Jump to content

How to rivet a broken bracelet back together?


AlexeiJ1

Recommended Posts

Hiya,
I recently picked up an Omega Calypso Diver on my travels, and it is missed a rivetted pin in the bracelet near the clasp. Whilst I am a seasoned tinkerer, I havent repaired bracelets in this fashion before.
I am just wondering if there is any advice on inserting/making a new one?
It is in similar place to photo I attached.
It is the one between the clasp and other side of the strap.

Was thinking of stainless steel nail, turned down on grinder and then gently peen it with a hammer?
New strap is unobtainable.


Any ideas let me know, cheers!

Alexei

Capture.PNG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If you do decide to go the DIY route, I'd suggest chucking the nail into a drill (ideally drill press) and turning it down against sandpaper. You'll get better results than trying to do it against a grinder. It's all but impossible to get something with a perfectly round cross-section by hand with a grinder.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Or the next smaller undersize

5 hours ago, qhartman said:

If you do decide to go the DIY route, I'd suggest chucking the nail into a drill (ideally drill press) and turning it down against sandpaper. You'll get better results than trying to do it against a grinder. It's all but impossible to get something with a perfectly round cross-section by hand with a grinder.

Or the next smaller undersize

Link to comment
Share on other sites

22 hours ago, TexasDon said:

As an alternative, look here:

blog.esslinger.com/watch-band-pin-illustrations/ 

Scroll down the page to see if anything useful pops out at you.

I now I still have a lot to learn in general with watch repair, but thought I atleast I knew everything about watch pins and spring bars, and your link has just proven I didn't.

I hadn't come across 'Pressure Pin for Security Catch on Clasp' before and a quick look on Cousins also shows a whole section I had previously missed.

https://www.cousinsuk.com/category/fittings-pressure-bars-rivet-ends

Thank you, you have now made today a good day as I have learnt something new.

Link to comment
Share on other sites



  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Topics

  • Posts

    • one little minor problem with your chemistry experiment here which is what exactly is epilam? In other words is it an exact substance with the chemical you specify or is it a term? For instance originally it was steric acid either dissolved in some sort of solvent or it was applied by vaporizing it. Then now it's all kinds of different things the watch companies all have different ideas there's a whole bunch of patents. So is not always an exact substance.   let me snip out a image from the patent that I attached up above. Notice I highlighted something it seems to disagree with your evaluation.  
    • I guess You had to try, as it would be hard to sleep without that try, but, I know the result before the experiment... As I told before, the friction will be so big that the wheel will not turn. The pivots have to be thin and polished - the bigger the number of the wheel (2th, 3gh, 4th...), the thinner the pivot. What You are trying to do is possible, but forming the new thin pivot must be done on lathe. Thus the wheel will get shorter, but can have new pivot without the drilling for normal standard repivoting. Then piece of brass can be soldered under the pivot hole in the bridge and new hole drilled in it to form the new bearing.  Well, this way is not the recommended one, not quite correct, but it is possible to do for the excersize... When I say lathe, lathe may be verry simple, someting like turns, but made of what one has in reach of his hands. If You want to try, I will try to guide
    • yes by all means let's gather up our weapons tar feathers find the nearest tree in case Mark is not agreeable to our terms on our demands and storm his Castle. I don't quite understand what you're trying to do here? In other words you want Mark to somehow guarantee that the group will live on forever no matter what? You want Mark to somehow change his business model of what is trying to do or should we just take the group away from him? oh and is quite possible that Mark never realized that his discussion group would take on a life of its own. That the members of the group would like to continue on forever.  
    • I'm not sentimental, I see it this way.  I inherit something I  don't like, I could sell it, buy something I do like and remember the person with the new item.  For example, I  inherit a watch ( I haven't), I don't like it, I  buy a watch I do like, every time I look at the watch, I think of the person. 
    • A lot of it has to do with a generations attitude.  Have we reached a generation of folk yet that have no sentimental values ie. Just an object to sell . I expect my kids will sell my collection , maybe keep one valued piece. Not being in the game very long, i have no idea when the sale of old watches boomed or if it has even reached its peak yet. If we go back 20 years what were ebay sales like then, expense wise and volume ?
×
×
  • Create New...