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Indeed Mark.. that's why I don't buy a Kinetic. I think it's too much troubles..eve if this model is beautiful..

Well done Geo - it is so important when cleaning by hand to pay special attention to the pivot holes :)

I hope you don' mind if I share a problem that I had with my third venture into watch servicing as it is oil related. The watch was a triple date moonphase powered by a Venus 203 movement belonging to a friend. I stripped it down completely and gave all the parts a good watch in lighter fuel followed by a session in my ultrasonic bath. Everything looked great and I put the watch back together adhering to the not too much oil regime. When full assembled everything was working perfectly and all I had to do was keep it for a week and make minor rate changes. I then gave it back to my friend who was absolutely delighted. I'll cut to the chase, the next day the watch stopped???? At first I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. I stripped the watch completely and on very close inspection (I should have done that the first time), I discovered that there had still been some dried up oil in a few of the jewels. The new oil had soaked in and expanded this resulting in it gripping the pinions. After another five blasts in the ultrasonic all the jewels were properly clean. The watch was reassembled and has now been running for eighteen months and keeping good time. Don't assume that because it looks clean that it is clean!