Time-tested tradition continues for Perkins family
PERKINS — Richard Coate works behind magnified lenses at his worn wooden desk, wielding a tiny magnetic tool inside the guts of a dainty watch face. Pieces of other watches scatter the desk’s surface, sacrificed for their spare parts.
The vanishing trade of watchmaking is a Coate family tradition.
Richard Coate shares his workspace with his father, Burt Coate , and some of the tools he uses belonge...
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