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Recorded polishing pivots on a vintage Elgin Pocket Watch. Check it out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Or even before, at the barrel shaft. Many mov.ts simply use holes on the plates for that, which become worn out, quite logically as these are the bearing where the highest torques applies. A perfectionist would place jewels there.

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Hi @Andrewolf79 and welcome to the forum. I recently acquired a copy of the U.S. Army Ordinance Maintenance manual for issued clocks, pocket watches and wrist watches (aka TM 9-1575 c.1945). A digital copy can be viewed here: https://archive.org/details/TM9-1575 It's very organized and is full off definitions, tool indexes and illustrations of various sub-assemblies, etc. While make/model specific, I found it very helpful in learning basic concepts and procedures. The tool lists are very comprehensive as well. Hope this helps, C

Marvin watches are very underated and as a result they are good value, an inhouse movement if I'm not mistaken. Only thing is most of them come in Gold-plated cases which wear terribly. Willfly, yours is one of the few stainless steel and its in beautiful condition! Anilv

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Well, I decided to remove the piece just to see how consistent the readings would be. This was my very first time using the device and as time goes, I'll probably develop a technique through trial and error. Moving it to a different position and back seems like a good suggestion. After re-checking both watches, both are reading amplitudes between 285 and 305. It seems to have settled down just a bit. As for accuracy and precision... Wow, I'm really impressed. The 7S26C was the one adjusted to 0.0 ms beat error. I wore it all day and it held perfect time. As best as I can tell, it's either dead-on or within 1/2 second of NTP. It sill reads no beat error in most of the 6 positions and it still shows +4s/day in the face down position. That's exactly where it was set to yesterday. The other watch (7S36) was not worn today and gained 7 seconds sitting face-up since it was set about 30 hours ago. I did wind it a little here and there. Its beat error showed 0.3ms and read +5s/day in the face-down position. Those readings have drifted a little from where they were last set. I'll wear this one soon and see how it performs. -Fun stuff for sure... Ray

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Have some female stem parts but can't say if they will work on your male part. i will also check if i have something in my drawers