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Do not put a spring in it with a crack in the barrel like that. At some point it will fail with spectacular results. If you cant find a replacement barrel it will need to be repaired. The tube part is just soft soldered to the wheel, it will need to be desoldered and a new tube and possibly end cap will need to be made to fit unless you can find a donor barrel of the same diameter and height that can also be desldered and fitted to the wheel. The endcap from the donor barrel tube would need to be bushed to fit the arbor too obviously.

Oils generally thicken, but one thing you can’t tell easily is when they oxidise. They can become acidic which can corrode some bare brass parts. Occasionally you can see signs of this on clock plates where an over-oiling drip turns green.

Great job! I'm sure the disassembly pictures will come in useful to someone. Beautiful watch by the way! Your Grandfather had great taste Sent from my Redmi 4X using Tapatalk

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Well done Jimmy and welcome to this nice forum.

Welcome Jimmy, Enjoy the forum

Welcome to this friendly forum.

Welcome, I spent the last month taking pictures of the pieces in my collection to show off on the forum. I recommend thinking of a solution/ answer in case you were asked to show off your collection. If you managed to survive this, the rest of the forum is all help and making friends. Regards

1967 Timex "Viscount" - Self Wind for today -

I really do not make nor repair watches. I design, manufacture, and repair apparatus for magicians around the world. Many of the tools and machines that I use would be very familiar to you watch and clock folks. Recently I was working on a design that required an intermittent action driven by a very shallow "crown gear". Here are a few pics. To make these gears I punched out brass discs, added the center hole, raised the rim on a die set I machined, and cut the teeth on my Chronos wheel engine. I have tons of additional projects involving watch and clock scale techniques and tooling/machines - if anyone isinterested. Jim

Here is nice before and after restore that came out quite well. Repairs required, movement service, balance replacement, new crystal, new stem crown, replace missing sweep. And of course just after I added the band and wore it a few minutes the sweep fell off. yes that is why you test!

Here is the reply. Sir, it is not a reproduction, and you are barking up the wrong tree. I have been selling clocks for over 40 years, specializing in chinese antique clocks specifically. I own a company in china making reproduction fusee clocks and other famous english and french clocks. I have owned more antique clocks than you will ever think of, and had the largest collection of Chinese antique clocks in the world outside of the Forbidden City in Beijing. It is antique and made in Japan, not china, and a wonderful clock. Not champleve, and not cloisonne, but a beautiful antique clock. I suggest that you do research yourself before you make such inaccurate accusations, a clear case for a libel suit. Keep your thought to yourself until you learn what you are talking about. You are officially blocked from bidding on anything offered for sale from ProClocks from this day forward. A copy of this note has been submitted to ebay. Have a good day, now I highly recommend you start your studies before you put horologist behind your name. Robert Crowder, BA, Edd. DEd Horologist ProClocks, Inc.