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is there a "tool maker" in the house? vin SEND ME YOUR SKETCHES I HAVE CNC CAPABILITIES Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Hi to everyone and merry Christmas! Today I'm wearing my beloved Doxa 1200T Professional

Picked up a wrist watch from the junk pile to resurrect it for my Mrs for Christmas. I had extreme difficulties, but at the end it started to tick, well the sort of. I go into details (and cry) later. The holder is made out of my neighbor tree (glue will look better once dried). Probably not the finest artwork but at least I made it. Merry Christmas to everyone!

A couple of years ago I traded a nice Seiko hereby seen by its B-side Today I got on my hands on this one: just two numbers apart, of the many made that same year and month. This had an amplitude of "just" 220° after few seconds from full wind. That wasn't enough for me today, so I tried the so called mini service which is cleaning and oiling the balance and pallet only. It reacted very badly to this questionable practice, dropping amplitude to less than 180°, although always with a clean pattern. Then while reinserting the stem I managed to snap a teeth off a plastic corrector wheel. Oh well, calendar off, main bridge off, there was a short fiber sitting on the seconds wheel or thereabout.. all parts bathed in hexane (that's yet another name for petroleum ether), rinse in distilled water, rinse in IPA, all is scrumptiously cleaned and lubricated, now an end stone suddenly disappears... To the spares tray again.. everything back together and Bob's your uncle at 270° amp. and perfect pattern. So what about the lost cap jewel? I had searched for some time with day light, but it must have camouflaged good on my cherry wood desk bench, so I went on with reassembling. Then at dark I took a so-called UV mini-light all over the place, it took 30 seconds to see it shining in full fluo

Spending time looking for misplaced parts is part of watch repairing.

Check if return bar , returns castle wheel to engage teeth with winding pinion. Also If winding pinion teeth engage that of winding wheel? Have you repalced the winding stem?

I gave my 16 year old nephew an SNK809. 6 month later, he gave it back saying it would not wind any more. The rotor was loose. I don't know what he did to this poor watch in such a short time. I tightened the rotor screw and sent him on his way. No problems since. There is a proper orientation for the rotor. Read the 7S26 technical guide for easy to understand pictures.

the problem with expensive watches are typically no parts are available to anyone in the universe without sending the watch back to the factory. So anyone who has a more expensive watch has to accept the consequence of that is it's going to be expensive to get fixed. so ignoring my above statement let's get your mainspring so the first step is we need a model number. But in the absence of a model number I'll look in my mainspring catalog are you sure the manufactures name is Corum? that's because there are no mainsprings for that company in the catalog. so any of the references I look at indicate that company does not exist as there are zero spare parts and of course associate with the zero spare parts are zero parts lists cross-references or anything. unfortunately In watch repair for a variety of reasons you cannot always look up the parts you need fortunately mainsprings sometimes probably not in this case but sometimes you can find things that are similar. So for that you need to disassemble the watch remove the mainspring and get us some measurements. The width and the thickness of the spring and we will have to calculate the length. Then visually even though the watch looks relatively simple there will be some minor issues like there does not appear to be a separate balance bridge so the entire thing has to go together as one unit but at least all the parts are out for you can see them versus other watches were there hiding under things.

I believe Bergeon makes single size tools as well. They run about 50 bucks each. For the large pusher this spline set works too. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143412662280 Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Lol. I was trying to be all watch maker uppity....the one you shared is actually the one I have. Ive learned that for every ridiculously overpriced watch tool there is a cheap chinese knock off. The trick is knowing when the knock off is decent enough. Some times the chinese knock offs arent worth the cost to ship them. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

You can use a screw extractor. Search Internet to see what is that. Heat well the case around the tube before and proceed carefully.

Unless there is damage to the inner side or how the pusher works, leave it alone.

