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A few more recent blue dialled members of the 404 club.

I purchased an Ever-Tite and the tension ring slid out easily. The chapter ring fit perfectly, if not a tiny bit more lose, that's why I had to glue mine in.

Also, just my opinion, but from looking at your video, the freedom of movement which you are getting from the barrel when turning on its arbor is fine.

No sense in taking any risks, I've gone for the full protective gear and some serious social distancing. It not easy servicing a Timex wearing this little lot, but better safe than sorry.

If it's only a light scratch then you may be able to rest the pivot in a groove cut into a piece of hard wood and apply some metal polish like autosol. You would then hold and slowly rotate the wheel in one hand while pressing down on the pivot with a flat piece of pegwood or similar.

Since I've been a member of this forum for a while now, I have noticed that other than the standard dial colors of black, white, grey, gold and silver, blue seems to be the color of choice for many of us here in WRT. I have always been attracted to blue dial watches, especially since it's my favorite color. Here are mine. Please feel free to share yours with us. Blue dial watches are on top, and blue accented watches on the bottom. 1978 Timex Falcon Eye 1979 Timex blue tv dial 70's Sicura Satellite 1973 Timex Mercury 1980's Seiko Quartz diver 1978 Timex Sprite Modern Invicta automatic Pro diver 70's Benrus Citation with blue accents (electronic balance movement) 2010's Fossil "Moden Machine Automatic" blue accents 70's Timex, 21 Jewels with blue accents 1973 Timex Marlin with blue accents.

I must show you this. Im so happy. Won at an local estate auction last summer. It is from the fiftys or the sixtys i believe, but hardly used. The cabinet i made myself, but i need a decent motor. The chinese sewing motor dont deserve this.

Birthday priority... I am currently working through level 3 of the watch repair course. I had planned to start my practical training on level 2; stripping down, oiling and rebuilding a Seagull 6497. However, my daughter Lisa has her birthday coming up on April 10th. And in early March I decided to build a real Swiss watch as a present for her 23rd birthday! Although this is not about watch repair, this activity already proves a nice exercise for me to practice using various tools. The watch is already 95% finished. Now I am waiting for 2 little case clamps before I can proceed and finish. Below I show you what I did up to now! Lisa likes wierd and alternative things like skeletons and other black stuff therefore I have a good idea of what she likes. And I want shopping and got all these parts, including a NOS ETA 6497:

I used a press to fit the hands. Nevertheless it did not prove to guarantee a flush / parallel mount of the hands. I verified this using a 10X loupe and had to manually adjust the minute and seconds hand. I made sure that the hands are parallel to each other and the dial all around the clock. Esp. the seconds hand has a very small clearance to the dial. It got stuck during testing and I had to correct the situation.

Where do I start? In no particular order, here are a 'few'........ There are more........

I found a brand new but old Swiss ETA 6497 in Greece. All other parts came from China. The watch case is stainless steel and is part brushed and part polished. Mineral glass front + back side. The "Skull' skeleton dial is super cool and the markers, numerals and hands are glow-in-the-dark! After fixing the watch dial onto the movement the most difficult part is fixing the watch hands. The most difficult is the very small seconds hand... The little seconds hand flew away 2x from my tweezers, so I had to crawl on my knees and pray to find it back somewhere on the floor. This was quite stressful.

Me having the right tools is a bit like that Morecombe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn: “ I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.” Just substitute tools for notes.

Hi Tom, welcome to the forum. Nice pieces.

Makes you wonder . I would look at that and think every crystal would be a never right. I would go by the case ID.and as mentioned retainer rings pop right out.

Definitely wrong case .wrong crystal as well. Dr Frankenstein would be proud.

Hello and welcome to the forum Tom

Case wrong for a falcon eye and hands wrong, bracelet wrong its a parts bin pick and mix.

The 6 is upside down in the date window.

If you need anymore help just ask.

Thanks for the reply. It's 29.95 inner diameter. I test fit a regular GS PHD and it fit (30.0mm) which fit on its own; however, with it's taper (cylinder walls of crystal are not vertical), the chapter ring would not fit. I own a Cordura Seagull that uses the chapter ring as a tension ring, but it's unclear what type of crystal that is, either.

I wouldn't be surprised if it makes little difference having that score there. It will be a "plain hole" in the jewel, so the walls are flat and parallel, so the ring will simply not touch the jewel. Unless of course the groove is the same width as the contact area with the jewel.

Actually, I have procured all the necessary tools and materials to re-shellac the pallet jewels. Read up and watched many videos on escapements. Probably the only reason for my procrastination is that after many failed attempts, during my moment of despair I prayed to God that he not let me leave this earth till I finished this job.

Hi Two possibles one is the jacot tool which is build for the job of pivot polishing or if you have a lathe doing it in that using a runner in the tailstock. you always have the banker in that Cousins have one should all else fail.

I'm ready to go out now ….

One more part to come... http:// ETA 7750: Part 3 - Reassembly: Escapement Lubrication, Chrono Bridge, Automatic Bridge, Motion Work Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Spanish flu killed 50 Million People in 1918. That fact just floored me. I have been lucky to be able to continue to work as our company, aerospace defense, is considered to be an essential business. That said, we have deployed everyone to their homes to work; except manufacturing. Working from home with FaceTime, Google Duo and RDP or VPN is not really an issue. It’s the idea generation that is caused by random interaction with people. Also, I am a social animal, so not seeing people is hard for me; but I do have a very understanding wife. I have an HDML splitter for my iPhone and can push my FaceTime video to a 72” screen and have virtual coffee with my best friend and family members...kind of cool. I also purchased a desk tripod and a iPhone holder, knowing that we will be at this for months. Cleaned the crap out of my office and now can do work and watch repair in the same space. I also put a non-watch repair video of me playing Europa by Santana on YouTube. So everything is relative. working from home and self-isolating is not as bad as: 1) 55 days in a submarine without surfacing (a friend) 2) fighting in a tank in Afghanistan (son) 3) in the North Pole research facility 4) stranded on Gillians Island (humor) 5) lost at sea (many stories) 6) prison camp (WW1, WW2, Vietnam, etc. 7) sick from C19 ( this should be #1 ) All just my opinion. I did go shopping the other day and wanted to be safe...more humor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

This may be of use to those restoring clocks whilst looking for a pair of Lion head drop handles I came across this site based in Devon who do a range of reproduction clock parts they will even cast parts direct from originals to order, hinges, keys, escutcheons, are hard to get the ones sold by main clock and watch suppliers can be of varying quality and usually do not look of period. They also allow the return of parts that turn out not to be suitable within 28 days https://optimumbrasses.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/clock-parts-supplement.pdf

More of a subdued blue.

A couple of Adrems, a Franken-citizen and a franken HMT, a probably genuine HMT, a Seiko Titanium and a Sindaco. I'll have another trawl through the service and repair folders and see if I can find a few more when I get a spare moment. All of the ones I've shown are working. I may have some donors with blue dials too. There are a couple more blue dialed examples in the pipeline from ebay too, including another Ingersol. I'll post them when they have arrived and I have them working.

Here are a few more. I'm sure I have others. At least one HMT, and a couple more Timexes but this will do for openers.