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Cleaning screws and blueing. I cleaned clock screws up using a lathe, but you can also use a screw head polisher. Take the rough edges or burr off by using your needle files or small bench file. Then use various emery sticks finishing with the finest to produce a very fine finish. You then need to burnish the complete screw head. You then need to clean the screws; I used an old watch cleaning machine with old cleaner and rinse. I used to blue the screws using an old copper penny in a hand vice which was over a spirt lamp (you don’t want a long wick) the hand held was then held in a bench vice. The trick is to blue all the screws to the same colour blue. If you fail, then clean the blue off and start again. As soon as the screw has turned to the required blue quench the screw in oil, this makes the screw shine. Clean the screws again in the cleaning machine, dry and cool. If you are successful, all the screws will be an even colour blue. It takes a little practise. There are a few ways of bluing screws. My master taught this way me.

Recent EBay purchase of 1970 Timex Electric diver turned out to require more work than I thought. In this case the stem retention clip was cracked in two and I noticed the fixed magnet had come on done. What I did not count on was the magnet being lose damaged coil on the balance. So I went to a parts donor and with little effort 2 became 1 again. here we have the original seller pic and followed by the repaired watch along side it's new friends.

Hi guys, Thought I'd share some pics of my Oris Big crown with pointer-date (circa 2009?). Simple classic design and quite in the spirit of the older Oris watches. The case back gives a good view of the ETA2836 inside. The red rotor was a Oris touch. The edge of the caseback has a coin-edged design, similar to the front of the watch. This improves the look of the caseback as the metal edge would look too big otherwise. Increasing the display window wouldn't work I think as that would only show the movement holding ring. The line is still pretty decent.. And the bracelet is nice and supple. But the design of the clasp is a bit plain. Oris deserves credit as it was one of the brands which was instrumental in bringing back the Swiss watch industry back from brink of the abyss. In the late. 80s and early nineties, their classically designed watches using ETA movements sold well by focussing on the mechanical movements and using it as their USP. Their tag-line at the time was 'high-much', as seen on the rotor in the movement pic above. This watch came my way as a part exchange for an Omega Constellation. The previous owner had gotten the Swiss watch bug but as he got deeper into the hobby he started to appreciate other brands. To be specific, he was getting into the 'manufacturer' brands as opposed to 'ebauche' brands. It's a shame as this watch is quite good as it is. Ah well, the previous owner should be into Pateks by now!. Anilv

How are you cleaning them initially? If it takes off with solvent on the jewels then you have a lubrication issue, either gumming up or not existent. If the jewels aren't properly clean before oiling you will have problems. Worn pivot holes will generally be slightly oval, and in the direction of wear there is actually more contact with the pivot, increasing friction. In a watch like this you can probably get by with closing the hole slightly with a staking set and then broaching back to size. Pivots are best refinished with a Jacot tool.

Provided proper lubrication and assembly, I believe you need to specifically demagnetize the autowinding upper bridge including the two complete reversing wheels again, if you haven't already. The small polished ratcheting levers inside the reversing mechanisms cause the shutter feel while winding when magnetized.

Wow all those staking tools...Can you multi task?

@matabog; Perhaps it is not per-sé the case that people are offended. Some might be, but not necessarily all. Perhaps it's me, since I'm lately started following the forum at bit more, but I started to notice that "new members", without taking the effort of introducing themselves, pop-up in Watch Repair Advice or another chapters, ask one or a few question(s), getting all sorts of advice from helpful (steady) members and thereafter don't even bother to report back, never mind writing a "Thank you very much". I also noticed that if&when @oldhippy asks them politely to introduce themselves before posting a question, some never do and just disappear. Perhaps a "compulsory" introduction works a bit like a threshold, shifting the more serious people who really want to become a (long term) member from the "by-passers"? Personally I would never knock on somebodies door, they open up and I start to ask questions. For me there is noting wrong by giving a brief introduction of yourself; at least all forum members get an idea whom they dealing with, what kind of experience the new member has etc. I gain from the forum and try to give something back. But if forum-members are happy with energy flowing "one-direction" to by-pass "members" ...... in the end of the day, it's up to each individual forum member to decide whether to help the "stranger" or not, and how often doing so before running out of steam because there is no coal in return?