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The place to go is any zenith forum, Timezone has a dedicated subforum forum, where sellers, entusiast ...are having a ball.

It's time for me to give back.. these are not expensive items but it takes time to picture and ship, give with the sincere hope of helping, Offer is for old and new members worldwide, I reserve the right to not send to opportunists. Unless noted I will send one item per person Small countersunk screws, polished, Ø available 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65. Beginner's polishing compunds assortement. Includes one slice per type. More items to come as time permits.

I found this lot on Saturday for $50. I'm counting 10 watches for $50. 404 club? I'll have lots of questions on this lot.

Specialized forums are great for specific knowledge, estimates, collectors's chit chat, but there is no differece between servicing a Zenith or any other comparable mechanical watch? E.g. watchguy.co.uk, he works on anything. Same for Mark Lovick, same for thewatchspotblog. The same names made in a Zenith forum would be seen in any other. And then the directory by AWCI in case one prefers local business.

Well if it actually is a Tudor movement then it would indeed be superior to Mido. But this one isn't. Tudor would've equipped their 2824s with triovis fine adjust regulators. This one lacks such modification. As far as I'm concerned it's just an off the shelf top grade 2824.

good show ! i was looking thru a bag of wrist watches that was bought a few years ago, they were quite grungry, to my surprise, one is an Omega. i am cleaning it up now. vin

Hey Smokey, Doesn't sound like it. Having a seconds hand hit the mark ALL the way around a watch is tricky. Not impossible (See Grand Seiko), but tricky. Gravity is not your friend, which is why when you rotate the watch you're able to keep it on point. In general, if you hold a watch vertical, because of gravity, the second hand will hit the mark on one side of the watch and miss on the other. I believe generally it will start to miss on the 3 o'clock side but as it comes around and goes back up on the 9 o'clock side it will hit the marks again. Flip the watch upside down (6 o'clock up) and it will do the opposite. Nothing wrong with the watch or the movement...you're just on the wrong planet.

Thanks. Checked Cousins and U.S. version of eBay, along with hours of Google searches. Usually when that turns up nothing it's a good indicator that what I'm looking for may be unobtainium. That said, it does look like Cousins carries some ETA parts, so that's good to have in the memory banks. It is a shame that seems to be the trend in so many industries. The car manufacturers seem to not want anybody but them repairing the vehicles they make either. I'm definitely a fan of "right to repair" but sadly it seems most consumers are not do-it-yourselfers. Hence there just isn't enough public outcry to make the pols do something that is going to make a bunch of wealthy manufacturers angry. I had not found that particular eBay store. Though they don't have the 2836 in Top Grade, they do have several other Top Grade movements, as well as a bunch of other great stuff like dials and such. Thanks for the pointer.

Try here, not sure if 2836 there but maybe alternatives. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/swissmadetime

Not widely available in the UK!

Agree with @clockboy. However, don't expect too much from Cousins as these movements more than likely are "restricted", that is ETA won't supply them as trying to kill off the independent repair trade has been in progress for the past 35 years or so. Anyway, I'd be very interested to follow this so please keep us informed! Thanks!

I have a couple links below for your watch because I always like to see what were dealing with. The rules are watch repair is not universal in that things change with time and this appears to be a Russian watch or perhaps a Soviet Union watch? The reason this becomes interesting is the early Soviet watches and possibly all of them even though that made in a factory there made more like something much older where the parts almost have to be fit. So the ability to just get a balance complete and drop it in without consequences is going to be More challenging perhaps In one of the problems we have with a nonfunctional watch is we don't know what the condition of the watch is before you started doing repairs. So if you repair what you perceive was the issue conceivably there may be other issues. The problem with Russian watches is they tended to have manufacturing variations. Then you appear to have an entirely perhaps different balance wheel. Roller conceivably could be thicker but it's diameter definitely has to match the old one. The pivots have to match for diameter and length of the staff becomes important. Often times something that I was frown on is shimming under the balance bridge is often seen on Russian watches. So you do need to look at very very carefully the new versus the old as that alone could be our problems. In addition to of course whatever else may or may not have existed. It be much much better verify exactly what the problem is before you start swapping parts. If one of those watches that comes in the mail is in beautiful running condition then maybe keep fat. But swapping components from other watches that may or may not have their own problems makes things much more challenging for finding issues. How did you lubricate the escapement? https://17jewels.info/movements/z/zim/zim-2602/ http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&ZIM_2602

Cousins sell movements so I would try there first. The next port of call eBay

Is the watch in beat? Anilv

Sound like a damaged escape tooth, just to make sure the issue is not dirt, I put some naphta on all escape teeth while movement is running, it will gains considerable amplitude which often makes it keep running and somewhat cleans itself. To apply the naphta, I use a small screwdriver as oiler. Good luck.

The case to the left of the Memovox movement is it. With the two dial parts.

looks like your standard timex m905 movement with no spacer ring, if that's the case then you're probably looking at ballpark 35.3mm case like you'll see on the smaller easy readers. Around here they are pretty common in thrift shops (and in ebay lots), not as popular as the 38mm/40mm timexes which do get picked up. Rear snap caseback 33.2mm OD (outer flange), 31.7mm OD of the inner ring, at least on the one I have here. Movement also easily swappable from donor if that one doesn't work, 35mm-40mm (and up?) no date and date analog timexes use the m905.

Deal of the century?

Crowns for the memovox are at hr2 and hr4. High grade movements.

I may have one. When you get it measure the size and I'll look.

Hi Probably best bet is a donor watch from Ebay as getting a replacement from a material house will be a bit slim.

The bond formed by a perished gasket can be incredible. I used the nut + epoxy trick on a Smiths watch and with the case held in a holder inside a bench vice, my entire bench rotated with the watch... it did come off eventually, though from memory it may have required heat.

Yes I did try to contact the nghayekwatchmakingschool before via e-mail but didn't receive a response. I've tried a different avenue they have online and I'll follow it up with a visit or a phone call as you suggested, thanks for the suggestion. The problem is I'm quite critical to the assembly process as my company is just a start up and not a well established watchmaking company. There is just a team of two of us, basically, which assemble, QC check and send the watches. We don't do any services (yet) and only very basic repairs. The amount of tools I have available may not fully cover what is required for some of the courses. But I'm going to try to pitch to them to support me to do this to further the company, which I guess is going to be difficult. The positives are I'm a HK ID card holder but not a permanent resident, but my spouse is and I am staying here indefinitely (eventually i'll become a HK citizen). But with the political situation who knows what will happen, but life goes on. As far as the SAWTA Program goes - 3600,3000 hours... wow that is quite a commitment. $7000 dollars of equipment - it all sounds quite awkward to me, and slightly complicated. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. Actually it appears the course is WOSTEP like the nghayekwatchmakingschool, which is slightly confusing. But comparing the cost of HKD 60,000 (Around £6k) and $7000 worth of Equipment in the SAWTA, it's basically the same I guess. I feel like my company won't be willing to salary me while I take one of the two local courses and right now, as we're selling watches fine and I'm still developing my skills independently. From my own point of view I think it's going to be difficult to give up my salaried job, especially at this time in the world. So the BHI course, which is broken into 3 parts, that I seem to be able to do at my own pace and work around my own schedule (do it on weekends/evenings or persuade the company to find some time allowance each week to put towards it) seems so much more viable right now. This would require a visit to the UK to take an exam but I don't think it'll be a problem (eventually when the virus situation improves).

Please only post pictures in web formats, that is jpg and png. Be aware that fixing watches is not as easy as changing a tire; you would have to learn, study and practice patiently.

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