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Welcome to the forum. Have you had the dial off to look for any markings. When you do this can you also post photos of the keyless works along with the size of the movement. -
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Nahhh you didn't do the wrong thing. You started out on the ST36 and that's great, and you would have fallen down this rabbit hole eventually anyway. Maybe another 12 size Elgin to restore from more dire condition before attempting the harder repairs on this one, but you have a result of some kind here. Oiling should not have a negative effect on your free oscillations, so I would look into a change to the end shake, however tiny, caused by moving your shim. If the shake is just a little bit too much, amplitude can drop in a major way which would show up early in degraded free oscillations. Sometimes it is only a matter of tightening the balance cock screw a little more or shifting the shim a tiny bit, or replacing it if it got compressed too much. All the stuff you have since learned, you can take back to your grandfather's Hamilton and do a true restoration. But practice on 3 or 4 other unimportant pocket watches first. -
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