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I was going through a box of watch parts I got a long time ago and found a lot of little plastic packets with paper backing with a logo of a backwards F followed by an F. I thought they might be Felsa but I looked it up and couldn't find a match to that logo. Does anyone know what it represents? Also, I found a few dozen complete balances. Some gave movement numbers but others had a strange specification that I don't understand. I'll post about those tomorrow in hopes someone can enlighten me. They are in my shop in an outbuilding and nobody goes out after dark on my property. Too many striped kitties.

On second thought, I withdraw my recommendation for using a copper plate for a lap. I went online to see if I could buy one and was horrified at the price. One square foot of 1/8" copper was about two hundred bucks! And I checked several sites. What's up with that? I looked up the scrap price for copper and it's in the 2.75 range. This plate weighed a little over 5 pounds so it shouldn't cost more than 20 bucks.

This is the watch upto now with a cheap Chinese training movement fit to see what it looks like.

Oh i understand, you can probably still find the information you need fairly easily as i suggested, but to be more helpful: The 6l02 has an arrow pointing to a hole in which you will see the stem release leaver with the winder fully clicked in, press on this, gently, with a fine pointed tool and at the same time pull the winder out. Quartz watches like these have the dials and movements attached by simple friction between the dial feet the slots in the movement, you should be able to locate points to -- bit by bit -- lever the movement off by twisting a screw driver.

Differences between Vostok 24XX parts: The Click I’ve seen two types of Vostok 24XX click wheels and they are usually not interchangeable as the click spring needs to be mounted differently on top of the train wheel bridge. Above is a picture of the first type of click, and it seems to me to be the most common type of click. As can be seen in the above picture the “type 1” click spring hole is farther away from the ratchet wheel than the click spring hole for the “type 2” click (shown in the next picture). The above picture shows the other type of click that I’ve seen. As can be seen, the click spring goes in the opposite direction compared to the type 1 click spring. Hence the click spring hole in the bridge has a different location, which is shown next. The above is not a very a very good picture but I hope it fulfils its purpose of showing the location of the click spring hole for the “type 2” click. As can be seen in the above picture, I’ve seen some train wheel bridges having two holes for the click spring depending on whether you have a type 1 or a type 2 click wheel. The location of the type 2 click spring hole in the picture could be somewhat off as the picture has been photoshopped by me to add it. EDIT: Looking at the type 1 click wheel (a bit closer) it could be that it could be mounted with the click spring in any of the two locations. Haven't tried it though.

YEs that could happen. If the watch was running when it fell, which it is safe to say it probably was, then the pallet fork jewel(s) could have become loosened or sustained a chip upon impact. J