Merry Christmas to all. It was a good year and you guys were supper supportive. Make sure you relax and have a good time. I am making sure my watches are not sick:) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

A black dial Lorus day date. Advertised as in unworn condition, but not running, still in box. For 0.99p you can't really go wrong. In the unlikely event that it needs more than a battery, the strap alone is worth more than that.

I do very little with a lot of expensive tools. Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk

Time to get my Omega Speedmaster Mark II into the rotation . I changed out the stainless bracelet last night for this Nylon strap . I'm not a big fan of NATO straps , but I like this look .

Today is a good day to wear my Bulova Oceanographer Automatic Snorkel 666 feet ,... "Devils Diver "...

This beaut had the chance to come along on a morning stroll today with the baby.

Squale feels like summer.

This doesn't get much wrist time but when I do it feels so right! On this one the inner bezel still moves. 6139-6002 from June '75. Anilv

Today I'm wearing this 1969 Speedmaster. The dial colour turned into a nice brown, maybe it got too much radiation on it's way to the moon.

I'm not sure when the styles changed but I do know that as the Seiko Pogue 6139 - 600x evolved from the first model , 1969 I believe , the words on the dial changed from "Water70Proof", to "Water70Resist " . to no depth markings . If you see a watch that says Water Proof on the dial or case back you can be sure it is pre 70's ......... i think that there were some regulation changes that mandated this because most of these watches were not in fact waterproof to depth , but water resistantant for swimming , showering , etc .

Well after some 30 years without a service this 1977 Seiko was in desperate need of tlc, luckily the cosmetics of the dial and hands are quite good and the inner bezel has aged like they all do . Timing is the same as it was the day it was made New favourite in my collection ( long overdue ) Not quite as nice as that Favre

I picked up this non-running Hamilton with a Swiss ESA 9158 electronic movement on the bay for $25 . It has a screw down crown , and when it arrived I could see that a bezel was missing . I searched the internet to see if I could find a picture of what the old bezel looked like , with no luck . The rubber watchband was salty , dirty , and twisted into the shape it was stored in . When I opened it up I was presented with a movement that was swimming in oil ,...you could almost pour the oil out . I had to clean my tools and work surface when I got it out . I removed the dial , hands , and dial ring and cleaned them up hoping that the finish on the dial and hands wasn't ruined . I was able to find a complete working movement for $20 . Fortunately, after cleaning up the case , dial , hands , and watchband , everything looked good enough to re-use with no apparent damage done by the oil soaked parts . I reassembled the watch with the donor movement and it was off and running . I checked my stash of parts to see if I happened to have an old bezel that would fit the case . I pulled out a Seiko bezel that I had changed out on a Seiko 6138-0011 UFO / Yachtsman I have and it fit . I used a piece of brass wire of the right diameter to form a bezel spring to fit between the bezel and case , as each part had a slot where a ring would fit . Luckily all the parts fit very well . The bezel fits firmly and turns as it should . The Seiko UFO .... And The Hamilton Electronic...I have since , reset the day and date...

I can scratch this one off of my wish list . A beautiful Hamilton Ventura in excellent condition...I'm stoked... I removed half of the reference #...

Let's try a Bulova Accutron Space View 214 movement dated M1 , which converts to 1961...

A Little Tech today... Citizen Eco-Drive Titanium Satellite Wave F-100 ~~~ [ satellite controlled ]~~~

Desk diving today with Seiko 6309-7040 from Dec 1984. Has been reworked with new hands, dial, bezel insert and case base been lightly polished. This is one of the easiest wearing divers watch I've had the pleasure to slap on my wrist and fits ok under the sleeve of a dress shirt. This case style originally came with a black bezel but the guy I bought it from fitted a 'Pepsi' bezel. Looks good and it'll probably stay this way. I have to say the quality of aftermarket parts is really goods these days..the only problem with the ones here is the poor lume. Close up of the dial..alignment of the '150m' could be better! Anil

Here's my most recent addition to the collection, now serviced...

Junghans Chronoscope today - this has a 7750 movement under the hood.