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Dear svorkoetter, These days with my failing eyes and ears I have given up working on watches and confine myself to pocket watches and clocks. I find that I can deal with the larger components easier than watches now. One thing that has always been very time consuming is the regulation and having come across your site a few weeks ago I sat down and constructed your pre amplifier and microphone. I used RCA jacks instead of the 3.5mm audio jacks as good quality RCA cables are plentiful in my house. I get a very clean signal and all I can say is Wow. The accuracy with which I can regulate a railway grade pocket watch is just phenominal. A Railway pocket is supposed to be good for 5 seconds a day and I have now been able to set one at under 2 seconds per day using your program. I do not post on forums and I have specifically joined this one in order to thank you sincerely for an amazing job that you have done. Not just producing the program but for making it available to anyone who wishes to use it. My tool of choice prior to the advent of Watchoscope was a stethoscope. I would count the ticks over a 15 second period, multiply by 2 and by 4 and then by 60 to get BPH I would then compare that with what the BPH should be, get it as close as I could by ear and then do the fine adjustments over the following 2 or 3 days. Now I can regulate a clock to perfection in under a half hour. Truly amazing so thank you again. I particularly find the Raw field incredibly useful, by observing the variation in the timekeeping ability of the watch, I have been able to diagnose several different problems with multiple watches so I know before I even strip them precisely what to look for. Again, truly amazing. Because I have grown up using BPH as a yarstick for regulation, If I hace a wish list for your program ,it would be to have a field showing real time BPH on the scope page. If you ever make this addition, please post it on this sie so that I can download the upgrade to the program. I see from your profile picture that you are into flying, light aircraft, Even at my old age, I still fly my Titan Tornado at least 4 times a month, It keeps me young. Thanks again. Best regards Parrick

Had a dog eat some crayons... the result was spectacular..! Anil

So, today I went to our local flea market to pick up a couple of watches to practice on. I got these two for quite a good price. I assumed the Omega was a fake, and the Omnikron didn't run. Here's the Seamaster - I figured someone had done a plump job soldering new feet to the Omega dial and I would find some junk inside, perfect, I thought. There was also some very nice engraving on the back - But when I opened it, it turned out to be a beautiful 601 - So I don't think I'll be practicing on this one. I'll have a pro do the movement, and I have to decide what to do about the dial and the case. Anyway, there was the Omnikron, a brand I haven't heard of. It didn't seem to run. I figured since it was already broke, it would be perfect to practice on. As it turns out, it does run, and here's the movement, bad luck again: and this looks too nice for me to mess with, so this one is going to my watchmaker this week. Which doesn't leave me in any better spot. I still need to find some junk movements to practice on. But at least I have two (potentially) nice watches. steven

i won this thing yesterday on fleabay. i'll post a link to it below as it's an interesting read. it seems this particular watch was acquired from a chicago store (who acquired it back in the seventies) and was never sold. so, it is NOS. i'm a bit anxious to get it. i clicked on one of the links and it went to a website called http://electric-watches.co.uk/. i clicked on it and found that this fellow has a load of these watches. but in all of the pics, none of his watches has a red arrow on the dial. gee, maybe mine will be a one in a million. it's quite interesting in that these watches are basically more of a hybrid mechanical/electric. linky -> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Newport-R-GSell-Co-Kal-26-German-Ruhla-as-Chronoflex-Champion-or-Services-Name-/371497701774?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=FjZngieG4wFMPIkNo25NvyIrPA4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc hopefully that link will work. i'll post some pictures and give a review once it arrives.

I looked... I shouldn't have. If I have glitter filled dreams tonight, I'm blaming you clockboy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The action of a Swiss lever escapement. https://youtu.be/Wmk2mA6dg3o

Hello Andy and a belated welcome from Newcastle, Bonfire Night in Manchester - Oh S*** - much respect for you and your mates in the Fire Service. Have not had much experience of the Rado watches myself tending to go for older mechanical vintage ones usually in a poor condition, I also have a fondness for the Accutrons. The Rado's certainly command a price especially the Automatics and I note they highlight scratch resistance and ceramics in the Ads. Anyway, I agree that the the process of repairing is theraputic but it is a mystery to me sometimes why that is the case. I have spent ages trying to get a part in the right place only to see it fly away as I didnt hold it down with my pegwood and then you start again (if you can find it), you would think that the frustration alone would rattle you but somehow it doesn't, generally you just get back in the saddle. Perhaps it is the control and concentration that blocks everything else out (except the wife hoovering) and settles the mind or the sheer relief when it all goes together and hopefully works perfectly - don't know really but it works for me and I think there are others that have mentioned it on the forum as well. All the Best, Vic

Hello Rogart, Some time ago I bought the Bergeon Quartz oil but in fact have hardly ever used it. Hope the wheel is flat enough.Good luck with the rebuild. Cheers, Vic

Anil, that cracked me up! :D I've got this vision of your dog dragging it's bum along the ground and producing the most amazing pavement drawings!

Sorry Mickey. As George says, I will be back in the fold soon. I hope you are keeping well :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

One of the nice characteristics of a timing machine is to see things that cannot be seen any other way. Then for diagnosing problems anything common to both pallet stones shows up with both lines. Anything that's unique to only one pallet stone shows up is only one line being affected. I've attached some images out of a timing machine manual. The most common place I've seen this is the exact same location that clockboy Is pointing out Improper lubrication on the pallet fork. In other words you just lubricated the escapement you put on the timing machine one lines a little rough you need to put a little more lubrication on problem goes away. The problem is you shouldn't see this on a watch that was serviced such a short while ago? Then if it wasn't a lubrication issue there's something wrong with one of the pallet stones. Old lubrication the was never cleaned off chipped stone something wrong with one of them.

The disk thing could possibly be used to allow you to reverse the direction of springs for fitting in barrels. IE wind the spring in a winder, insert into suitable hole in the disk with the brass blank in place. Now twist the brass cover out of the way and press the spring into the barrel from the disk by pressing on the rubber.

The watch is out of beat but as CB says there is also another issue. It could be the hairspring coils are dirty or sticking due to magnetism as the lower line is inconstant. This means something is happening during one vibration causing this. Check hairspring, ruby pin (is it clean), pallet horns (I have seen these where unevenly), pallet stones, pivot holes for balance, pallets and escape wheel. Make sure pallet stones and roller ruby pin is not loose. Most likely culprit is dirt, magnetism or incorrect lubrication.

That is not the vid I was thinking of. However if you look at the reading Mark was getting with that vid it has an out of beat watch BUT the reading on the timegarpher is different to the one Scottster is getting. In my opinion there is a fault with the escapement/pallet jewel on his Rolex. If it was me I would strip & clean & re-lube the escape parts of the movement. I did have similar fault a while ago with a ETA movement. I had forgot to lube the pallet jewels & then lower balance jewel when re-cleaned & lubed correctly the fault went.