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well this is my old Elgin full hunter pocket watch i got from my dad on my 14 birthday

to be honest I never really looked at them and having looked at them it's quite a clever design. If you look at the jacks found on the device they look innocent enough? Also photographed the end of the wire lead and the base of the wire probe we can see an initial of who made them and what the plug looks like. So this all looks pretty simple and straightforward kinda like a weird version of banana jack. I suspect all of this was commercially made by somebody else and there is the link to what they look like. https://www.jewelerssupplies.com/product9694.html then for the probes you asked about their quite clever. The steel parts goes into the Jack and somewhere in there are springs to hold it in place. This is what's used to set your height adjustment. Then the arms carefully machines to hold the other part of the arm so it can rotate and still have contact. then the very end of the gold probe the little tip is spring-loaded.

Hi i am Aden Fulton i am a beginner watch maker and i am 15 years old i am in 10th grade and i fix watches for people around my town and i have been into Horology for about two years now and my Great Grandfather was a Watch Maker and i also collect old wrist watches and pocket watches and fob watches and i love to collect Verge Fusee pocket watches too

There have been many references to how many Timex watches should be smashed! I dedicate these as my "fine adjustment" tools.

I don't know about your watch, but FYI that on this forum we have a dedicated section where it's considered polite for new members to introduce themselves first.

Where in Wyoming? We see a lot of you guys down here (Denver)! Edit: That said, beware of personal information. No town in Wyoming is big enough to have more than one Aden Fulton. At 15, you're probably more savvy about that than I am anyway.

For many watches, where full originality is not important, a practical alternative is to fit a nylon gasket, usually available from the same crystal suppliers. I can tell you for sure that the "fumes" from GS cement, in normal use with a closed room wouldn't hurt a squirrel, let alone an human.

Pretty! I have a soft spot for old Elgins too. I have a grade 339 that I carry often, and a grade 94 that I've had for decades. Welcome to the forum, by the way.

Hi Aden every one is capable of mistakes, but no one sells a rolex for 25$ so if you are not sure on anything ask before you buy. There are some well informed members on the forum who would help Iam sure. So write this one off to experience and learn from the mistake. cheers

A nice old watch well worth preserving, look after it.

Hi Aden the fact you re build was from several watches from salvaged parts is in its self an achievement so well done and long may you have success.

Welcome enjoy the forum.

Welcome to WRT forum.

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

That is certainly beyond my skill level, I can't do more than basic things with mechanical movements. Those are cool watches though, best of luck getting it working. And thanks for the welcome!

Hey guys! Be nice. Aden is only 15.

Well I have taken the movement out, the hands and face off, and the hands off. The date wheel is metal and looks fine. The plastic day wheel is split in two and crumpled. I do not notice any apparent damage to the movement. Here are some photos to see... The watch markings indicate it is Taiwanese-made. I understand there is a special plyer-like tool with a circular jaw that is needed to remove the crystal and the ring surrounding it. Attempting to move the crystal by hand just cracks it further. I will be interested in finding out, when I get to reassembly, whether the day and date wheels need to synchronized to the hands in some way. I noted the position of the hands as 3:20 when I removed them. I could not shift them much beyond that as the day wheel was basically sticking out of the day window. Any other advice much appreciated; also, if I should be posting this thread on another part of the site to be 'correct' under the rules please let me know. Thank you, Duane

Mom gave this to Dad on his birthday. He told me that he had added the jewels that I have marked. He did not graduate from Watchmaking School until 1947. My suspicion is that he did the modification during that time. This is a future project for me. There is something wrong with the keyless works but the balance seems fine.

Depends what you mean by tidy up. You certainly can't make the poor work invisible. Poor skill is to blame here. The less said about the crutch the better.

another way to look at this is it's a small price to pay for a lesson in what not to do in the future. other thing is the look at is it's not being sold in a watch category. Anything that even resembles a real Rolex goes from way more money and a seller would be so stupid to sell the real Rolex for $25 in a strange category that alone tells you that it's probably not legit. Plus one look at the back you can tell that's not legit at all. then anything that's of this quality in other words you can't tell that's real or fake that definitely will not go for $25 either. Super fakes are so good that even though a lot of the experts are fooled but at that level you're looking at still thousands of dollars. The only way he can ever get a Rolex off of eBay for $25 of it was lost in the junk box because anything that has the word Rolex honest and is properly advertised and marketed will not go for $25. not always true? in the old days before eBay cut into everything people used to sell other ways. Like local chapters of the nawcc usually would have a Mart at their meeting. Actually they still do in a law the chapters people who'd sell miscellaneous stuff they don't want to sell on eBay. Several years ago somebody was liquidating one of the chapter members collection after they died and they were trying to make money. So I went through the box I did purchase a Rolex for $25 it was labeled as fake. The pack was loose so I could look inside and reason it was deemed to be a fake is it said one jewel and the spelling was funny. But that wasn't the spectacular by for me the Omega flight master and $45 was a better deal. Plus several other watches. The earlier Rolex watches with the automatic the automatics sometimes didn't have jewels or in this case had one jewel for the automatic. The movement had 19 and it really was a real Rolex. But the seller really didn't care he was just liquidating the collection to fellow collectors and eBay wasn't prominent otherwise it would've probably log on the eBay. But that's not the best deal I ever heard of. One of my friends cleans a law office and one of the attorneys the father had died. Send it up with three watches none of which he apparently liked so they put all three in the trash. So she ended up with a free Rolex watch but as early Rolex watches like mine unlike hers there in smaller cases are not as popular today they don't have the black dials they don't have the ring around the outside there's still Rolex is still worth hundreds of dollars and hers wasn't running needed to be repaired. Fortunately she was working in a watch repair shop at the time somebody repaired for free. So yes you really can get super good deals occasionally your lifetime but probably not on eBay and this definitely would not qualify as a deal of a lifetime other than a lesson of what not do with your money.

Here is a very big lathe, wife to scale!

Here's a few pictures of my home made watch cleaning machine. It uses a bathroom vent fan motor, ceiling fan speed control, and a digital timer. I've since added a 12v cooling fan above the motor as running an induction motor at lower speeds (voltage) increases the heat produced by the coil. I turned a 10mm shaft extension to mount the L&R cleaning basket, and the "lid" has a groove that has high temp RTV silicone in it to create the seal. The square post indexes the basket and lid to each jar, and I'm using old school (read: DANGEROUS!) solutions, but they are quite effective. I raise the head after each cycle and spin off the extra solution before going to the next one.

Miyota Calibre 9015 Assembly

Don't worry, this is the last part. As I was wrapping up the movement service, I noticed that the automatic winding will not work. I found out that the pawl lever and the second reduction wheel are worn out. Compare the worn out parts in the left and the replacement parts in the right. After replacing the said parts, I went on to work on replacing the crystal, cleaning the case and bracelets and re-luming the hands. Yeah, I could have done better on the hands. The lume was too thick. I then installed the hands, placed the movement inside and demagnetized the watch. And here's the before and after shot. All done for a friend for free. :D I hope you enjoyed it. Please let me know any suggestion on how I can improve on my hobby.