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I've just completed my latest project, a homage to the Rolex Explorer and Tudor Ranger. The starting point was a 36mm Alpha-branded Explorer homage, equipped with an ST-16 movement (clone of the Miyota 8215, but with hacking and hand winding). This uses the same photo-paper technique as one of my earlier projects, but with a glossy finish this time instead of matte. The dial is similar to a painted 1016 Explorer dial, but with numerals shaped more like those of the modern 14270+ Explorers. It was inspired by the Blaken Submariner. The hands are vintage Tudor Ranger style, although the second hand is Explorer style. I cut the luminous indices from Jessup #7550 luminous tape. It's not perfect, but it's the best so far, and I'm quite happy with it.

See this vid on cutting wheel pinions. High end machine skills required and the hardening & polishing technic with tin I found very interesting.

I think Geo is referring to the pallet pivot not the escapement wheel pivot which may be broken, it shouldn't move a lot , maybe the bottom one is broken, so you can't see from the top, might be worth letting down the mainspring and removing the pallet fork to check

I definitely understand that feeling of destroying the hairspring. I recommend removing the balance complete and rotating the collet to get it in beat. Takes a while sometimes but safer. I don't recommend rotating the roller because the balance was statically poised with the roller in that position. Rotating it will change timing results. I find filing brass and then rolling it between two anvils makes pins pretty easy. Also I prefer to put a flat on one side of the pin to help hold the hairspring tighter in the stud. And I have a pair of modified tweezers where one end is longer than the other this helps installing and removing. Through watchmaking I restore connections in people's lives!

I had the balance staff on a tack went in with my smallest screwdriver & twisted the collet. As I retrieved my screwdriver I caught one of the coils & bent it. It,s a very small spring & it took an age to get it back to the correct shape. I HATE HAIRSPRINGS :crazysmile: