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Greetings! Just joined the forum and completed my first ever overhaul. It's a little vintage Waltham mechanical, circa 1960's to my understanding. Certainly nothing very valuable dollar-wise, but being my first successful overhaul I'm proud of it. :-) When it arrived the old oil had it so gunked up nothing would even move. A good thorough cleaning and a little fresh oil and she's ticking beautifully!

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Tidy job you done with your first overhaul Brian, many thanks for sharing. If you have pictures of the overhaul, it would be great to share these as well as It may help others. There are a lot of us on here that like studying the detail in different movements. :)

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Hi Bparks.. any photo of the movement?

 

There were some Walthams which used a variation of the Seiko cal 66B and I wonder if this could have been one of them.

 

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I opened up the case again to get a picture of the movement. I also have a few shots that I took for reference, just wish I took more now, and better quality.3eea2fcfe3fbeba07077800ce41f3f6b.jpg

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First progress shot, partially into the disassembly. Sorry for the blur, I was still trying to figure out how to photograph it at the time.

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That's not a movement I've come across, thanks for the pictures. Remember to take lots of pictures during disassembly, it's amazing how often it answered the question regarding spring and lever fitting.

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It was certainly an odd one to work on, everything from the mainspring size (1.28mm wide?), to the assembly for the hairspring, one of the gears actually sits directly between the hairspring and its pallet, ever seen anything like that? I have more photos on the way of further disassembly.

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Aloha and welcome bparks . Good job on an interesting movement ,....makes me want to get one and take a peek in person  . I too like that center bridge and the watchband with the gold on the outside and the leather [i think} , on the inside .

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