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Now One of the things that's always helpful when asking for help for any watch would be which watch exactly are we talking about? Because the definition of small pocket watch doesn't exactly do it for us. Do we have a name of who made the movement and typically that's not the name on the dial. I find your quote really quite fascinating? Lacking knowledge of the movement is quite a hindrance in this discussion. Then there are companies that make balance completes for replacing in watches. No need to try to order from the manufacturer as that isn't going to happen anyway. Then I think it would be helpful to clarify something? You're helping the charity shop I'm understanding at the extreme the lowest price to achieve what goal? So in other words all you have to do is get the watch to run for a few seconds a few minutes long enough to sell it and clear it out and make a profit correct? What I'm getting at here is were going to throw conventional watch repair practices out the window and go with whatever we need to do which means you could just Glue with whatever you have. It's not the recommended procedure but I'm interpreting were not using the recommended procedures we want to do fast quick repairs I get these things out the door correct? -
That does look promising to be repairable without having to start threading and tapping things. -
To be honest I never use calipers when bending a balance bridge as I'm checking the end shake as I do it a little at a time. Now that you've bent your bridge how Has it changed your end shake?
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@nevenbekriev @JohnR725 @mbwatch So I’ve attempted to bend the bridge as best I could. It’s difficult for me to use my (cheap) calipers as a reference point because they don’t lock, but I did my best. My bet is that I bent the bridge by maybe 0.1mm. Enough that I could see a difference with my naked eye through my loop, looking at displacement at the end of the bridge. With that done, I re-attached the balance wheel and did the oscillation tests again. No real change. DD is about 45 seconds, DU similar (though a little harder to measure upside down). In terms of the hairspring @nevenbekriev, looking closely, to my inexperienced eye, it looks as if the coils are slightly tighter on one side of the hairspring relative to the other. They don’t appear to be touching, but there is less separation between the coils. -
By RichardHarris123 · Posted
I would go for the red Loctite
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