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Just for a change - some J.S. Bach on my tenor guitar... Gavotte No. 1 - Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 in D major

Hi there, Rogart 63! I just want to let you know that I received a package from you this morning (Friday) and I will be writing to you, very soon. In the mean time, please accept my eternal gratitude for all your help. Very Sincerely. Len.

Exactly!

The excitingly-named: www.balancestaffs.com - who also operate www.windingstems.com.

Colin Andrews, with his informative webpage: http://great-british-watch.co.uk just came out with this very educational polishing article; http://great-british-watch.co.uk/how-to-polish-a-watch-case-and-bracelet/ Thought people may be interested to know.......

I guess it depends a lot on the context, usually when you discover battery leakege it's been like that for a number of weeks, right? I would assume the chemical reactions that take place already have. And every chemical has a finite amount of reactions, You put lithium in water and it will catch on fire and burn out, it won't keep going forever, that's basically true of everything. I guess you could make the exemption that the corrosion could make an electric short, joining two parts that shouldn't. going back to those abrasive pen brushes, if you really want to clean a circuit thoroughly, chances are you can do so with the fiberglass pen without damaging the components, though I don't think i'd ever try that (or anything) on the coil.

You have better to find a movement for parts : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Rendex-cal-1213-wristwatch-movement-with-stem-full-set-of-hands-and-stem-/291718243693?hash=item43ebc3256d:g:GmYAAOSwpRRWpSdm

Ouch! How about this http://watchpart.co.uk/1013-5200-ronda-p-1811.html you may be able to find cheaper still with some googling S

I didn't noticed the watch has a bezel. Not all of this style do.

I would say so Buzz.

Yes, grab that thick glass with a crystal lifter.

While I really hope you're right about smart "watches" never fully displacing real watches, there are actually two ways to improve the battery life: better battery technology, or more energy efficient electronics. My first computer back in the late 70s used about 10W of power (2MHz 8-bit processor, 4KB RAM). My second most recent computer used 120W (3GHz 32-bit processor, 4GB RAM). My latest computer is back to 10W (2GHz 64-bit processor, 16GB RAM), is about the same performance as my second latest, and is almost completely silent because it puts most of its energy into computing, not heating the room, and thus doesn't need to run the fan much. It's probably safe to predict that in 5 or 10 years, a smartwatch with today's capabilities could probably run for a year off of a button cell.

Come on chaps only one reply Davey57 needs more suggestions. Davey57 I can't help I never did quartz repairs I hated the blighters.

Working from home today, so I decided to keep it simple.

Mark's video is great if you're looking for a very very good tutorial.

As I am on 2 weeks leave from work (Lecturer), I have had some time to reflect on my new hobby. Although I have a neurological problem with my hands (Numb, Painful & Shaking) I have managed to repair and service 2 Seiko automatic watches, although missing a few parts after them taking flight, searching the table and floor I have found them in my beard, now to most of you here on the forum this is probably nothing special, but to me it's a great achievement, my family insisted that I was wasting my money and time on new tools and equipment because of the tiny parts I would be working on. Today is a bad day for me, my hands are very shakey and painful, so no watch work today, however, I can just about master a keyboard, so, I would like to thank everyone on this site for their great advice and support for my new found love (yeah I really love trying to fix things) I am a member of a few forums for different things outside of horology, but the support here is better than most, just fantastic, I would also like to add a special thank you for Mark who in my opinion has put together an amazing website and a great community. So, again a BIG thanks to everyone, I look forward to my next project knowing that I have the support of the WRT community. Den

