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If you have ever wondered what is going on inside one of those infernal kwarts thingamabobs, this article might be of interest. https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Luch-quartz-wristwatch-IC-at-sc-tuning-fork The full article is here -> https://3.14.by/en/read/quartz-wristwatch-watch-ic-decapsulation#fun One point he skips over is the "16-stage divider", this doesn't divide by 16, it divides by 2^16 (or 32768) to give us our one second time reference. I still prefer a well engineered mechanical watch, but you have got to admit, there is something quite captivating about that die shot.

Yes it is actually probably was the easiest way, now the winding is effectively blocked as it should so now you can wind it to IWC specs.. Here is the new finger fitted onto the arbour.

I do not like any timepiece that is quartz.

I managed to remove them with some small force. Now it's running again . Fully jeweled movement. It took me the whole day to tinker with it.

Method.. Take two pieces of material that do fit in the groove and are deeper than the groove (two pieces of wire or plastic, or brass bar for example), place them in the groove ensuring they touch the bottom. Measure across the groove, including the two pieces of material, call that "A". Measure the width of the two pieces of material, call that "B". Subtract "B" from "A", and you have the width (diameter) of the bottom of the groove.

It’s a poor quality movement and I don’t think it is meant to be taken apart. The only thing I can think of is can you move the levers about so they slip off, or unscrew the top plate and lift the whole plate including the wheels and levers off. If you do that you will I expect have a hell of a job getting it all back together. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

Hi Johnnie ... sorry for not reacting sooner. I'll send you a sketch with some more dimensions you could check and I'll ask a friend of mine if he could turn a custom bezel. For free of course ... I've helped him on some watch repairs so if he can he'll be glad to do that. Then we'll take care of the custom insert ... just for the challenge so still for free. Envoyé de mon Moto G (5) Plus en utilisant Tapatalk

Loose canon pinion? Or a loose fitting minute hand?

Welcome.... With a pizza oven in the garden what can go wrong, Don't hesitate to ask for advice there are lots of knowledge in this forum.

Välkommen Robert!

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

welcomen. watches are a very good hobby. you don't need a big work shop. i started out with a cigar box and a few basic tools.

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This is a great project. I've heard that those old Seiko tubes couldn't be replaced but always figured there must be a way if you had the right tools and a bit of talent. I think someone else did the same job a while back and put together a document on it but I've long ago lost the links. I did a similar job to a chronograph cases a while back which had stripped out threads for the pushers. Like you I used stainless steel tubing and turned it down on a watchmakers lathe (Peerless 8mm). It wasn't too much work but it did take time- the RPMs need to be kept low and a carbide graver worked the best.

I really appreciate the critique - happy to see more. Getting the commentary from what the experienced person sees helps those of us less so (like me) learn

It's not so. Having set a wrong lift angle does not generate false knocks. Also it has nothing to with balance poising. All it does it to allow correct calculation of amplitude. It does not intervene at all in pattern, timing, or beat error.

Yes, keyboard shortcuts were already on my to-do list. I don't want to bother with a configuration screen for them, so they'll probably be fixed. I like the idea of the Space bar for start/pause/resume. Perhaps Backspace for stop, Enter for settings, and the more-or-less standard Ctrl+P for printing? It's written in Delphi for Windoze, but I could look into switching to Lazarus to get cross-platform portability. The problem is no matter what I use, the audio API will not be portable between platforms, so I'll still have to develop that separately for each (so it may never happen). Another possibility is Java, which does have a cross-platform audio interface (but that also probably isn't going to happen unless I find more pressing reasons to learn Java).