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Hi all, I am still on the learning curve. After stripping and reassembling two pocket watch movements to understand how they work I bought a Sekonda hunter pocket watch with 3602 movement that didn't work. I started with a little fault finding. 1 - I removed the balance assy. and pallet cock 2 - I wound it a little and everything turned 3 - I cleaned and rebuilt and wound again, WOW it worked but seemed very lazy/the balance moved slowly. I bought another Sekonda, open face railway watch not working, no number on the movement and the holes for the mounting screws were placed differently,otherwise the movement looked the same. I did the same fault finding and found that the balance wheel wobbled about indicating a possible damaged shaft. 1 - I removed the balance assemblies from this watch and the 3602 2 - I fitted the assembly from the 3602 movement and after aligning every thing and seating it carefully in place the balance wheel starting moving at a more acceptable pace until I did a final tightening. Loosen the screw and slightly pry the balance cock and it swung into action. I had cleaned the jewels with pegwood and oiled. Do you think that the parts may be slightly different? When I was in mobile plant repair all parts had a number, easy peasy! I think I may have to take the balance cock off a good open faced Sekonda pocket watch. Best regards, Gareth