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Hi, this is my first restoration - a 1960s Ebel caliber 59 watch that belonged to my grandmother. While disassembling, the yoke and spring flew out so I don’t know exactly how they go back in. Below are pictures of the yoke and spring. I will need to re clean before putting back, don’t worry 🙂 But my question is can you tell me how to reassemble the yoke and spring such that the spring is activated against the yoke? 

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The screw holes and pivots vary, but almost all watches use the same layout.
The hole in the yoke goes where your spring is sitting, and the spring sits underneath. Like this

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32 minutes ago, SiZi said:

Hi, this is my first restoration - a 1960s Ebel caliber 59 watch that belonged to my grandmother. While disassembling, the yoke and spring flew out so I don’t know exactly how they go back in. Below are pictures of the yoke and spring. I will need to re clean before putting back, don’t worry 🙂 But my question is can you tell me how to reassemble the yoke and spring such that the spring is activated against the yoke? 

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One of the posts on the yoke ( the middle one )acts against the spring to allow created tension for the yoke to return to setting lever winding position. The tail of the yoke would sit in clutch groove,hmm the other post , something doesn't look quite right, where is the setting bridge with jumper . Lets find another picture. 

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This is a tiny little movement (the grandmother thing gave that away 😉 ) so to conserve space they stacked the spring and the yoke under the setting lever spring. @Neverenoughwatches is correct about the first pin on the yoke, it does sit behind the spring to apply tension to the winding pinion. The second one sits in the winding pinion with the tip of the yoke being moved by the setting lever. This is all held in place by the setting lever spring.

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This is the whole thing assembled.

 

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16 minutes ago, AndyGSi said:

Based on the photo from Ranfft below I don't think it's an Ebel 59.

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It is, my movement looks the same. The yoke and spring go under the jumper you have in the picture 

2 minutes ago, eccentric59 said:

This is a tiny little movement (the grandmother thing gave that away 😉 ) so to conserve space they stacked the spring and the yoke under the setting lever spring. @Neverenoughwatches is correct about the first pin on the yoke, it does sit behind the spring to apply tension to the winding pinion. The second one sits in the winding pinion with the tip of the yoke being moved by the setting lever. This is all held in place by the setting lever spring.

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This is the whole thing assembled.

 

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Yes I just realized thanks to both of you! Now I’m struggling with how to actually get it in there. Let me try a few things and report back tomorrow.

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I didn't realise it was such a small movement. I did say "almost all watches use the same layout" 🤣

I've never seen this layout before. You learn something new every day 😀

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