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Hi, just introducing myself, I’m Paul(y), a chartered engineer based in Leamington Spa, I have always enjoyed repairing things, I often work on my own car rather than taking it to the garage. I love mechanical watches and own a few of them, but have always been a bit scared to open them up. I’ve watched a few of Mark’s videos on YouTube before and with some time on my hands of late, I enrolled on the watchrepairlessons modules and have just completed stage 1. I am waiting on some supplies to arrive (including a ‘practice watch’ with a Chinese 6497 clone in it) before embarking on the 2nd and 3rd stages. I am excited to get into what I hope will be an enjoyable and rewarding hobby. One of my Seikos (with a 6r15 movement) has been running erratically recently, so hopefully I can learn enough to dive into that once I’ve built up some confidence.

 

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Have a couple of days not working, so setting off on part 2 of the lessons, really enjoying myself, only slight hiccup early on was the incabloc top spring came out completely when removing the balance pivot jewel, pinged it across room 4 times (but by some miracle located it each time :)) and finally got it safely back in place, only keyless works to go. I'm not taking the mainspring out of the barrel as I don't have a winder to put it back in.

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Back together... and running. Was a good job I followed advice to photograph disassembly process, this is a slightly different variant to the one used in the course demo, the keyless works are 90 degrees out of position, and the train is slightly different too, the 3rd wheel sitting below the 4th rather than above. The incabloc setting jumped out on me again on reassembly, I've definitely taken a dislike to them! But those aside, have really enjoyed today, going to let it sit and see if it is still running tomorrow.

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12 hours ago, Pauly said:

Timegrapher plot looks ok...

For an accurate evaluation remember to check variations in different positions, and again each 12 hours apart within the reserve

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