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·Hello all,
I am a newly registered member wanting to introduce myself. My name is Jean-Francois, but I go by JF and I am located in Canada. I am a big fan of forums and special interest clubs. I was directed to this forum by my local watch club because of my ever growing interest in watches specifically of the vintage variety. I love to learn and have spent many hours reading threads here before getting the nerve to sign up. Learned I have and I am thankful to be able to continue doing so. I signed up to be able to ask a question here or there.
As someone in their early thirties I must say that my interest in watches was almost non existent until about five years ago when I started a new career on the railroad. Sure, like most, my father bought me my first watch when I was a child for school. I always wore one in those days, usually digital, but with the advent of the cell phone I, like most, viewed watches as an obsolete tool. Being a new hire on the railroad forced me to acquire a watch since wearing one is mandatory. Annoyed, I bought a thirteen dollar special while I was buying some new steel toes at a big box work outfitter. I started my new career during the month of December. Needles to say it gets cold on the Canadian prairies in the winter and I was outside for eight or more hours. My thirteen dollar special did not live past my first month. I am fond of tinkering so I poked at it, opened it up, realised that cheap is cheap and that I was holding in my hand utter trash. This lead to my first google search pertaining to watches. It went something like 'which watch can I bang in the cold?' and now here I am, a complete novice who has found a love for watches which I would have never thought could be the case. There is simply something magical about an automatic movement that one cannot fathom until they see it with their own eyes. Now if I believe a watch movement to be magical, it would appear that I have found Disneyland with this forum.
To a fruitful exchange,
JF
I am a newly registered member wanting to introduce myself. My name is Jean-Francois, but I go by JF and I am located in Canada. I am a big fan of forums and special interest clubs. I was directed to this forum by my local watch club because of my ever growing interest in watches specifically of the vintage variety. I love to learn and have spent many hours reading threads here before getting the nerve to sign up. Learned I have and I am thankful to be able to continue doing so. I signed up to be able to ask a question here or there.
As someone in their early thirties I must say that my interest in watches was almost non existent until about five years ago when I started a new career on the railroad. Sure, like most, my father bought me my first watch when I was a child for school. I always wore one in those days, usually digital, but with the advent of the cell phone I, like most, viewed watches as an obsolete tool. Being a new hire on the railroad forced me to acquire a watch since wearing one is mandatory. Annoyed, I bought a thirteen dollar special while I was buying some new steel toes at a big box work outfitter. I started my new career during the month of December. Needles to say it gets cold on the Canadian prairies in the winter and I was outside for eight or more hours. My thirteen dollar special did not live past my first month. I am fond of tinkering so I poked at it, opened it up, realised that cheap is cheap and that I was holding in my hand utter trash. This lead to my first google search pertaining to watches. It went something like 'which watch can I bang in the cold?' and now here I am, a complete novice who has found a love for watches which I would have never thought could be the case. There is simply something magical about an automatic movement that one cannot fathom until they see it with their own eyes. Now if I believe a watch movement to be magical, it would appear that I have found Disneyland with this forum.
To a fruitful exchange,
JF
