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Spending a pleasant Sunday afternoon overhauling a Rolex 3135 at home, nice to work on as it goes together so well with bridges practically falling into place.

These are my only two wrist watches. Because My old fingers don't work with little tiny parts like the used to. The one on the left is my wife's granddads a 1938 Hamilton " Dodson" 17jewel 974a The one on the right is a 1960 Hamilton "Bolton ll" 22jewel 770 model. I wear them sometimes and the keep really great time. If you would like I will open them up and post photos of the movements

Plus is the watch runs great.

Today I'm wearing another modified Vostok Amphibian. SuperLuminova paddle hands, black seconds-hand and black date-wheel. Movement is a repaired automatic 2416b, 0.3 beat-error. Watch case used to be a Vostok 090 case, but modified to a 120 case. Silicon diver-strap with folding SS-clasp and a 5x luminous dots bezel-insert. Perhaps a light coloured leather-strap will be also nice......

Can't stop wearing it !

I was sorting through some old boxes in the garage the other day and came across this ! my mum bought it for me when I was about 11 or 12 years old, I gave it a few winds and it's still working so I thought I'd post it.

The other day I showed the screwdriver sharpening rig I made while the last coat of lacquer dried on my pocket watch & said I would showed you how it turned out. So here it is. The case is engraved with " U.S. Shipping Board" , which was formed before WW1 when it looked like the US would enter the war. We apparently had only a tiny merchant navy. It's job was to build ships & train crews to man them. You can Google it & find out more if your interested. The case is nickel & the before picture will show you how bad it was. I spent a long time polishing it & putting a movement, dial, ane crystal. It was still a bit dull so I used lacquer to fill in the letters. I think it will add a lot to my collection. What do you think

the GMT Master 2 in black and red bezel is really nice, nothing but complements when people see it[emoji1303]

I recently acquired this Bell & Ross BR03 - 92 Aviation watch that I had been wanting to get this year . This one came with a signed Bell and Ross stainless bracelet . I really hadn't seen any of this model with a Stainless Steel bracelet before . I installed a silicone rubber B & R strap until I get one of the leather straps . It's the 42mm model and I believe they have a 46mm version . It has a bright blue lume that is very easily read owing to the large uncluttered dial .

Aloha All , the post office finally delivered this Rolex Oyster Date Precision to me today . I was held up in customs since April 21 and I had to furnish paperwork to them showing what I paid for this item . After I gave the letter carrier $85 to cover duties , VAT , and another fee I finally got my watch . Yes , it has a repainted dial , but other than that , it's a beauty . I especially like the end pieces on the leather band . It's about 34 or 35mm which is about the smallest case size I will wear . All in All , I do like it .......

Recently serviced (not by me) Swiss Hamilton and my Fathers service award clock.(Hermle movement)

The watches and movements are really nice. Built to last. Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

There both very nice watches with good movements.

Lovely. Reminds me that I have to replace my base model as nothing can be seen in pictures.

Scroll down on both pages!

Interesting info here... http://www.hamiltonchronicles.com/2012/08/1940-boulton.html http://www.hamiltonchronicles.com/search?q=Dodson Always nice to learn something from other people's watches

Welcome from Florida, JG! Looking forward to your posts! Cheers, Bob

This type of movement is not the best to start with in fact for someone starting out they can be very fiddly. Your best bet is to start with a simple time piece. If you intend to work on watches then some types of pocket watches are the best because some of the movements are like watch movements only a lot bigger. Clocks are totally different to watch movements.

wow ! I am jealous Tim , Fantastic job

Looks like someone had fun this weekend , Good job Brian

Love that AluMeeNum !

Welome JG enjoy the forum.

Welcome and do post your watch challenges here, lot's of good info and experience.

Welcome to this friendly forum. Lots of info for you here. Look forward to your input.

Thanks . I had gone window shopping in a high end shop in Waikiki , [Tourneau ] , and saw the Bell and Ross line and had to have one . I realize that it has a large presence , but when you see and wear it ,....it's nice . I do like it .

It was like new , a real beauty . BUT , it was just too small for my wrist . I tried wearing it once and even thought I didn't want to admit it ,..it was too small for me . I sold it with no problem . As a mater of fact there was a line waiting to get it . I had given a colleague the right of first refusal so he could take it home and show his wife to see if she wanted it . He came back the next day with a fist full of dollars .

