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Here's my most recent addition to the collection, now serviced...

Hi Folks would anyone know the novodiac Spring size for the ETA 2836 please. cousins list them as 1.25mm 1.45mm 1.60mm and 1.65mm as ever, many thanks for your help

You say you're a newbie, Mechphil. I only recently graduated from that status. Do you know how to let down the power of the mainspring by holding the crown and preventing the click from engaging the mainspring? That should be the first thing you do. When the mainspring is completely depleted of energy, see if you can wind it. If it winds then but doesn't run, the problem is not likely to be in the stem and mainspring. (It could be, of course, but it's less likely.) If it still doesn't wind, then the winding mechanism is the first place to look for problems. I am a physician by vocation and a watchmaker by avocation, but I bring some of the outlook of the former to the latter. The most common misdiagnosis is underdiagnosis. It may well be that your old watch has more than one problem. Good luck! --Eric

Do you know the caliber of the movement ? Any pics

It has eyes thats groovy

Here is one I got recently, not really a big name brand here in states, but it does have a running eta 2789. someone had dial redone by a sixth grader

Keepin' it in theme with Russian watches... Sent from my SM-G925T using Tapatalk

I can only imagine there is warehouse, somewhere, full of these watches! So do I....

Hi Clayton I've sent you a pm as still couldn't paste the urls in a post Rgds Stuart

water resistant 100ft? even its namesake can't do that! This is so much better.. cheers

I've attached some documents that will help you with your watch including the test points. 1342_complet_2302.pdf 1342_complet_4216.pdf Omega 1342 test.PDF

Congratulations from me as well, I stripped and reassembled my bro in laws watch as my first, it was not so much excitement as sheer relief that it worked, it was just gummed up really and needed a service. I was lucky it kept good time as well. I have since acquired the timegrapher and spent quite a bit on tools as well but sometimes I just like to look at them and clean them a bit - oh dear that sounds weird, but tools are great. Cheers, Vic

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This pic from my albums had likes elsewhere so why not

Anything is possible...!

One thing I ask when repairing/servicing a watch is I ask the customer how they wear the watch. I ask this so when regulating the watch I can get the positional error in favour of how the watch is going to be worn. i.e my wife wears her watch with the crown facing away from her wrist, some take their watch off at night so for approx 7 hours it runs dial up. Another question I ask is how well the watch was keeping time before it stopped etc. If I am told it runs a bit fast I explain that I should be able to improve this BUT mechanical watches will lose or gain over time it is just impossible to achieve perfect timing.

In my and I suppose everyone else's opinion probably the best purchase you can make.