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The movement has a self-winding gear with direction switching, which works by a pinion floating between two huge jewels. This from the Ranfft database...

I do it mainly in the evenings - quite relaxing really! Better than watching TV although I did enjoy the Walking Dead season premier yesterday :)

Will, If you're having one then I'm having one.

Notice there is no footage or shots of it on anyones wrist. Would look ridiculous.

Hello Al, It may not be really necessary for you but I recently purchased a long arm stereo microscope and it brought a new dimension into the hobby for me and many things just got easier. If you search through the forums all the posts are there to answer some if not all the questions. In general I was surprised at the field of Vision and workspace even at higher magnitudes. Just something you might consider it definitely takes the strain off working on the small stuff, I can even see the teeth on an Accutron index wheel ! Cheers, Vic

Thanks for the compliment Geo. I get call a whole load of different things during the average working day but rarely is "eloquent" one of them :D Fair comment Charlie, there is always going to be that one screw that is a "special" case, either due as you say to corrosion, or because someone who shouldn't have been fiddling has installed it with Loctite and tightened it with an impact wrench set to max. :pulling-hair-out: Often as not in those circumstances I will declare it FUBAR and a more aggressive approach to removal is adopted on the grounds that the offending screw will be replaced, in which case anything goes so long as the the only thing that suffers is the screw.