Can't blame you. It's so nice to see a nice clear dial without all the bling they put in today's huge watches Some of the latest models look more like pinball machines than watches. Maybe I am getting tooo old....

I find Sector (Chronostar) to be an under appreciated brand, we don't see them very often in North America. I bought this interesting Chronostar a few months ago, except for the movement and back it's all aluminium (case, crown, band). It's rather large (it occupies as lot of wrist space) and has an unusual green tinge that you don't see well in the picture and it weighs nothing.

It just warms my heart to see these, I have a Timex (the small boy type case) which I received as a Christmas present as well. Every so often, I give it a few turns just to see the magic again. Thanks for posting this.

amazing outcome, it looks like it came out of the factory.

Whoa, didn't know about that. Thanks.

From what I can remember you just press down and turn and the ring clip thing just pops over the edge. If you post pictures that might help seeing the bits.

A couple of weeks ago I came across a Ruhla watch on ebay, never seen one before so I bought is as a curio in good working condition, made in GDR so I suppose if it were a car it would be a Trabant or a Wartburg !. Then I found another listed as '' not working spares or repairs '' £2.99 + postage it arrived a couple of days later. It was fully wound & solid, when I took the back off it was half full of sand ! , the seller being in Torquay it must have been on the beach. The movement is contained between two steel plates and after removing the balance & fork the whole thing comes apart in one go. The date change wheel & setting lever are nylon The seconds hand shaft is floating with a tension spring so needs to be supported when refitting the second hand After reassembly it came back to life with just a couple of clicks ! fully wound running about 40 hours. Thanks for reading. Phil.

Quick update for all those who offered advice. The watch does open from the front, after much gentle prising etc I discovered that a small screwdriver placed under the bezel at the 3 o'clock position and gently prised releases the bezel. Thanks again to you all for your help.

I think your find its American. It has all the signs of an American striking movement. Over the years I have restored many American striking clocks. I would like a closer photo of the movement if that's possible.

I would go with Watch Depthing tool which is used to work out the correct distance from a wheel to a pinion and then to transfer this measurement to the plate for drilling the pivot holes. Plyer shaped Poising Calipers as rodabod has stated for checking the true of a balance wheel The last tool I thought was for removing cannon pinions, but my book tells me its for removing rollers, but I guess it would work for hands and cannon pinions too. Depthing tool and truing pliers pictures are from 'Watch and Clockmakers Handbook Dictionary and Guide by Britten, other is from Watch and Clock Making and Repairing by W J Gazeley, both very useful books for identifiying tools and how to use them.

Its very tempting.

Nice watch if a little on the large side for my taste. I do have another problem with it too. A mysterious screw in the middle of the back with a label that says "do not unscrew" would be too much for me to resist. It's like having a big red button that says "do not press"... you just have to to see what happens!!

The problem is (most likely) a lose/slipping cannon pinion. If you enter these terms on the search window top right you will find many discussions about that.

O thats cool, so nice to have customer that have that sort of watches....you must have a nice jobb mr ...have a good day at work..

The superman watch needs Kryptonite oil, the Batman one uses Seiko S-4 and the Flash uses Moebius 9415 since it is a "fast" beat one. Oh! and don't forget to add a small amount of silicone grease to the bump on the watch band so it seals against humidity when closed!

All the lubricants from Cousins would cost like 50 pounds, you would have then approx 3 times for proper tool, jury-rigging it's not a good idea in watchmaking. For further saving you could try asking a friendly watchmaker, or resell them after use.

Lol - I hope it was not too painful Nice watch

My Sekonda today, with Poljot 2612.1 alarm movement. This was the first watch I ever serviced. When I received it, was running 28 minutes per day slow, amplitude was 86°, and beat error was 10ms. The acrylic crystal was also really badly scratched up. Now it's running +/-5s/d, amplitude is around 280°, and beat error around 0.5ms, and I've polished the crystal. I also recently overhauled the very stretched folded-link jubilee bracelet. I did a write-up of the service here, http://www.stefanv.com/watches/restoring-a-russian-alarm-watch.html, and the crystal polishing here, http://www.stefanv.com/watches/polishing-an-acrylic-watch-crystal.html.