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3 hours ago, spectre6000 said:

Always good to bring one back to life! How did you tweak the balance pivot? Also, what did that come in?

I put it on a balance poiser and rolled it to find out which way it was bent.  It was not a really bad bend...just bad enough.  Then I noted the position of the roller jewel so that I could know when I was 180 degrees out of phase with the bend (the upward bend became a downward bend).  Then in that position, I gently pressed down to correct it while holding the balance with my other finger.  Once I thought I had made some progress, I took a triangular arkansas stone and rolled it along on the poiser on that pivot.  It was crude and the stone was larger than I wanted, but I could not find a better solution in the bench.  At the time, I did not know I had an equivalent Dumont #8.

Installed the hairspring (180 degrees out of phase!!!!) and installed only to realize my mistake.  Removed the hairspring and did it again right...close to right.  After installing the balance, I could see I was still out of beat.  So I removed it, put it on an anvil block, lifted the bridge while holding the balance and tweaked the hairspring collet.  Installed again and voila.

Lots of places along the way, I really need to channel either my dad or one of the experts on this forum, but I made it through.

Like I said...this is a "learner" watch, so there was no down side to the exercise.  I get incrementally better each time I work on one of these things.

The watch is still running in static position on the bench.

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