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Today it's a mid to late '50's Technos, fresh from the bench..... Please pardon the confusing shadows on the dial, we had a rare moment of sunshine which had to be taken advantage of. Picked up for a song, minus crown and stem and in a typically scruffy state. After a full service including new main spring, crystal, case back gasket, and of course the missing parts replaced, it's running like a champ.

I have this vintage Elgin pocket watch that I repaired and from it’s serial number 805552, it was made in 1880. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side. At the gunfight the boys were wearing pocket watches as shown below. So, would anyone know what pocket watches were worn by the good guys.? This is the Elgin I have from 1880, and now runs really strong and accurate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Just to clarify; What I meant was that "the fourth wheel keeps ticking freely when I set the time" counterclockwise. To those of you new to watches; When the cannon pinion is too tight it will not release properly from the centre wheel arbor when setting the time, dragging the train of wheels along with it, which is no good. When this is the case and the time is set in a counterclockwise direction it will stop the seconds hand (sitting on the fourth wheel, sometimes called the second wheel (a bit confusing yes)) and this could even make the seconds hand spin counterclockwise and this could potentially damage the movement.

Hi Watchie here is fried's electric watch repair manual on pdf . I will try to find the other one but dont hold you breath!!!!!!. ElectricWatchRepairManual.pdf

The strike/silent lever when engaged pushes on the the end of the lifting arm arbour which enables the pin on the minute wheel to engage with it, when the strike/silent lever is disengaged the arbour is pushed forward by a large spring on the back plate of the clock preventing the arm engaging with the minute wheel pin and stopping the clock from striking.

There is a strange paradox with plastic. Yes, it is completely non-biodegradable, but by the same token, it locks up carbon pretty much forever. You don't want to be burning oil, coal or natural gas to make energy, but making plastic is another matter. The issue with plastics is more to do with the fact that we re-cycle far too little of it, and thus our environment is heavily contaminated with it. The same is true of pretty much all of the "ingredients" in our consumer goods. They are typically produced to a price, and engineered to fail. This is of course the madness of infinite growth Laissez-faire Capitalsim. The trouble starts when you try to address this, as the moment you challenge the near religious fervor that surrounds capitalism, people scream nonsense about Communism, and "you must be some kind of communist", as if it is the only alternative. Leave aside the 'isms' and address environmental matters in a more scientific manner and you will find solutions. As to using a mechanical watch or clock. They are actually a brilliant example of good engineering. A well built, well maintained mechanical timepiece will keep going pretty much forever, and use zero additional carbon over its lifetime. Compare this with an "Apple Watch *" These products are designed with a fixed lifespan. Generally they are not maintainable in any meaningful sense, and their use of energy (and thus carbon) is many orders of magnitude higher than a comparable mechanical watch. Should we therefore be encouraging everyone to wear a mechanical watch? Of course, after all I have cornered the market in sub £4.04 mechanical timepieces, and my Capitalist senses see a boom in the market if we do. I'll be rich I tell you $$$ RICH $$$ (*other hideously over hyped and over priced brands are available)

That is the silent/strike lever. It only strikes on the hour. The minute wheel only has a single pin.

To put that in perspective, that $65 watch in the mid 1960s would have cost the equivalent of around $600 in today's money, so this was a relatively expensive little watch by the standards of the day. For comparison, a mechanical V-Conic Timex of the period typically cost around $10.

I see your Junghans and raise you my 1968 Junghans 600, electronic watch marketed in the US as 'Sheffield' 1968 advert, suggesting that it's what the trendy airline pilot of the day should be wearing....

Seiko service in New Jersey was able to sort it out under warranty. I don't know whether I got the same movement back or not.

Spite?

That's happening between 11 am and 2 pm, so it's not in a static position but when in your wrist, isn't it? I had a similar problem a month ago and the reason was a faulty cannon pinion, letting the hands to move if I moved the watch a bit heavily than usual. Maybe you did something rough in that time interval both days? If this could be your problem then you'll feel too few or none resistance in the crown when setting the hands.

Considering it occurs in same time span and in static position, I looks for the fault in the minute train including canon pinion, hands, hands tubes rubbing. Elimination would,nt do much good here, since you would eliminate the min hand which is what you need to observe the reocurance with..Unless you set the hand 12 hr ahead, then the fault is to be ran through in day time, when you have a your eyes open and better chance to catch the guy red handed, if you did, your tg can help confirm. I make an observation with the dial removed, hands installed too.

Back in "sunny" Perthshire after our India trip. Back to floods, snow and high winds (and an exciting flight in to Edinburgh last night in a Dash 8 Q400 in "marginal" conditions), so I swapped my favorite little workhorse 19 jewel Sekonda TV face, (which performed flawlessly I might add), for something a little more sunny. A bright champagne dial "Crown Watch" with gold hands. Now I'm about to take advantage of a lull in the weather to take a quick look round the garden and see what is still there, and what has been washed away or blown down.

This "well used" junghans came in lot .it came to me with a broken stem ,no crown or tube.It was repaired with a stem extender and a new tube and crown were fitted.It runs surprisingly well.

Since you,'ve removed the balance wheel, I would try removing the pallet fork and see if the gear train runs smoothly eliminating the possibility of sticky gear train.

I can wholeheartedly recommend the Vostok 2409/2414 movements and the Poljot 2614.2H movement to any beginning watch repairer. Oh yes, a shim is sometimes used, but it works and I consider that a lot more serious than making a "bump" in the main plate as the Chinese do.

"Finger agitation" now there's a technical term I must remember! :)