He mentions his hobby to everyone, and a lot of folks have a not-quite-working item sitting around. He's fixed a number of them.

He has had a tough time with an civil war era pocket watch, but was finally able to salvage a compatible part from somewhere, and he got it ticking today. He was so proud, and wants to share with everyone.

#hobby #watchrepair

@aeischeid
I bought an Elgin pocket watch of similar vintage when I was a teen, about ‘79 or so. It mostly worked. Probably would’ve been good with a routine service/cleaning, but every “watch repair” place I took it to refused to work on it.

Got rid of it about 6y ago.