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Happy Thanksgiving all you watch loving' Turkeys..... Today I chose to wear a Tag Here Carrera caliber 16 . This model uses the Valjoux / ETA 7750 movement . This just happened to be the first watch I worked on with a 7750 . I opened the back of the watch when I first got it because the rotor would spin when it was hand wound , and I wanted to clean and lubricate the automatic assembly . Well , a part of the chronograph popped out and I had no Idea where it came from . I was sweating bullets , but I soon found out how much info is available for this caliber . Especially ETA's Swiss Lab walk thru tutorial for this and other models . This version has the likeness of race car driver Juan Manual Fangio featured on the case back . I can honestly say that this is one of the best feeling watches on the wrist that I own . It's one of those "You know it when you feel it " Pleasures . The Watch :

To many watches are waiting the wonder (somehow getting new pivots or staffs) disassembled in the shelf in small boxes. So i decided to put every other projects aside and make a pivot drill. First, the dimensions of the tool were determined after measuring pictures found on google Damn is it tiny! 50x40x10mm brass was drilled through with 3mm drill on a table drill press. The middle was sawed out to leave 10mm and 12mm wide headstocks. The hole on the 12mm side was reamed to 3.175mm for the carbide microdrill shank diameter. Female cones from 3mm blue steel with 0.4mm hole at the end and from 5mm steel with 0.5mm hole were turned on the Dremel and ER20 "lathe" respectively. These holes are for the current gear staff to be drilled but i will need a series of cones later. Well, its ugly yet, i know But the drill cought right the center. And now you can guess if i have big collets to turn the pulley wheel :/

The hinged springs are a lot easier to fit (won't fly) when you fiddle with it. For the non-hinged versions of this type of spring I use a piece of sharpened peg wood to hold it in place when tucking the legs in. I always do this under my stereo microscope which is a tremendous help.

Nice Time piece ricardopalamino! In the 70's everything had to be extravaganza and high heels. But up in the Swiss alps Longines though about making a comeback from the Quarts attack. The result is like this clean and crisp golden winged watch, powered with an 6952 movement it has a elaborate complication which shows a date. Think I have to change the leather strap on this one since it feels a bit stiff, not at all like the smooth touch it used to deliver at earlier use.

Given that this is a straightforward manual wind movement you may be better getting lubrication advice from here, which reflects the oils available today: http://www.nawcc-index.net/Articles/BTI-The_Practical_Lubrication_of_Clocks_and_Watches.pdf

Baum & Mercier Capeland Automatoc that I picked up in a watch swap a few months ago . This came with the box and pillow . At first I just took a cursory look a this watch and thought it nothing special , so I put it away for a sale in the future . Then one day I had to attend to some business and was trying to decide which watch to wear . Since I rarely dress as formally as I had to for that meeting , I decided to wear a watch that fitted the occasion and opened the box with this watch ,.. and then realized how clean and contemporary looking this watch was, .so I choose to wear it and developed an appreciation for it . It doesn't look it because of it's pure round shape , but this watch is a tad over 39mm W/O the crown .

Looks fantastic--congrats on achieving this level of technical proficiency! J

I have had a problem with some of those "nifty tools" made of "chinezium". the design is excellent and the steel is soft. vin

i use a safety razor blade, jewelers hammer with the watch on edge. after it enters, use a case oprner knife. vin

I use a Stanley knife blade to open my Rotary. Just enough to create a gap to use the normal case opener. It is well machined and no gap to insert anything but not that tight once it starts moving.

I hav bought a Stowa pocket watch 11 months ago with both balance pivots broken. Now i had repivoted both and of the staff.