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Little Meow She the blackest small Black Panther. Playful and sweet, manages to get around well with all the other characters I have pictured before. Here in silhouette only.

Please read the Watch cleaning section especially page 8 it's good practice to also peg fork of pallet taking care of guard pin and impulse jewel surface, I have done this combined with burnishing fork with ladies mainspring wired to pegwood,with great results. 20 to 40 degrees difference. This article on cleaning will recharge your approach to cleaning and amplitude. Obviously mechanical issues sorted first. Graziano 626914013_December2012(1).pdf

An update of my collection. Feel free to follow me on Instagram to support me. I post my watches much earlier on my Instagram than on the forums. My Seiko 6139-6002 aka "Pogue": My Seiko Presage Cocktail SRPB41J1 aka "Blue Moon":

Cap jewels can be cleaned in Naptha (lighter fluid) and I use a fine pair of sharpened brass tweezers to grasp them. If your tweezers are poor they will not hold the jewel or worse---it will fly through the Nth portal. A thin plastic sheet is a good idea with springs, but it is hard to work through it with jewels. Just make sure you have a large clean work area and go slowly...

I try to always make sure stems, tubes, repivots etc. are a good mechanical fit. But I will often use a bit of appropriate Loctite as a belt and suspenders. Especially for tubes that should be press fit, but sometimes the hole has a terrible surface finish or the fit is iffy, loctite helps make sure its waterproof and not going to work out. And it can be hard to judge the fit- it might seem like it will be a good fit, but is a little loose, but the stainless on stainless wants to gall when removing...- and the Loctite actually eases the assembly a bit even if it's actually a tight fit!

Pardon me, I get a bit carried away after a few glasses of

I started servicing watches about 9 years ago. To start with I often struggled for amplitude, but now I have the problem much less ofter. I'm now re-servicing some of my original watches and often get better amplitude now (20-30deg) than I got when I started. I'm now using better cleaning methods/fluids and work under a stereo microscope so that I can see any dust specs. Also, I over oiled. If I get low amplitude, my first step is re-clean and oil the balance jewels. Although they may look spotless, many times re-cleaning + oiling has fixed the problem. One thing I always now do (thanks to @nickelsilver) is peg the pallet arbor jewels - cleanliness here is essential !! I recently serviced a watch and lost 40 deg amplitude because one of the jewels wasn't clean enough. Then work along the gear train. As @nickelsilver mentions above, wear in the bridge bearing for the barrel arbor is often a problem I've had. Wish more watches had replaceable bearings or jewels here (e.g. Seiko)

@VWatchie your guides are superb. I used your eta walkthrough as a guide to my brother's 2824 (Sellita 200). Something is f**ked up or worn out on your watch which will soon be pointed out by our more experienced friends on this forum.

Dial side up, hairspring weight pulls toward balance cock, touches there (as others said) and makes it run fast.