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  1. Disassembly pictures and assembly pictures in my following posts if you don’t wish to read the following. For some unknown reason I never omit to mention to my IT students (.NET) that I have a passion for watches, that this passion is my analogous counterweight to my digital interests, and that there are a lot of similarities. Often, I am pleasantly surprised to learn that in almost every class there seems to be at least one or two students who share my passion for watches. The watch in the following walkthrough, an early 1960s Omega SeaMaster housing a calibre 268, belongs to a former student of mine who trusted it to me for a service. So, I take this opportunity to thank you Mattias for your trust! The base movement of the calibre 268 (pdf parts list here) is the calibre 260 (pdf parts list here). It is a textbook example of what a manually wound mechanical watch is all about, and if it were not comparatively expensive it would be the perfect candidate for the beginning learner. Anyway, if you happen to have an Omega calibre 260-based watch in your drawer, you don’t mind breaking or losing something that will need to be replaced, and you wish to take the watchrepairlessons.com courses, then this movement will be just the thing. It is almost identical in design to the Unitas calibre 6498 used in the courses. I should mention that this walkthrough is not a tutorial. I have made it for my personal use and enjoyment. It will show what I do, what parts I lubricate, and in what order, but it will not show how I do it or describe the cleaning process. That said, the walkthrough includes some tips to facilitate the work. For example, I had some difficulty getting the stem out until I realised it wasn’t enough to loosen the setting lever screw but that it also needed to be depressed. So, I took a note of that and included it in this walkthrough. There are many ways to service and repair a watch, but I usually follow the practices as taught at watchrepairlessons.com, and it has worked very well for me. I am in no way affiliated with watchrepairlessons.com but to me it has been the best, most enjoyable, and most affordable way to get started with servicing and repairing watches, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. I was somewhat hesitant make this walkthrough. After all, it offers no “horological wonders” to uncover. As mentioned, it’s a textbook example of a mechanical watch and @Mark has already made an excellent and possibly more useful walkthrough here: Omega 268 Service And De-Rust. However, it was such a beautiful movement that I just could not resist the challenge to try to take some nice macro images of it and its parts. And hand on heart, I enjoy creating and sharing these walkthroughs (I guess it is the teacher in me). However, this time around I’ve tried to minimize the number of pictures but still make it clear what is going on. I’m getting long winded, but just one more thing. To me this watch and movement pretty much constitutes the epitome of aesthetics and function. I can admire its exterior and interior from any angle endlessly, and the fit and finish of the parts are outstanding (definitely a notch up, or two, or three from the Russian movements that I adore and usually work on). When assembling the movement, it feels like the parts are magically drawn together. It is quite clear that this watch was designed to be appreciated and enjoyed not just by its owner but by the watchmaker servicing it. So, without further ado, here goes…
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