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Here's a quick walkthrough of an Omega cal 562 I've just finished. Prior to the photos, I've stripped the movement down and cleaned it, experimentally, in Zippo fluid in an ultrasonic bath, which seems to be extremely effective and quick. I don't have a watch cleaning machine. Comments and criticism most welcome. First, I lubricate the barrel wall with braking grease 8213, and I add a dab of 8200 on the spring itself (not sure if I need to or not) Fit the barrel bridge and centre wheel. Lubricated with HP1300 Adding the train wheels - these are fiddly (i think because the jewels are all olives) Fit the train bridge. Lubricated with 9020 Fit the centre-seconds spring. I lubricated the seconds arbor with a tiny dab of 9020. I left the spring dry (vaguely remember reading that somewhere) Separate the ratchet from the manual winding wheel to lubricate it (HP1300) ...and reassemble Winding gear all back in place. Rodico will clean this up... Pallet fork in place. Strictly no lube! Tiny dots of 9415 on the pallet jewel faces, and worked the escapement round until there was reasonable coverage. Fitting the keyless work. 1300 on the wheel arbors, 9501 grease on the yoke and castle pinion Disassemble the lower incabloc setting. Lubricated with 9100. Train all together And running quite nicely Time to fit the motion work and the date-setting stuff. Completely forgot to take any photos! Now the fun begins. Assembling and disassembling the reversing gear isn't trivial. I made a tool that sits in my staking tool to screw it all back together. Here are the components of the reversing gear ready for reassembly I sit the winding pinion on my homemade tool: Then add the superior winding wheel (tiny dot of 9020 in the hole) Fit the superior satellite pinion to the winding wheel core. A dot of 9020 keeps it in place... ..when you sit it in the winding wheel Then add the inferior satellite pinion (their name for it, not mine) And place the inferior winding wheel over the top Then screw the inferior nut onto the winding pinion using another home-made tool: ...and we're done. Putting it all together on the automatic bridge Lubricated with 9020 And fit the whole lot to the watch. The instructions tell me to dip the rotor gib in a piece of elder pith moistened with oil (9020 again) Finally, fit in to the case. This takes several attempts since every time I attached the case clamps, a new hair or dust spec would magically appear behind the glass. Job done. Hope that was informative.

Thanks, Andy. The cat idea is valid, I think.

Zapping at the "bay", and look what I found (item nº 201290000699). Sorry I did not copy and past here the photo as I don't know if I am alowed to do this, due the copyrights. Did anybody already see a watch like this? Very different. Obs.: Bergeon have a compass to check by proximity if some part of the movement is magnetized. My question is, if there is some part magnetized in that watch, how can the owner find Meca direction?

Hi, A bit late with this reply... I made a couple of little tools for broken stems using stem extenders and a couple of old watch crowns but there has to be a bit of the thread left in order to be effective... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Superb! I'm using my mother-in-law for the same purpose (big magnet tied to a leg)...let the witch be useful for once! :D

Great that you found it , I have a good magnet for such occasions , but I'm loving the cat idea :D

I was talking about an audio compressor - it's a little hobby of mine to mess about with music. That's a great idea regarding the scuba tank. I currently use a bandit compressor for removing dust prior to watch assembly in the case but it is hellish noisy when it kicks in. However, it does double up as a tyre inflator and a nail gun :D

While searching last night, I came across this lamp. Maybe not the ideal light for watch repair, but very cool - and less than $1,000. https://vimeo.com/51151746