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Oiling Universal Cal. 800 escape wheel jewel


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I suggest watching this part of Mark's video on repairing a watch. It demonstrates it far better than I could explain it:

If you are struggling to remove the end stone, I suggest picking the jewel assembly up with a piece of rodico and then pulling the bottom out very carefully with tweezers. It may take a few attempts but you should get the two pieces coming apart.

Edited by Joseph111
Just realised the video didn't show part of the process
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Thanks for the answer, but I don't have a problem with the endstone of the balance, an incabloc is quite easy to handle :) the problem are the cap jewels of the escape wheel. It's not the first watch I'm working on, but I've never dealt with something like this. 

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Hey. I have a walk through about this movement. Check this

And the cap jewel of the escape wheel can be taken of. you just need to use a tweezer and turn it just like how you deal with seiko diashock jewels and if can fall of. As for the lurbrication, you can check my walkthrough.

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