First steps into watchmaking Watches to build yourself for under 100 euros - Anyone looking to get started in watchmaking will quickly find that watchmaking seminars cost several hundred euros, sometimes even over 1,000 euros...
Sooner or later, every watch needs a replacement part. Be it a new strap, a glass or another wearing part - for example as part of a repair/revision...
Hamilton Electric “Ventura” When Samuel Ruben developed the first mercury oxide button cell for the US military in the 1940s, he did not yet know how profoundly this would change the world of technology around 25 years later....
Ernst Westphal / Watchparts24.de About me in brief: Thomas Krim, born in 1955, owner of Ernst Westphal and the associated online shop Watchtparts24.de. I am one of five remaining furniture makers in Germany. And thus a kind of specialist and (wholesale) dealer for new and old watch spare parts, watchmaking supplies and watch accessories of all kinds...
Thomas Krim is a furniture designer. A what? A man who trades in clock parts. Jan Lehmhaus looked into his cabinets, Jürgen Frank took photos...
Between 50 and 100 emails per day, plus countless phone calls and various regular customers who stop by the modern business premises on Nagelsweg near Hamburg Central Station - Thomas Krim, sole owner of the traditional Hamburg watch spare parts wholesaler Ernst Westphal e. K., cannot complain about being bored...
Omega “Constellation Megaquartz 2.4 Mhz” The “McDonnell F-4 Phantom”, which was used as a fighter-bomber by the Air Force until 2013, was often used by pilots as mocking proof that “even a brick can fly if the engines are powerful enough”...
For me, “signs of the times” are watches with exceptional technology, coupled with an avant-garde design, which set a precedent in their respective market segments then (and still do today) – signs of the times, in other words. There are many signs of the times, and I would like to introduce two of them in this article. (The article also appeared on zeigr.com.)...
He is then the one - and often the only one - who can initiate the transformation of "junk" into something "beautiful"...
Interview with Thomas Krim A furniturist is a dealer for individual watch parts or spare parts such as gears, sets of hands, dials, watch glasses, etc. (so-called fittings from the French fourniture = supply, procurement). However, a furniturist is not just “any” dealer...