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‘Mechanical watch can function for 500 years’
A mechanical watch can last 500 years, but a digital watch can last only 10 to 15 years, says a watchmaker who has been in the profession for the last 52 years.
Nezihi Arıcı repairs mechanical watches, from antique watches dating back to the 1800s to pocket watches of the most famous brands of the period, in his shop in Istanbul's Kadıköy district.
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Watchmaker repairs 16th-century vintage watches, clocks in Yozgat
Yalçın Meral, an antique watch enthusiast in the central Anatolian province of Yozgat, reproduces and repairs the missing or damaged pieces of antique pocket watches designed by British and French watchmakers during the 16th-century Ottoman period.
Meral works for weeks or even months to hear the "tick-tock" sound from antique watches, which are over 4 centuries old.