Introduction

At the beginning of 2011, I took up watchmaking/repairing as a hobby not only to make some money towards my very first watch, but to better understand the inner workings of these mechanical wonders. Taking up watchmaking was truly when my passion for watches began. I've come to appreciate the incredible finishes of haute horlogerie along with the numerous complications that the world of horology has to offer because I began to realize the sheer amount of time that goes into each and every hand-made timepiece.

I decided to create this blog to share my passion with my fellow horology enthusiasts and to document the projects that I will undertake on the path to my very first watch.

Thanks for taking a visit and I hope you enjoy what I've done!

Thursday, August 22, 2013

My Ever-growing Ledger

This is a quick post about one of my favorite parts of selling watches: filling in my ledger. I'm a fairly old-fashioned guy (go figure, I'm interested in antique watches), so when I began my watchmaking hobby, I liked the idea of a hand-written ledger. I've only filled out about four pages worth (roughly 40-50 watches), but the simple act of writing in yet another sale on one of the lines is surprisingly rewarding.

 On each line, I have the maker, city, year, case, running condition, serial number, other markings/features, date sold, and price sold of the watches. For obvious reasons, I've cut off the prices sold in the picture below. The different colors correlate to different regions of origin - red is for Swiss watches, blue for English, and green for American and others.

 Again, this wasn't meant to be a long and terribly intriguing post, but it goes more into the inner-workings of my watchmaking hobby, which I hope is of some interest to you!

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