Cheers guys... gone shopping! Buzz

Hi Dave, thank you for your warm welcome as well. I just had a look ad the Sinn EZM10. I wasn't aware that Sinn does inhouse calibers as well. Highly interesting. Wonderful watch. I had two Sinns, a 856 UTC in black and a 956. The 956 I traded in for an Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT. The 856 I sold recently to the US in favor of an Explorer II GMT from a well known swiss manufacturer. Still a bit ashamed because I never wanted to wear a watch from this company because it seemed to me too much of showing up. But this one is really nice and decent and the normal non-watch-addict won't see from a short glimpse what make it ist. And I can always say it's a replica . I had to travel a lot for some tome and looked for real GMT watches. I had to learn that there are two kinds of GMT watches: if I remember right the first group is an Office GMT where you use the GMT hand to show the tine of another place in the world. Like the Sinn 856 with an ETA 2893-2 movement. So I found that such a watch was pretty useless when travelling. The Explorer II as well as the Omega are from the second group. The hour hand can be adjusted separately in the second position of the crown. The hour hand jumps in hour steps then. Pretty cool. The GMT hand stays where it is so you always have a reference to the time at home. Most useful if you travel. Cannot be used in Brazil (too expensive ==> too dangerous) and in India (4.5 hours time difference to Europe - how can they do it, don't they know there are watch addicts out there???). To my 50ies birthday I gifted myself with a Breitling Transocean Unitime which is the ultimative GMT watch for me. I may introduce it here. I got it from some dealer over Chrono24 with a considerable discount and traded a Chronoswiss in. When I start swarming about watched I cannot stop. Cheers Alexander

Joking aside it was my grandson,s who asked me to fix it. Yes really, phew just a battery required

Does it look like this? If it does, it is a Ronda 1213...So knowing this you may be able to locate the staff from different suppliers...if it exists. Geo mentioned a link in another post where you can order about any staff you need. Maybe he will post it here later. I don't remember it, though. In the meantime you can check CousinsUK and others. Cheers, Bob

Just finished mine.

Apologies for the long absence but life has a habit of keeping me away from my watch projects, and today is the first opportunity to give things another go. I was just beginning to think that the battery was never going to go back in when all of a sudden it did! Turns out the positive terminal locates against the side of the battery, although it is very fiddly to achieve this, but once in place it does seem very secure. I've added a photo to show what it should look like and as you can see the positive terminal is not quite fully seated, although it is screwed tight. Having got the battery to stay in situ I wasn't minded to start fiddling again! I've also added a photo of the finished article. The face was in perfect condition, so I just replaced the glass and cleaned up all the metalwork. No attempt to get any of the dings out of the case - partly because I don't have the equipment or time, but mainly because they are part of our history together. Once again many thanks for all of your help. Regards Paul

No - my Hamilton X-Wind!

Come on Bob your just jealous

Nikon J3 + 50mm Pentax + macro bellows + stand + led lights.

Edited the link - should work fine now - and add to your collection by all means.

Nice to know you are doing what you like and enjoying it. Finding bits of watch in your beard, I burst out laughing.

Have two EB8021 in my boxes? One with incabloc and the other without. Send a PM if you are interested. Both have complete balance . And i think the balance would work in the EB 8020?

I saw this technique on you tube a while ago and decided to give it a try today. Old lume is certainly something you do not want to be breathing in, so the safest way is to remove it under water. All you require is an ultrasonic cleaner, a piece of pith wood and a couple of matchsticks. Trim the matchsticks to fit the hole in the hand and delicately press them into the centre of the hands. I find the best way is to lay the hands on the pith wood face up and then press the matchsticks into the hands. Once you have done that, press the matchsticks into the pith wood as in the pictures below. Now take the pith wood complete with hands and float in the top of the water in the ultrasonic tank. The lume on the hands will be facing downwards as in the following pictures. Give the hands a blast for three minutes in the tank, and all the lume will be safely removed leaving spotlessly clean hands ready for the new lume. See below. :)

Today I went with a what I consider to be a nice 1965 Omega Seamaster Cosmic, I have always particularly liked this watch.

Yes I figured it out thanks as the attach option was hidden in the "More Options" section. I'm not used to this particular forum software but will soon get used to it. I'm interested in more or less all kinds of watches, mostly mechanical analog watches but the 1970's LED and LCD watches are kind of fun too which was why I chose to wear that one yesterday. I was never a fan of them at the time but have grown to like them more over the years. You don't see many of them around anymore, especially on someone's wrist! and so it seemed appropriate to wear it. As it is now a new day, a new watch was called for and the pick of te day is a slightly tidier retro Jules Jurgenson Quartz watch.

Here's a few. I made this today for tightening the nut when replaing a rotor bearing on an Omega 1120. Pair of levers (only one shown) great for hands and especialy snap case backs. Balance tack. Minute hand puller for an Atmos clock. Movement holder for Atmos clock.