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Just arrived in the post today. Girard perregaux Gyromatic High Frequency (none runner) 17 jewel 36000 bph f98390f2c67eaaeee82b574db67e9ff8.jpgand I'm finally getting round to my Italian chronostop c69e5ee28a044fe77271553d6850d6d7.jpg0164609b5207e8c4d967f22da01b5f25.jpg

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Update on the chronostop dial. 887ca9f0b913ec0a503a31ecbbe6f3c3.jpgI have now dispatched the dial to Vsoni in Wembley for refinishing. As he can't replicate the sunburst blue due to the damaged hour markers. I've decided to go black.

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I'm currently repairing my dv2000(ya, that laptop which is reputable for its gpu failure back in 2008) that I found in my cabinet while searching for stuff. Teared it down because whenever when using, the laptop is very hot to touch and very slow too. Also the lid switch doesn't work and whenever adjusting the screen causes the backlight to flicker. Cleaned the heatsink and applied a new heatsink compound, fixed the backlight flicker(the caused of the flicker is the wire that connects to the inverter is loose). Now waiting for a core 2 duo t9300 CPU to arrive to replace the stock CPU which is a t7100 and the lid switch.

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Last saturday 28 nov was servicing this titoni cosmo king which has an eta 2784 movement. Was given to me as it no longer working. Also theres something with this keyless as i couldn't set the time. It needs a lot of pressure to put it out. I suspect the keyless is rusty.

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My guess was correct

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Clean parts! There are a bit of staining. Also ETA no longer supply some of the parts like the mainspring, stem and etc.

 

Few days ago, was servicing two chinese movement. One is TY2805 and the other is ST16. 

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The balance cock. Looks a bit like the rolex 3135 just that without the microstella screw and the blue parachrom hairspring!

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Going train

 

ST16:

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Seiko style magic lever

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One of the screw(that secures the autowinding module) head had sheared off leaving its body(thread) in the going train bridge. It happened either in the watch or bad qc. I reckon its the latter as i couldn't find any screw head in the movement.

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Removed the screw

 

Currently servicing this ricoh. Something wrong with the keyless and intermittently stop. First time heard of this brand. Not sure about its history. I reckon ricoh is the brand who makes printer and etc? Can maybe somebody correct me if im wrong? To be honest, I'm not surprised since epson and seiko the same.

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As you can see the crystal is not the original as it had a gap. I bought it used and it was like that when i bought it.

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The case damage.

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After a several research, the movement appears to be cal 215?

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The motion work.

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Removed its oscillating weight.

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The autowinding module

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Birds eye view of the whole parts!

 

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Number98, it's a very busy week for you.......and me too.

On Monday, I was repairing a Tag Carrera cal. 7750 which is having an issue with date changing.

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Tuesday, I repaired a ST-19. Chronograph was not running due to a drop. Thanks to Mark's video on servicing a Venus 175 which I've used as reference.

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Yesterday I polished the Tag Carrera case and band.

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Initial polish removing scratches.

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Finally, it's done.

Moving on to disassemble a Tudor run by cal. 7753

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Managed to put it through the cleaning process before calling it a day.

Today, polished a Rolex 6694 and then assembled the Tudor.

Tomorrow, will polish the Tudor before starting the next project later in the day.

That's what I do everyday and enjoying it. [emoji3]

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Just finished a c1959 Smiths Deluxe A358 thats been on the back burner a while now:

 

As was:

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Grubby case, badly scratched crystal, sticky out crown & to top it off a vicious expander strap good for torturing the hairs on your wrist.

 

Movement fully serviced. Second hand straightened. Cleaned case etc. New strap & crystal. Crown set correctly & it now looks like this: 

 

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The movement:

 

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Easy to work on (nice big pinions) & showing a good amp of 315 well up from its original 230. Running at +/- 8 seconds a day.

 

Shown here with its older brother an A352 from 1956:

 

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that was a very nice cleanup of that beauty, BL. i'm really liking the smiths watches the more i see of them. the only problem i have with the older watches is the size. i like a 35mm at a minimum, but all of he old hand winders seem to be 35mm max. i'll still probably pull the trigger on a smiths sooner or later.

what's the story with them, anyway? i haven't googled to read up on them yet. are they still making watches? are they the timex of england?

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Smiths produced clocks & watches from 1851 eventually opening a factory in Cheltenham producing the high end watches equal to the Swiss such as the Deluxe, Astral & Imperial ranges. The factory closed in 1970. Also a factory in Ystradgnlais, Wales, originally & joint venture with Ingersoll (not the American one) producing lower end pin levers such as the Smiths Empire & Ingersoll Triumph range & eventually a jewelled lever used in the Streamline range (see here: http://www.watchrepairtalk.com/topic/3157-smiths-streamline/). The factory closed in 1980. In the final years before closure movements were sourced from the Swiss & the Far East.

