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Well this video has taken me so long - I am sick of looking at it. Determined to finish it today! :mellow:

Well done and thanks for sharing. It's good to have another active member on board, I'm looking toward to your next contribution. :)

Very nice and good documentation. I liked specially the illustration of the winding system comparison: worn out vs. good. Thank you for sharing! Cheers, Bob

Excellent work and pictures - thanks for posting :)

Nice work, great to see another old banger restored to its former glory. It does again highlight the main weak spot in Seiko autos - the winding system. Simple & effective design, unfortunately cut short by poor or non existent servicing. If its not the ratchet and/or the pawl it will be the oscillating weight bearing.

Marc, I think you nailed it. Jules Borel shows that the stem for a Durowe 451/2 is a bestfit 200/362F. I checked the bestfit book and the 200/362F only references Frey -D-F. I am ordering it right now. It is only $3.95. Not much to lose. Thank you for the help. Hope you all had a good Sunday back in the old world. It is only 6:55am as I write this. Talk soon. http://cgi.julesborel.com/cgi-bin/matcgi2?ref=V\ZDZJU[

Don't worry, this is the last part. As I was wrapping up the movement service, I noticed that the automatic winding will not work. I found out that the pawl lever and the second reduction wheel are worn out. Compare the worn out parts in the left and the replacement parts in the right. After replacing the said parts, I went on to work on replacing the crystal, cleaning the case and bracelets and re-luming the hands. Yeah, I could have done better on the hands. The lume was too thick. I then installed the hands, placed the movement inside and demagnetized the watch. And here's the before and after shot. All done for a friend for free. :D I hope you enjoyed it. Please let me know any suggestion on how I can improve on my hobby.

You can just PM those to me personally. I have no issue with that :D Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Now that we have that all sorted, welcome to the forum 926wolf. :)

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Hey Joelcarvajal welcome to the forum!! Bienvenido! That is a nice looking Enicar you opened up. Great post and example of the superglue method! Regards, JC

Yoose the force - Looke er Mark - yoose the force. Or about a week in the ultrasonic with the heat set high?

Easiest fix would be to buy a spare movement on Ebay . And lift the part that is broken over to the old movement . That way you can also learn how it works.

... continued. Lever pins replaced. I will not post details here about the replacing process itself because children might read these posts, however, clockboy was right suggesting that it is not simple. It is done now. The setting clutch was, as I guessed: a friction clutch on the bottom of the barrel. I did not need to disassemble this joint just used stake to push it/loosen it. It works but I am not sure how long it will hold the right tension, it is brass tube/on brass. Assembled at first the escapement was: 1. Lever to close to the escapement wheel - there is fine adjustment which moves the lever in and out. 2. Balance was jamming on one side of the swing. It turned out that the safety pin (which is on the balance) was not aligned with the roller. That was difficult to find but easy to fix. All assembled and the watch is working (balance had 90 degrees swing at one winder turn) full wind gives it little over 180 degrees (maybe 200) which is not so good is it? I cannot find data about a pin lever escapement in this or similar Roscopf. The watch seems very happy - what is interesting is the unusual ticking sound, completely different from the Swiss escapement. Set 9pm it for adjustment so will see tomorrow. After one hour (no second hand) seems good. :-)

If it is out by several milliseconds you may be able to hear it, but if it is only out by a hairs width then you might not hear it but a timing machine will.