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Something is wrong . That is jamming the movement up . A screw in the wrong place? When you pick on one of the wheels and tried to spin it a little ? Does the balance spin? Are all the pivots in the jewels? Have you cleaned the mainspring? 

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Something is wrong . That is jamming the movement up . A screw in the wrong place? When you pick on one of the wheels and tried to spin it a little ? Does the balance spin? Are all the pivots in the jewels? Have you cleaned the mainspring?

I can move the main spring and all wheels turn freely without the pallet cock in place. I have not cleaned the main spring as I Don't have the tools. The balance spins fine and the pallets move the escape wheel for around 10-20 ticks it then slows and the stops. I'm going to strip and double check everything again.

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Didn't remove the jewels. I can't see anything but that's what it looks like. It's weird. Was very carefully to make sure all was free at all times of assemblly.

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How did you do to oil them? Did you clean them? Remove and clean ;) . I always remove the jewels and clean them in a small pot or lighter fluid. As it is the part in the watch that most important.

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So full strip. Oiled everything. It seems to be the barrel bridge is putting pressure on the main spring. If I loosen the scenes it seems much better. I just refitted into the case and were back to the start again !!!

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