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While Manitobans primarily only worry about adjusting their clocks twice a year — including springing forward an hour this weekend — it’s often a daily routine for Ilya Goldman.
Goldman is a horologist — in other words someone who makes and repairs watches and clocks. It’s a career he’s been passionate about for 35 years, including the past 11 with Appelt’s Diamond Jewellery.
The most interesting timepieces he works on are usually highly complicated — watches with chronographs, alarms or minute repeaters. These watches have hundreds of intricate components and advanced mechanisms, which require experience, patience and careful attention to detail.
Over the years, Goldman has worked on many prestigious brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet. In some cases, he’s worked on rare watches worth up to $400,000.
Whether in daylight or standard time, business just ticks along.
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Horologist Ilya Goldman takes apart a Hamilton automatic watch.
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Horologist Ilya Goldman takes apart a Hamilton automatic watch.
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Horologist Ilya Goldman takes apart a Hamilton automatic watch.
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Parts are placed into a cleaning basket.
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The work requires patience and precision.
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When a watch is brough in for repairs, it is taken apart, cleaned, checked for wear and oiled before being reassembled.
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Goldman with some of the watches awaiting servicing.
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