With so many things being counterfeited these days, like American goods being counterfeited in China, it can be hard to know the genuine article from the counterfeit.  I’ve enjoyed watches pretty much my whole life, learning to work on them from a child. My dad did watchmaking part time, and watching him take a broken watch and make it run again made me want to learn to do it too.  And before long I had a small collection of various watches.  Most of them were “cheapies”, as I was just a kid, but Dad worked on some pretty expensive ones, too. Continue Reading »