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Nice post. I love working on Walthams. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I got this one recently in a batch, wasn't very hopeful but found a battery to fit and it fired up, don't know its vintage however as it's a LCD display it's probably from the 60's. Doesn't seem to have any other functions other than telling time As it came! . Now!

It probably missed the watch...or the FORD didn't start! :D FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily

A little oil Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

There is no screw for that. Just apply a little under it to help it to stay in place Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

And finally, the third and last part of this series of videos... Pointing out how I repair the movement replacing the date driving wheel and how I repair the hour wheel, instead of replacing it. Have fun!

Could have done that? But thanks to Bob i manage to remove it. Plick it said :) Just wanted to clean everything and make sure nothing is damaged.

Personally I think smart watches are dumb...well, they aren't watches and they aren't computers so...maybe they are retarded electronics compensating to "look" smart!? :startle:

Been a tad busy this weekend so apologies for the delay in posting, but here are a few pictures of the strip etc. First one is a general picture of the start And abit further in to the strip down, starting to find lots of crud in the movement now And a strange blue in colour dried up substance that I can only assume is old oil You can see it pretty clearly where the pallet fork sits And now after a good clean I just test fit everything for the first of many many times in this project Here's the original hairspring, I soaked it in hairspring cleaner but the rust stayed, also after purchasing a couple more spare movements I also realised the balance staff was 0.1mm too short so I had to change that aswell as replacing the hairspring Here's the replacement hairspring re pinned and also the roller table and roller jewel fitted, I have to say roller jewels seem to disappear very well from these movements, out of 4 movements only one had a whole roller jewel present. After lightly pressing the roller table onto the staff and fitting the hairspring to the cock I manipulated the table so that when the hairspring came to rest the roller jewel was as near as dammit smack in the middle of the banking pins, I then staked it in place. So after much wheel swapping and a plate swap and also swapping the jewels on the balance cock for a decent set I finally got it together and running after I demagnetised the whole movement fully cased up (twice both sides) This picture is a genuine shot of the time after 24 hrs of running after being set to the time on my tablet when I fully wound and set it going, as you can see it's just on a minute slow on its first full run in god knows how many years, not bad for a non jewelled (apart from the balance) movement. I have to say I'm more than happy with the result, it's still going strong after 2 days in my jeans pocket being bounced around.