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You'll address me by my full title, sir, "404 Club's Grand Presidenté Extraordinaire for Life Until He Gets Bored or Something of Colorado", or I'll have your head! Also, "hey you", "that guy", "some asshole", or simply "DUDE!" (correct pronunciation is stated in the 404 Club Members' Handbook of Rules, Laws, Mores, and Strong Suggestions as "with excitement"). Your shirt design is fine, but the aforementioned handbook requires the appropriate formal head dress go with: As well as the accompanying butt covering: I don't make the rules. Just enforce them rigidly.

Caliber No is traditionally stamped on the movement, usually under balance. You need a staking set and plenty of practice restaffing a balance. See vids by Mark lovic on youtube. If available a balance complete is your best bet for now. Regs

17mm open end straps are uncommon but they are out there. I have bought a few straps from this site https://www.watch-band-center.com/watchstrap-p28094h175s760-Watch-strap-Rockhamp.html I’m sure I’ve seen 17mm NATO straps somewhere too, but can’t find them right now. 17mm one piece leather straps are available here… https://www.steveostraps.com/straps-2/nato-straps

OH, I think that few non-English words in an enjoyable, not-highly-technical topic like this are just fine.

You haven’t included a picture of the balance, but that looks like it has a cylinder escapement. In which case you may be able to push out the old plug (tampon) which has the pivot on it and push in a new one. Easier said than done and whilst you don’t need a full staking set you will need to obtain or make some special punches, and a suitable tampon. John has posted about these before here

In other words your new to watch repair and you want to learn how to repair a watch? Then there is no one book and unless it's an older book typically not available online as PDFs. There are things like an online course to get you started like this one https://www.watchfix.com/ But if you're looking for a book here is a book This scroll down the page and download the book in a variety of formats. https://archive.org/details/TM9-1575 YouTube is an interesting source of material Here's an interesting video to get you started with the basics Not

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One of the ways to identify watches that are unknown is the look in the material catalogs. They have a system sometimes called the fingerprint system. The visit we need the diameter the movement measured on the main plate on the dial side. Yes I know you have a pocket watch but it really helps to narrow down the exact size. Then we need a picture of the setting components found on the dial side. The unfortunate problem with the system is the earliest book I have is 1951 I don't know how far back they go but they don't go back to American pocket watches for instance. Then there's some other books in the 60s and early 70s so it has to be within a relatively narrow window of time. Yours looks modern-ish another was it doesn't look super vintage maybe we might find it even if we don't find it another way to do some of this would be to take your staff out we measure that and we look at a list of staffs by sizing yes they ask he have something like that and see if you find something close. So in addition to your staking sat you also need a watchmaker's lathe. This is why typically beginners do not do staff work the outlay of expensive tools and knowledge of using them isn't usually what beginners do.

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Hi Frank and welcome to the forum The wearing of a loupe or eyeglass is not obliatory, I you wear spectacles there are clip on single, double and triple lenses each giving a different focal length or used with each other to make up varying focal lengths, there are also binocular head bands and or microscopes for detailed work. for general work I use the headband or clip ons close work a single loupe in the left eye. Take a quick look at cousins uk watch material house online catalogue which will give you all the vatious options. Being monocular would pose little handicap if working on pocket watches/clocks etc. What bit of East yorks are you Lived in yorksire fir 60 years brither still lives in Hull

I have found it easier to reduce the height before installing the bushing into the plate. For this reason I try to purchase the correct height bushing. If the purchased bushing does not have a oil sink then I fit a bushing just a little thicker than the plate and reduce it down while creating the oil sink which helps hide the new bushing.

I'm no machinist, but I would shoot for a similar excess diameter as the brass jewel settings have around the jewels. That seems like plenty, and it would keep the visual appearance consistent

Hi Matt Only found the setting lever at Jules Borel (USA) , spring and clutch wheel discontinued. Maybe try speedtinerkollection.co in europe a seller of second user parts also welwynwatchparts.co.uk. the same, cousins UK nothing listed. may find a donor on Ebay if you are lucky.

I might need to get myself a t-shirt with that printed on it. Maybe something low key and understated like this design. What do you think. It might be a few weeks before I get a chance to post any pictures of my recent purchases, as I am "out of station" at the moment.

I would use Moebius 9000 Quartz oil on all the pivots. For the keyless, motion works and calendar works, lubricate as you normally would for a mechanical watch.

I've no idea what this is, but the blued screws and the intricate engraving suggested it was worth the 404 club price. I actually paid just a few pennies more than the 404 club rules usually allow, but the postage was cheaper than it usually is, so I justified the spend based on that. The local 404 club membership committee can argue about this later, but since I have the casting vote, and am the only member of that committee I don't think it will be a problem. I have no idea of the size, and it does have some damage to the dial, but it also has a full compliment of hands, and as I say, the workmanship, what little we can see, looks quite good. If nothing else, it will give me some fusee strip down practice, and maybe make a nice ornament.

No. 1: To drill a hairspring collet for bigger staffs: -collet comes here (red) - center the collet with pointed pin (blue). There must be 2 pins for the 2 clamping plates. And 2 knurled supports imo. - Clamp tightly with nut (green) - drill through hole of clamping plate. Frank

Ok, these ones are bergeon compatible oil holders equipped with bergeon agate stone from Cousins. The one on the right hand side is pallet wood the other two are from trees I cut down in the garden a while ago.