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Very limited in time at the moment but want to try and do semi-homemade watches for me and the wife before the autumn ends. First day this year in the garage. Starting with the wife's as this "should" be the easier as it must be a quartz. Total hobbyist at this, and although I have a rough idea of what I am trying to achieve, making a lot of it up as I go along. Hope to share progress on this forum for anyone who is interested Dial 0.2mm brass sheet Cut out and superglued onto a brass 3mm disc (machined from 10SWG sheet) Drill centre hole 1.1mm (was going to be 1.0mm but I snapped the drill bit) Swap onto the smaller lathe Mark out the dial diameter Aldi today selling routers for £24.99. Perfect to fix an old Gravograph I bought ages ago on ebay with dead motor Test piece which will go on the watch box as a plaque. Can now do engraving on the case back of the gents watch (later project still in the head) This is movement for my wife's watch. Ronda 1042. Smallest I could find which suites what I think I will need. Beside is a 5pence piece to give scale. Had to be a quartz as winding and setting the time was an absolute no no for the user Showing with dial in position. Decided I will try to attach with dial stickers rather then solder on feet (more chance of disaster and no time to keep scrapping) Trying bath repair enamel. Will leave this for a week to set. Hopefully not too high and works ok Square lump of silver. Starting the casing 10mm hole to start things off

Yes many thanks found one at cousins under Cyma. The watch came without the mainspring the barrel and arbor and everything else is there just no spring.

Sometimes Tavannes comes under Cyma. You need to read their history about their making of watches to understand the reason. Do you have any of the mainspring to measure for height and strength, what about the size of the barrel and arbor and what type of end should the spring be.

I'm a newb that has been through TimeZone Watch School Level 1 and am working on Level 2. I hope to be able to turn this hobby into a revenue stream far off in retirement. So I have some time to practice. As a Kansas Citian, I have the privilege of being within a drive of one of the coolest watch shops in the Midwest: Cool Vintage Watches. My favorite watch in my collection is a blue Hamilton Pan Europ Day-Date.

Now i go into my workshop to make a faceplate for the ER20 "lathe"

I think now we need to go about this bit by bit. You say when the hands and dial are fitted it stops. So do this, remove the dial and hands and just put the hour hand on and test, if all is ok put the minute hand on and test, if it has a seconds hand that should be next if no hand put the dial on and make sure you have a good fitting washer that goes over the hour wheel, don't case up the movement and don't screw the dial to the movement, just place the dial on the movement. Then get back if all is ok.

I don't agree there? It could work? But as oldhippy says it's better to find some spare screws? i bought a spare screw box from redrosteruk on ebay. I think a few others has bought that to?

I am extremely busy these days. Started a blog a while ago. Here are the last pictures of the disassembly. I will start cleaning and assembly next week (hopefully). Cheers Alexander

You're welcome Don. It's a nice looking tool and I'm glad you fixed it easily.

In keeping with the whole Russian theme my old beaten up vostok Paratrooper looks like it went to syberia and back but keeps excellent time about 3 seconds a day in all positions you cant argue with that .

A couple of days ago Mr Postman brought me this a near complete vintage staking set that id bid on on the bay and didnt expect to win. It looked like it had spent the last 20 years in a damp shed every punch had welded itself into the wooden base and were in a little rusty but after 2 days ultrasonic cleaning and polishing are now nice and ready to use. I've had to dry the base out slowly in a very low heat oven and then re-drill every seating hole but for £40 and a bit of elbow grease I'm now the happy owner of something I didn't own and will stop me bugging the local professional watch repairer for the use of his which I'vs always been very grateful to him for.

Hello from another TimeZone Watch School student!

Hello from me. Lots of stuff for you on this friendly forum. Nice looking watch.

Sorry for the delay with the progress report, but this has been one of these three steps forward and two steps backward jobs. It transpired that there were more issues than I first thought. To reiterate the obvious problems:- Centre Second Fourth Wheel - The gear wheel was off the shaft. Escape Wheel - The wheel was off the shaft. Auto Reversing Wheel - In bits. Oscillating Weight Bearing - In bits. Intermediate Ratchet Wheel - Separated. Intermediate Date Wheel - Separated. Lume on minute hand damaged Lume on dial stained with oil. The watch as received. I eventually worked out how so many components were in bits that come assembled from Omega. The watchmaker before me had tried to clean surface rust off virtually everything except the balance assembly, by soaking in rust remover which is phosphoric acid. This resulted in not only rust, but steel being eaten away allowing the wheels to fall off the shafts and pivots having a rough finish and being reduced in size. I had two attempts at assembling the watch, but unfortunately kept finding other damage. The eventual parts list required was:- Escape Wheel Centre Seconds Fourth Wheel Auto Reverser Wheel Bearing For Oscilating Weight Intermediate Ratchet Wheel Intermediate Wheel Escapement Lever Barrel Arbour Intermediate Date Wheel Ratchet Driving Wheel Third Wheel Cannon Pinion With Driving Wheel Mainspring Total Cost £320 (not helped by postage on multiple orders) THE ASSEMBLY. Starting point, the bare main plate. Keyless work assembled. Barrel bridge with wheels and click spring in place. Click plate fitted. Barrel, ratchet wheel, intermediate wheel, and barrel bridge assembly fitted. Escape wheel, third wheel and fourth centre second wheel positioned. Wheel train bridge fitted. Pallet fork and pallet bridge fitted. Date mechanism and cannon pinion with driving wheel in place. Date jumper located. Date ring retaining plates fitted. Wheel train and revering wheel located in the automatic device framework. Automatic device lower bridge fitted. Auxiliary reverser fitted. Oscillating weight bearing fitted. (I had to make a tool to tighten the nut) Oscillating weight fitted to automatic device framework, held by the three screws in the centre. Completed automatic device ready for fitting to movement. Balance assembly and oscillating weight assembly fitted to movement. Dial and re- lumed hands fitted. The new lume certainly works! Movement cased and running strongly. The scrap. The result! That's All Folks!