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And here another small video, after putting everything back together. The Poljot 3133 Sturmanskie is working, still has some flaws, has not been regulated nor timed, but it's ticking... Enjoy!

Looking quite spiffy with a new crystal . I had never noticed the bend in the red GMT hand before . Keen...

Congratulations for getting the movement working. I wrecked the cylinder movement i came across. Took the balance off and the watch unwound. Never did work properly again. Take the advice and work on more recent movements with availability of spare parts. Also it's your hobby, the failures just make the successes better ! As Oldhippy said what are apprenticeships for and to master, can take a lifetime. I used to get upset, think this is more to do with pride than reality. Now I just laugh the "Screw Ups" off and move onto the next project. Enjoy your hobby and when things do go wrong, spare a thought for the "Professional " if they screw up, it doesn't only have financial consequences but damaged reputation! Sent from my SM-T585 using Tapatalk

One of our biggest problems in watch repair is finding parts. But the things like jewels we have modern replacements unfortunately they don't visually looks like jewels found in the plates of antique pocket watches. Then forroller jewels will conceivably be too short. This means you either have to find a ancient assortment a roller jewels which you'll probably find is missing all the long ones or a generic assortment to go through. One of the questions that came up was length and if we work the problem differently we get an answer for that approximately. So serial number gets us the grade number grade number gets us the number for the roller jewel. Then the second link you can enter in the grade number get all the parts for this watch there's a note that the roller jewels very by diameter and a reference that single rollers are longer which isn't overly helpful. But image out of 1915 Elgin parts book we get an approximate length. https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/elgin/5649505 Grade: 73 Jewels: Roller Jewel 559 http://www.elginwatchparts.com/

Got this from a fellow forum member on an other forum the other day? Think maybe you could have use for it? http://www.nawcc-index.net/CalcMainspringThicknessLength.php

I got one of these for $400 to work on Accutrons . Works good on other things also . I like the dimmable LED light ring .

I have been asked to service a watch and if possible I was asked if I could change the badly damaged crystal. The movement is a cheap pin lever movement but the challenge was the crystal. The crystal had a lens attached to it’s inside & also a chapter ring fitted to its inside. I think there was a similar post last week with one of these. To remove the chapter ring from the old crystal I just pushed the crystal down from its centre using a Robur glass press to open it & chapter ring came away. I could not purchase the correct size replacement crystal with the correct size lens. The old crystal was a high dome 320mm diameter. However despite my best efforts I could not press the chapter ring into a new 320mm diameter crystal so I fitted a 322mm crystal with the chapter seated inside. However when pressed into the watch the chapter ring tightened. The lens was fitted with Seiko two part clear glue. I marked the inside of the glass to aid it’s position. I also fitted the lens to the outside which the customer was happy with. See pics. I will do a separate post re- the pin lever movement assembly etc. OLD CRYTAL + CHAPTER RING Pressing in the new Crystal + chapter ring Crystal marked ready for lens New lens fitted job done

Your knowledge never ceases to amaze me and is really useful for many amateurs & tinkerers like me. Thanks & much appreciated. Del

That's a good one clockboy, Robur glass press is a very good tool, individual magnify windows are really good and a God send. 320 high dome in my time was a popular size, but there no good holding a tension ring in place, they lack the inside ridge to hold the thing. I'm surprised others haven't made comments on this after all many on here are always asking about watch glass fitting and how to over come problems.

Anthony, Does the movement and inner case go in from the rear? I am thinking that the inner case and outer bezel do not need to be dismantled for servicing? In that case it could have been glued ex-factory and a bit of 'Loctite' will help here. Anil

What is the movement?

Excellent, lovely to see it working. Cheers, Vic

one of my all time favs. love that date location.

I needed a stem for a Ronda 8040.N and I had a 5040.D so thought I would give it a shot. Work perfect and you can get one at Esslinger part 401-1588. http://www.esslinger.com/genuine-harley-ronda-replacement-watch-stems/

Today it's my Hamilton Jazzmaster Chrono. It runs a Val 7753 and one of my favorite, day to day watches.