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Thanks I'll have a look. In the past I have considered a Myford Super Seven but at the time I didnt have the room for one.
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By ManSkirtBrew · Posted
What do you know, we're twinsies! Mine was just dried lubricant in the train stopping it up, but I also found a broken mainspring so I'm waiting on one of those now. Looking forward to your progress! -
Problem Solved!!! I went through my bag of "Watches I never wish I had bought / bid on" and found another watch with an EB 8800 (a 1 jewel version with a bent hairspring) and decided to swap parts until it worked. After trying the mainspring barrel I tried swapping the winding and sliding pinion - turns out it was the winding pinion. It was very hard to see on the inspection. The breguet teeth on the winding and sliding pinions are very shallow on this movement and didn't look obviously broken. At 22x mag under the microscope you can see they are worn - but I missed it at the 10x. Here is my best effort of a photo (I don't have the gear to take it through the microscope)
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By ManSkirtBrew · Posted
I pored through the manual to get some troubleshooting things to try. Opened the back, checked the voltage: 1.4v. Turn it back over to try one of the procedures...and the watch is running. It's just fine now and I have no idea why. But I'll take that win!
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