Omega Calibre 268 Service Walkthrough
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.
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Good old trick :-)!
I went one step further by taking measurements in-situ before removing an old mainspring. There is always at least one good spots to stick in the caliper's jaws while mainspring is still inside the barrel :-). Then divide by 10, 11, etc and voila!
Measuring just one "coil" with such caliper as shown below (in mm) is not always appropriate. How do you measure 0.125mm mainspring when your caliper has some limitations with resolution and jumps from 0.12mm to 0.13mm?
