"Restoring History: Repairing the Vintage WWII Bulova A11 Military Watch

In this video Mike takes on a small but mighty watch a Bulova A11. This watch is only 30mm in diameter yet it was commissioned by the American military for WW2. Watch had to be legible, a good quality movement 16 jewels or more, it had to have 10 minute scale on the dial for timings and most importantly it had to be hackable. This was so the troops could all synchronise their watches which was of the upmost importance.
Watch as Mike carefully unravels the years on the Bulova to get to the cause if its failure to run and show you how he takes on the challenge of cleaning and repairing this piece to keep good time again preserving this significant piece in military horological history.

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About me:
My name is Mike and I am a hobbyist watchmaker. I am completely self-taught in watch repair and restoration. My channel is all about my journey of hobbyist of watchmaking. I have watch repair tutorials, watch restorations and watch repair videos. Some of my content you can easily follow along to if you are working on the same watch movement. My main focus is to document my journey and inspire more people into this wonderful hobby and demonstrate that this hobby can be very rewarding. I do not profess to be a professional watchmaker and in my videos, I show all my mistakes, mishaps, highs and lows and keep everything as honest as possible. It is easy to edit all the mistakes out and make my videos look perfect but I believe that keeping it real reflects the true reality of this hobby. So what are you waiting for? please check out my watch repair and restoration videos, get inspired and start your own watchmaking journey.

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