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Once again I am asking for help. I cleaned an Illinois pocket watch. It was running well, but had a lot of lint and other debris inside. I cleaned the balance wheel and hair spring without taking the hair spring off. Cleaning was done in lighter fluid in an ultrasound machine. The movement was...
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This is an addendum to my question above. I have included a picture that I left out of my question. I also want to say that the watch was demagnetized.
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I'm relatively new to mechanical watches and have quickly become fascinated but have an elementary level question that hopefully someone can answer. If the hairspring and balance wheel come to a complete stop due to the main spring running out of power, what is it about winding that sets the ba...
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The oscillator, or something, in my automatic wrist watch seems to be greatly affected by outside temperature (summer vs winter). It seems to run fast in the summer, and even faster in winter (The manufacturer said they could adjust it). Q: Is this difference with temperature normal/possi...
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I bent the hair spring attempting to turn the hair spring collet to line up the roller jewel with the pallet fork. Manipulated it and this was the end result. I had to pat myself on the back.
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As per the title, I was checking why my Gigandet Valjoux 7733- based chrono was not working today, and noticed that the hair spring got loose from the small insert that connects it to the balance cock (what's its name again?) Taking a closer look, it appeared to have been fixed with schellac, but I...