 

Smiths Group plc is now British multinational diversified engineering business with is headquarters in London, operating worldwide but unfortunately no longer produces watches.

 

The Smiths watch name is now owned by Timefactors who produce homage watches in small quantities with Swiss & Japanese movements.

 

Robert Loomes uses highly modified Cheltenham Smiths movements in his range, but you will need to save very hard to buy one.

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Currently working on my newly acquired Seiko Lord Matic 5206A, but it's being a real pain! I had it back together and all seemed well, but then I noticed that the date disc would not turn using the manual change, but would if I wound on the time 24 hours. I was scratching my head trying to figure it out, then I noticed that the balance had stopped, and would then only start for 30 seconds before dwindling to nothing and stopping 😭. I decided to put it down and watch some TV before it earned some free air-miles! 😤. Thinking I should just strip down and troubleshoot along the way and repeat the entire service. So near and yet so far!

 

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4 minutes ago, Waggy said:

Currently working on my newly acquired Seiko Lord Matic 5206A, but it's being a real pain! I had it back together and all seemed well, but then I noticed that the date disc would not turn using the manual change, but would if I wound on the time 24 hours. I was scratching my head trying to figure it out, then I noticed that the balance had stopped, and would then only start for 30 seconds before dwindling to nothing and stopping 😭. I decided to put it down and watch some TV before it earned some free air-miles! 😤. Thinking I should just strip down and troubleshoot along the way and repeat the entire service. So near and yet so far!

 

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We all know that feeling Waggy. Haha matey besides watches do you just go looking for old threads to revive ? We'll have to change your profile name to thread digger 🙂

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For your date change issue the first place to look is the little day/date corrector star wheel. This is a common problem with 5606's and arises because on some movements the star wheel is made out of plastic, which over time degrades and becomes brittle. It then splits and the quick set stops working.

On some some movements the wheel is actually made out of metal (thankfully on both of my 5606's they are metal) but whether this applies to the earlier movements and they were later changed to plastic to save money, or they started off as plastic and then changed to metal because the plastic wasn't resilient enough who knows? I suspect the former rather than the latter.

The issue is documented here, and a solution is documented here.

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Currently have a Seiko 5606-7050 on the bench. Mainly using this post to see if my crappy pictures translate! This is the disassembly Part 1 !

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Just finished up this Wostok 2605. My brother got the watch from a swap meet for $1. Not working but pretty nice overall missing the sub seconds hans. I stripped it down, cleaned and oiled. Putting it back together it slipped from my fingers and dropped about 4 inches onto the bench and snapped the sub seconds wheel pivot and cracked the jewel! What a clutz. Got on ebay and found a lot of 5 movements with dials for $20 including shipping from Ukraine. Waited 2 weeks and finally came in last week. 4 of the 5 movement that had good balances, the dials are trash but able to salvage a sub seconds hand, needed jewel and the wheel from the movement with the trashed balance spring.

For the jewels i learned that the bottom jig needs to be at least 1 size larger than the jewel size. I ended up pushing the replacement jewel from the plate of one of the donor watched into the jig, perfect fit. Unfortunately I had to use my staking set to push it out from the reverse and destroyed it. Second time with donor watch #2 with the larger jig work perfectly. Did not forget to measure the depth of the old cracked jewel and was able to put it in with no problems. Thanks to Mark's videos on jewel replacement! The minute wheel smaller pinion was rotating so the minute hand and date ring were not working properly. Once diagnosed it was an easy swap out. I will post finished pictures and timegrphwr at a later time.DSCN53872.thumb.JPG.d8ac3c0e7bb7442a18bb6d6aef411a2e.JPGDSCN54042.thumb.JPG.70bd10e9c7df2d1f90e1dcbe0e099204.JPGDSCN53882.thumb.JPG.708c62120b49ca8194c192f2b8e017ef.JPGDSCN54072.thumb.JPG.46b73562c08757cc45c690e8e2cb27f8.JPGDSCN54082.thumb.JPG.f5443db11a0ddf85869257ec9f28aad7.JPGDSCN54052.thumb.JPG.a143f88908cf10bb0394f6924257cb26.JPGDSCN54062.thumb.JPG.0200a349c21610a91006bdbbbb36dbc4.JPG

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20 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

What poor finish Russian watches are. Talk about rough. Are Russian tanks as bad as this in side? if so they must cut themselves to pieces .🤣 

Yeah pretty rough! I need to post the Russian versions as this one seems more westernized with the English printing.

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