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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by noufalibrahim on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:24AM (#48828267)
I'm glad fountain pens came up here. There's a shop a few hours away from where I stay in an old town in India called the "Pen Hospital". It was a thriving business in the 60s when my father went to college. Lots of people came there mostly to repair fountain pens. He's mostly just a stationery store right now but if you take a fountain pen there for repair, he does it for free just as a nod to the tradition I guess.
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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by ricardobayes on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:45AM (#48828424)
My friend told me when he visited India that they repair everything over there: it's a beautiful thing IMO
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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by noufalibrahim on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:03AM (#48828555)
That's an exaggeration. Things are not as repairable as they used to be and people are not as thrifty as they used to be. However, I do think the culture of repairing things is strong and mostly financially motivated.
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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by cik on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @04:44AM (#48829302)
My dream is to visit this store. I've heard that it's by far the greatest modern fountain pen store in the world. I'm dying to go, just for this. I've ordered from them before - all the way to Canada and Israel. A gem, might be my favourite store in the world.
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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by noufalibrahim on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:45AM (#48830672)
I don't know if that's the same. There's another here called Kim and Co. which makes ebonite pens without fillers. They became popular via. social media and a lot of people ordered pens from them. Perhaps that's the one you're referring to?
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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by cik on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:22AM (#48831618)
No, I'm referring to Pen Hospital in Kolkata: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kolkata-pen-hospital. By ordered, I mean had friends who have stumbled across it and brought me things. If there were a website mind you.

I don't have the socials, so I don't see things like what you mentioned.

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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by noufalibrahim on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:32AM (#48841021)
Ah. This is something I'm not familiar with. This is the Pen Hospital I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2a_yKeCS7M
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Re:Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 y... by cik on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:16AM (#48933445)
Oooh thank you!
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