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  1. Hi guys, I just want to share with you my small watch collection (brag about it ). First photo, from left to right : Seiko Chronograph, Regency, Raketa 24h, Orex, Kirovskie, Rotary Automatic, Poljot with alarm (Dad's watch, the one that started this passion) Wostok, Atlantic Worldmaster, Pallas Adora, 2x Orex (ladies) and Sparewa ladies. Second photo, from left to right: Ural, Poljot, Seiko 5, Raketa Automatic, Sekonda Automatic, Molnija Pocket watch, Sekonda, Pobeda, Zim Third photo, from left to right: Prim Czechoslovakia, Poljot, Raketa and Raketa again . Hopefully the photos are shown in order of explanation. Hope you like it and sorry for not mentioning movement numbers but will be more than happy to give you details if you want. Thanks, Andrei
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  2. I've been "playing" watchmaker for the past year or so and I absolutely love it. I'm at a stage where I basically spend all of my free time tinkering with watches. I find it extremely rewarding and it has a therapeutic effect on my soul So far I've only serviced Russian watches (Vostok calibres 2409, 2414, and 2415) as they are so inexpensive and fun to work with and I usually hang on the F10 Russian Watches forum on WUS when I'm online (member VWatchie), but I believe watchrepairtalk will be more suitable for me now as it is the movements that are my main focus. Once in a while, though, I like to make a "mod watch" and my latest "creation" I actually finished yesterday and it can be seen here. For a living, I work as an IT teacher at Academy, teaching .NET, C#, SQL, and JavaScript. I have a lovely wife (who actually helps me find watch parts when I've shot them across the room. She has the eyes of a hawk, bless her!) and a daughter (12 years old) and a son (8 years old). Eventually, I'd like to get some decent equipment for making videos about watchmaking and publish it on my (just started) YouTube channel. In my next life, I will become a real watchmaker but for now, I really look forward to be talking to you all! Thank you for reading!
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  3. Thank you very much for your very useful reply! I'll be back about it a bit later (trying to get the kids in bed right now ;))
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  4. You are correct that crystal lift tools CAN be used for acrylic crystals without a tension ring and a press for the others however people usually use a crystal lift tool mostly for watches that are front loaders (they have no case back and you HAVE to remove the crystal first so that you can reach the other components; sometimes you can remove the crown as well if it's a 2 piece, sometimes you have to remove the hands and then the dial and then you can start disassembling it). Unfortunately the photos aren't helping me in some ways but I do have some suggestions. Normally you could just use a crystal press however you have not removed the chapter ring (which I can't tell how is to be removed) and this means that you would have to use a very small dye and this can cause the crystal to crack and break since you would be pushing it out from the center where it's more prone to crack and not from the sides. You probably understand what I'm trying to say. Then again, it depends on how tight the crystal is in there. Perhaps try just a bit of force and see if it comes out... If the chapter ring doesn't come out from the back then it obviously comes out from the front. Have you checked the side of the case ? Some watches have a metallic bezel that either covers the edges of the crystal or is attached/glued to the crystal and you can just pry it off with a case knife. After that the chapter ring can be removed.
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  5. Hi Watchie, This is a good site and I hope that someone can help you if you have a problem. Regards, Mike.
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  6. A little local knowledge tells us that “Difs” is actually Diss, a town in Norfolk. The “f” has no cross though it and is a commonly seen script form in old English as the first letter “s” in a pair. Then, given that “forth” has no capital letter it is reasonable to assume it has nothing to do with a place name and is actually part of the maker’s name. Hence we try a Google search for “Ben Shuckforth Diss” and we find this article by Brian Loomes... https://www.brianloomes.com/collecting/shuckforth/index.html Ben Shuckforth worked between circa 1710 and 1760 and I wouldn’t doubt the dial hails from that era. I don’t know enough about these old clocks to comment if the movement and case are likely to be original, but take a good look at the way the dial is attached to the movement. Doesn’t seem to match the quality of the rest of the piece. If you want to know more than you find on here then I would send pictures to Brian Loomes and see if he replies
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  7. Always been fascinated by these but could never justify the cost. One day maybe.
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  8. Nice group. Thanks for showing them. Your few dark dials reminds me that one of these days I have to get a black dialed watch. I had my eye on a Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk with a black face, but didn't step up to the plate to buy it. I kind of wish I had. Cheers.
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  9. You could give them a squeeze with a pin vice BUT support the inside with something like a piece of brass wire to avoid an oval shape.
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  10. The left one looks a little damaged . Pressed them to far down? Not you but the tinker that was there before? Or coming from an other watch? As they don't look the same on the back?
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  11. ....you could try some type of hole closing tool. Also a quick non intrusive fix: get a loupe, stretch a thin layer of rodico over the hole with your tweezers. (you will not be able to see the rodico with the naked eye) place over the pivot and seat. This will hold the hand on and work as a temporary fix until more permanent repairs can be made.
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  12. When you're setting the watch do you feel any tension at all? Then are you trying to run the watch in the case or out of the case? The reason for asking this is with American pocket watches when the movement is out of the case it goes into setting. The watche is in setting when it tries to run that can be an issue. So American pocket watches some of them have mechanisms to put the watch back in the winding out of the case otherwise you have to put it back in the case so it's in the winding position not in the setting position. Basically the watch can't drive the entire setting mechanism when it's running. Then technically in your picture you are missing the center wheel as the center wheel in this watch isn't in the center. The center wheel is the wheel next the mainspring barrel. So it be nice to find where the Canon pinion is and very likely doesn't look like a Canon pinion?
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  13. Thank you for your welcome and letting me introduce myself. I am retired and spending my time in Sweden during summertime and moving to Thailand during the winter in order to not having to move a lot of snow, which some months or weeks later just melts away by itself. My hobbies since long have been gold washing and cutting precious stones and also to some extent trying to understand electronics in order to be able to repair and build amplifiers. Now I have the intention to get some know-how about clocks and watches enabling me get som old peaces wake up and get going again.
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  14. the only problem I have had, with pocket watches, is rusty main springs or rusty stem collets. vin
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