It takes a big man to fix a tiny mechanism Farid at his Royal Watch Repair booth #11 at 32 West 47 Street (347-852-6296) can take apart your watch, install the right replacement battery, fix anything out of kilter and put it back together again with the time corrected in a few minutes. His tariff is several dollars les than every other watch repair service on Jewelry Row. This burly Afghani left Kabul behind in 2000 to raise a family in New York, and he hopes that the Americans will never leave Afghanistan, where technology is racing ahead of neighboring countries under their influence, with cell phone 4G spreading and 40 channels of TV now broadcast. Even if they do, he is certain that the Taliban will never take over again in a country which now has over 600 colleges. When they were in power, he says, a husband had to carry his marriage license with him if he walked outside with his wife. "Better to have a rich boss than a cheap boss," he says. "They will leave something for you!"