Another Expensive Hobby - The Price Tag Made Me Take A Step Back!

[Dr. HK]

 

[ttown]

@Dr. HK

Nice little group of watches. Is the Ferguson dial a repo like most of them , if not that dial is a grand by itself. Can’t tell from the picture since it’s a single sunk dial. Of course the back gives them away.

Looks like you have 3 hunters in an open face case, I’d go to eBay and recase those in period cases or go to the link provided for some cases.

I love the BOC cases are all of those 21 jewel? Nice group of watches.

 

[Dr. HK]

Ferguson dial is a repo. I wanted a pocket watch that was Railroad grade, looked good, and serviced.

 

[Dr. HK]

all of the bottom Hamilton watches are 21 jewels and railroad grade. One of them is green gold BOC!

 

[TerryMiller]

So this past year I've began to try my hand at some very basic watch repair. I've taken an in depth online course, consisting of 3 levels and over 60 individual lessons thus far, and have thoroughly enjoyed the process of learning something completely different than anything I'd done in the past. I'm now to the point where to continue my journey it will require the purchase of some specialty tools. I got in to the hobby just by buying the most basic of necessities. Tonight I priced out some specialty equipment that I would need to service certain types of watch movements, to be able to repair certain watch parts rather than simply replacing them, as well as a few upgrades from cheap/chinesium tools to more quality Swiss tools. Well, the total cost (not including shipping or taxes) for these upgrades is $1,923.73 (and that is saving nearly $1,000 on only a few items buy not getting the top tier models)! I guess I'll just put the next round of my watchmaking journey on hold for now!! That's quite a chuck of change, and right now I still love my H&K SP5 way too much to sell it for another hobby. I might consider selling the Staccato, but not the H&K!!

By the way, this cost is only tooling and does not cover any of the lighting upgrades I'd like to do to the workbench. That'll come in time though.

Don't get into photography with the intent of getting digital SLR's and extra lenses.

 

[El Pablo]

Don't get into photography with the intent of getting digital SLR's and extra lenses.

Especially when canon is killing their dslr and you have canon and L lenses....

 

[TerryMiller]

Especially when canon is killing their dslr and you have canon and L lenses....

I hadn't heard that, but I've not been on the photography forums much. I'm certainly glad that the wife has allowed me to make Nikon purchases for several years. I'm pretty much loaded up with the lenses that I've wanted and a few that just happened to become ones I decided I wanted after all.

 

[thor447]

Don't get into photography with the intent of getting digital SLR's and extra lenses.

The thought of macro photography intrigued me. I bought a Nikon D7500 in 2018 (if I remember correctly) but sold it to buy a gun, haha!

 

[TerryMiller]

The thought of macro photography intrigued me. I bought a Nikon D7500 in 2018 (if I remember correctly) but sold it to buy a gun, haha!

Well, it is still a "shooter."

As for the macro photography, back around 2005 the wife and kids bought me a Nikon Coolpix 5700 that I had been eyeing. One of the things that intrigued me was seeing photos done by a lady of frost on the window of her house. With a few of those, she waited until a car came down the road and its lights illuminated the frost in neat patterns. I'll have to see if I can still find those.

Found one. Her name is/was Judy Arndt.

 

[TerryMiller]

Especially when canon is killing their dslr and you have canon and L lenses....

Second thought on your comment. Fortunately for me, Nikon introduced the "FTZ" adapter at the same time of the release of their mirrorless camera bodies so that us Nikon owners could still use their older F-mount lenses. I'll have to check to see if Canon released a similar adapter so their old "L" lenses would fit their mirrorless camera bodies.