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I had a nice wee change today, a friend asked me to see if I could get his fathers old Elliot clock running. It could probably do with a complete strip and clean, but I'm way too busy to do that just now. It was an easy fix to get it going, both the crutch and the pendulum needed a slight bit of tweeking. Someone has been at it in the past, and was a bit heavy handed. The crutch required very little bending to sort, but the twist and bend in the pendulum required a little more effort. The Westminster chimes wouldn't work because one of the actuating levers that is driven from a cam was completely in the wrong place. It was an easy fix, after I worked out how it should operate. Another issue was someone had bent the click spring on the right hand barrel, thus preventing the chimes barrel from being wound. Again it was an easy fix. When the movement was fitted back in the case, I tweeked the hammers to get a nice clear sound. After a touch of oil in the relevant places, it's now ticking away and chiming as it should!

Got this from a friend and just wondered about the dial as it is not your usual type of thing. I'm guessing , assuming , that the red numerals from 1-10 and the fact it says decimal on the dial are just the decimal fractions of a minute i.e 60 seconds being 1/10 of a minute , but for what reason ? Also note that the minute dial has extended markers at 3,6 & 9 minutes and the minute counter is 45 minutes , could this be a referees watch ? Your thoughts please. Thanks Andy

Thanks for the comment Geo. That's a very nice Enicar too. What's the guitar? Looks like it's a cedar top. I like the Acqua too mk3. It's nicely uncluttered. Today I've gone for a Bulova. As with most of my collection this 1979 diver was an eBay SoR in need of restoration. Scuffed up case, seized bezel with nearly all the paint missing, and a mangled hair spring in the in-house 23 jewel auto wind movement. The cosmetics were easy to sort but the hair spring was completely fubar so a doner was tracked down. The result is one of my favourites.