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I've been absent for a few months, but have been soldiering on. Next to improving my leather craft skills, made some more Vostok Amphibians. All of them are serviced, modified and run with a beat-error of less than 0.5ms and a DR of max + 5 sec/day. 4x of the 2416b movements have been build from part of various other matching (scrap, 2nd-hand or new) movements like the Vostok 2409 or 2415. Instead of featuring one watch every day, I worn and present them all today This 2416b movement in a Vostok 120 case has featured before, but has now one of my self made veg tan Nato leather straps. This Amphibian in a 420 case has one of the "reassembled" 2416b movements, it runs extremely good Blue scuba-dude dial with matching bezel and Nato-strap. Here an Amphibian "Neptune" in a 960 case. Because the bracelet lugs on this case are special, the new, around $4, solid stainless steel eBay watch-strap had to be modified to suite the lugs....works very well and the strap is of amazing quality. The sun spoils the picture a bit, but still better than raindrops Next up is a "Ministry" (710) case, with 22mm lugs and military Nato-strap. A "single-dot" black bezel insert. This Radio-Room dial sits in a Komandirskie case with a hand-wound 2409 movement. Matching Nato strap. This watch needs some more tinkering. First to make it an automatic movement and I'm looking for the same black Radio Room dial, but with date window.......... hard to find Last one for today: an orange scuba-dude in a 420 case. Automatic 2416b movement with a black date-wheel at 6-o-clock. The leather-strap is not 100% to my liking, and will be replaced with a self-made one. The bezel is nice small and a bit more rare. Three more Amphibian are in the make. Still searching for the right & matching components. That's it for today !

Cheers mates... Today im wearing this very nice big Bullhead, Seiko 6138-0040 Speed-Timer. Made for the Japanese domestic market ... This I also totaly love...big, chunky, shiny.....

Haven't worn this for a bit.. An early Rado..hard to date but probably from the late 70s, early eighties. Not sure of the dial material as Rado used a lot of interesting material but its probably some sort of mineral. It has an iridescent effect in certain light, it also has a grain/striation similar to wood. Its a bit hard to photograph as most of the pics turn out like below! Still has its original Stellux bracelet with old style, non spring-loaded clasp. Weekend is round the corner...! Anil

I have been after one of these for a while and after a cheeky bid on the bay got it. Comes with original instruction leaflet & invoice and looks new,.

One of my favorite chronographs to work on is the Lemania, here is one I overhauled at home two weeks ago for a friend, the hammer had been 'over adjusted' by a watchmaker in the past resulting in not resetting the heart cams correctly, I enjoy micro mechanics and made a replacement with oversized hammers and contact surfaces to allow proper adjustment to be made. The pic on the rodico is it close to completion, spent a little more time on the finish to allow it to 'blend in' as it was a display back, other pic is the completed movement. Time consuming but was a nice rewarding job to work on.

saw this yesterday and I thought you might like it.... LoL

Looking at the link "Kraai" has posted the style of hands you need are named "pear". Also the crystal is flat not domed.Looking at your pic I would say it is glued in position. As a side issue found this useful link re- styles of hands. http://www.watchtalkforums.info/forums/thread27751.html

