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Lord Elgin Electronic 1962 and my other one for the week, a very very rarely seen White Lord Elgin Clubman

Hello everyone!... This is my first post and I am new to this forum and watch repair. I am taken by all the beautiful watches and collections I see here, very impressive. This is my first project "Elgin Sportsman 17 Jewels" and I don't know the movement (823?) any help or input is appreciated! For $8.00 off ebay and a little lubrication I got this baby running...best feeling ever.

This is what I have on tonight... Seiko 7009-3040 - bought it off eBay from thailandsmiles (?). Supposed to be a military model with the secondary hour markers. Keeps great time and has a pretty decent reserve. The crown is really hard to pull out to adjust... I'm certain it needs some cleaning. The lume is extremely limited and pretty faded, and it's extremely light. I almost forget I'm wearing it. I don't know if the folded metal band is original, but it fits the lugs well and looks decent with the watch.

I've now ordered tow watches from this guy in India and all have worked. Hopefully the one on its way will be the same and I'll harvest the escape wheel from it. Thanks for the link to Cousins--with the cost of the escape wheel and shipping the one from India is less expensive ($17 including shipping) Now I have an entire movement for spare parts. I'm happy with two working movements/watches and one for a spare.

Here a little walkthrough the servicing of my Rolex 5513, calibre 1520. Sorry for the funny english, I'm no native speaker. I'm not a professional watchmaker, this is only amateur-work. I start by opening the case, taking off the automatic device and disassemble it. Now I remove the movement and take off hands and dial. Removing the cannon pinion. Now it's time for the balance and the pallet fork. Continuing disassembling with ratchet and train wheels. Next one is the barrel bridge. I decided to use a new mainspring. Now it's time for the keyless works. On the other side of the movement the spring for stopping the balance. Removing the screws for the movement and the dial. And reassemble the balance for protection reasons. Ok, everything taken apart, ready for cleaning. Best regards Erik

Since I joined this forum I've moved half a dozen times. Each time I have to fit what I have to work on watches and whatever little space that's available. This time I'm in the smallest place yet (460sqft.) but have the perfect little niche in the corner for all of my watch making tools, supplies, books, Etc. All that and a South facing window plus, I can keep an eye on my beloved car that sits right in front of that window

Hi matabog, I usually don't since the manual does state that they "should move freely". If you put oil their movement could be in some very light way hindered, I think.

If they fitted a new battery, they must have known it was not keeping time. At that time there would be no point fitting a new stem. If you left them your details including phone number they should have contacted you, or wait until you called in, they should have given you advice. Then they kept it for two months, If you asked for an estimate only by word of mouth that isn’t a guarantee, if they gave you a receipt stating estimate they have broken there contract to you, there for they are at fault. After being treated like that, I would find a different watchmaker. Do they carry out all repairs on their premises; this is always the first thing to ask.

Kinda late for this post but I just started servicing my own watches and have the same Elgin Sportsman 17 jewel watch. During disassembly I found the mainspring was broken. Now the hunt for a new mainspring. Just testing the waters with old pocket watches and wrist watches to get my nerve up to venture into the automatic's and hopefully into the chrono's. So far I have fixed 5 vintage mechanical winding watches and running very good according to my Timegrapher, Only broke one old pocket watch ( I messed up the hairspring) and lost a click spring that flew into outer space on another watch. I'm finding that the balance cock and hairspring procedures to be the most difficult for me, especially during re-assembly. Still assembling tools for my next task of replacing the balance wheel staff. Mark Lovick makes it look sooooo easy, but I know its gonna be a real challenge. My best results were with a Hydepark that I purchased on the bay that was pretty rough. It was a real challenge servicing on such a small movement. I think its from the 1950's and the case size is only 30mm not including the crown. Pictures are of the finished product. I should have taken some before I started. It was a mess of dirt and some rust and the balance wheel was stuck solid and mainspring was wound to the max. but I was amazed that it now has a power reserve of almost 38 hours. A little polish and a new dress and she sure is pretty :~)

Dial looks a bit stark, probably the lack of minute markers doesn't help. I would experiment and try to have a cross hair to break up the dial. Either use a sharpie, or even scribe the croshairs into the dial back to the metal with a sharp blade. My 2cents. Anilv

Nope. They are metric. That's the neat thing about the Unified Miniature Thread screw series, metric and imperial are the same. But they really are metric screws with the pitch sometimes shown as inch dimensions. If you can find a UK supplier you will be ahead of the game.

Thanks for the welcome guys, okay pics attached. in answer to the last reply can live with the second hand not sweeping, the hour / minute hands are working fine which I am okay about considering we thought the watch was going to be in several pieces / smashed screen etc !! could replace the strap just wondered if there was a way off keeping the original and removing this fixed pin link ?

Finally a slow-motion video of the balance working I took during the work.

Hello, I have this Omega watch with a stained dial. It's not the kind of "patina" I find particularly appealing so I wanted to see if I could clean it up with the usual soapy water but nothing happened... Then, by chance, I bought the exact same Omega dial for a couple of dollars at a flea market, with the same kind of discoloration (I also scored another omega (354 bumper) in the process, I'll clean it up and give it to my dad). So it was time to experiment !!!! Before picture : All 3 methods were applied with a Q-tip (cotton swab), gently rubbing the cleaning solution on the dial, and rinsed VERY WELL using distilled water. First up : more soapy water, with different soap concentrations... no change. Second : lemon juice diluted in water, increasing the lemon juice concentration slowly... no change Last : Windex (ammonia based window cleaner) MIRACLE !!!! It took about 30 minutes of work to get this result, doing one little portions of the dial at a time. I chickened out around the writing on the dial, so it doesn't look as good as other places. I didn't want to push my luck. After picture : Share any method you've used and before/after pictures.