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Greetings from South Africa, Cape Town!

I'm slowly gaining experience and building up my toolset. Have found 22 watches lying around the house and they will ALL be opened and serviced! A few just needed new batteries.

The first topic I'll need help with is how to get rid of magnetism on my tweezer and some watch parts. (May this have caused a quartz model to stop running?)

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11 minutes ago, APvRV said:

The first topic I'll need help with is how to get rid of magnetism on my tweezer and some watch parts. (May this have caused a quartz model to stop running?)

You can get a cheap demagnetizer from AliExpress. They work quite well for screwdrivers and tweezers.

The stepper motor inside a quartz movement is a much stronger magnet than any magnetized tweezer could ever be. So it's unlikely that a magnetized tweezer could stop a quartz watch.

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This is a late response from me, but thanks for the guides and the welcome!!

The VERY FIRST watch I opened was a Kienzle Markant - simple to work on as a starter.

However, look at this this main spring setup. How on earth does one install a new spring into this?? I managed to get the new spring into the barrel, but realised it should get wound around the arbor first - which seems to be part of the barrel lid - but is there a tool to do that?

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4 hours ago, APvRV said:

This is a late response from me, but thanks for the guides and the welcome!!

The VERY FIRST watch I opened was a Kienzle Markant - simple to work on as a starter.

However, look at this this main spring setup. How on earth does one install a new spring into this?? I managed to get the new spring into the barrel, but realised it should get wound around the arbor first - which seems to be part of the barrel lid - but is there a tool to do that?

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Did you manage to get the mainspring into the arbor in the end? Maybe you should start a new thread to get a specific answer.

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