sort of. https://youtu.be/tYgnc4hHdGo

Receíved two stopwatch movements recently (the two on the right). One was a full movement, the other one had the barrel missing. Also had a case with a Zlatoust dial and a movement containing only the mainplates and the dial side complications. So i decided to make one working stopwatch with the older dial (lookng better in my opinion). DONT TRY TO REMOVE THE HANDS!!! The dial is fixed by two grub-screws found at the movement side. DONT EVEN TRY TO REMOVE THE HANDS!!! Pull upp the dial, the hands will be also lifted. You can see two hearth-shaped steel plates with a steel tube in the next picture taken from the dial side. The steel tube has a brass tube pressed on it, which actually holding the hand. The hand is riveted on the brass piece. Secured position of the hands on the hearth-shaped plate ensures that they always jups to 0 at reset. The hearth-shaped plates are spring-mounted on the wheel pinions, so if one lifting the dial the springs will let off the pinion. I wanted to change the dial so tried to remove the hands. The result is one bent second hand (the big one) and a broken minute hand. It seems that it will be a pain mounting the hands back in the proper position. At first the movement seemed to be a complicated one, but the disassembly is pretty straightforward. Release the tension of the springs first by unhooking them. All of them are mounted with screws so they wont fly away. Then just remove the levers one by one. The next lever has a pin for stopping the balance wheel. And finally the column wheel. The last lever spring didnt wanted to come off so i just left it there. There is nothing unusual on the movement side. First take off the balance assembly. (Last chance to let down the mainspring tension!) Then the pallet fork. Ratchet wheel, click, and clickspring dismounted. The crown wheel is mounted with a spring loaded slipping plate. This is so russian... simpe and easy. And finally take down the three screws holding the main plate. I would like to mention it here, that the whole thing is so ... russisan All parts are rough and "has material in it". Pinions are thick.... I could see oil residues on the pallet staff pinion, which was cogged (where it is ususally not needed) and on one of the gear pinions. No sign of oil in the barrel. I could evel let it down lamely. Nothing special at disassembly, just push down and the cover will pop off. No cleaning needed here, i will just add oil. Balance disassembly, pretty streightfoward. Yes, both end of the balance is broken. It has some "russian amount" of shellac on the impulse jewel. And ready for repivoting.

Well I went for one of these Sundials instead ! Your votes invited Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

The gentleman's choice of watch.... he he ...

Enjoy the forum Steve. Lots here for all levels of horology. Enjoy this friendly forum.

Then there are Dutch who move north ......... !? Velkommen fra Danmark

A very tidy job Brian, thank you for posting it.

Regular watch winders do not charge Seiko Kinetics, because they turn too slow.

I love it!

I like your car Bob ....... for sale ? Do I get the nice watch to it as well ?

More of that:

Most impressive George! Its nice to see that all kinds of watch movment are fixable, I have only doing this for some moths. And it gives so mutch inspiration to move on futher....

.44 mm i dia and 16 mm thick....its a very nice watch, you should get one. This will never fall in price, if you find a good watch, good luck!! Diameter case: ± 43.5mm. / Thickness: ± 15.8mm

mmm, a Seiko with and Orient strap!!

Not really wearing it, but just wanted to show it: Vremia Poljot 3133 Chronograph, almost NOS condition

bert nice Mickey , I am sure you will enjoy toying with it[emoji1303]

Good job, you made it look easy!

I use L&R solutions (see pics below) the Extra fine + 3 watch rinsing solution & have been getting excellent results. I did try Elma but found it a bit to pungent.

Huh. I'll be damned, prices on some of these parts are actually a little less than I would expect, too. Though that first link is either second hand or not genuine, the dial is not pristine.

So found another scrapper ,I put the mainspring and parts together assembled the watch chucked a bit of oil at it and it actually ran, so I'm feeling a bit better now. So I decided to clean and service the movement, scrape the verdigris off and do a proper job and see what it all looks like when it's running properly. OI had quite a bit of work to do when i took it to pieces, screws with out any thread, no minute hand, and it was really dirty , but unbleavable it keeps time ( purley luck ), the dial is`nt the origianl but for the moment i`m not too fussed, i`m sure i will find one eventually. The case has`nt turned out too badly either, i had a few goes & its turned out all right, ive found its best to keep these cases oiled, as they go brown if just left alone. Not too bad really considering it only took a week to do it with the limited time i had.

The friction fitted jewels will clean perfectly well left in place, just remember to clean them out with peg wood before going thru the cleaning cycle. Brian

Ladies (if any) and Gentlemen, here the fourth and last part of the rebuild: Enjoy!

It;s been almost a month since this little journey with this Germinal Voltaire and the AS 1746/47 began , and I am pleased to announce that this little gem is still running properly and keeping good time . Since finishing the repair i ordered a new watchband for it and it arrived today . I choose a Hirsch Wild Boar leather band in a very nice Honey Brown color with White contrasting stitching . I proceeded to sand and polish the crystal , gave the crystal and case a spa treatment in the ultra-sonic , re-assembled the watch and installed the new band . I can honestly say that it's looking pretty spiffy . Once again , Mahalos to all that helped me through this one . I did learn from the experience .

Here's the finished watch I have done an awful lot to this watch. Far beyond the original cost but it was a fun journey. And, it still looks like an OEM Seiko (nearly)