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Hello everyone, happy to join the community after some lurking around the forum. I'm a software living in Paris France (originally for Slovenia) an I was looking to get some quality time off the screen 🙃. Since my background is in mechanical engineering/robotics, the idea of using my hands to build has been very exciting and I cant wait to get started - very much looking forward to using my hands to not just tap on keyboards!

I'm currently going through the online course and have ordered my first watch off ebay that will be up for restoration. Going to finish the first course about essential tools over this weekend, order the basic tools and hopefully end the project with success and inspiration to do more!
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Appreciate all the help and the inclusive community you all built ❤️

 

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Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

That is not the best type of movement to start with. A large basic movement is best, I always say a pocket watch is best. If you are going to start with a watch movement you don't want one with sweep seconds and calendar. 

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1 hour ago, oldhippy said:

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

That is not the best type of movement to start with. A large basic movement is best, I always say a pocket watch is best. If you are going to start with a watch movement you don't want one with sweep seconds and calendar. 

Ah, I understand. I will look for some pocket watches, my grandma has a few. One thing I did was find a whole disassembly and assembly video for this movement on youtube, so I kind of went for it (also I like the watch, figured at worst I would keep it until my skills are good enough)
 

The movement is 2614.2H from what I can see from the screenshot of the ebay listing.

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2 hours ago, JonasB said:

Ah, I understand. I will look for some pocket watches, my grandma has a few. One thing I did was find a whole disassembly and assembly video for this movement on youtube, so I kind of went for it (also I like the watch, figured at worst I would keep it until my skills are good enough)
 

The movement is 2614.2H from what I can see from the screenshot of the ebay listing.

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Welcome 🙂

The upper setting for the balance is missing so you'd need that part before it would run correctly anyway. Not sure how hard parts are to find for Russian movements... others on here would. 

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13 hours ago, Plato said:

Welcome 🙂

The upper setting for the balance is missing so you'd need that part before it would run correctly anyway. Not sure how hard parts are to find for Russian movements... others on here would. 

Hey Plato, thanks so much! Indeed, it looks like the jewel on the balance wheel is missing. I'm, looking over ebay for a replacement, there are some spare mechanisms (working ones) and I may just get one instead of getting just the parts.
(reference movement screenshot)
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