Introduction from a Newbie

[akira7799]

Hi All,

I’m Dave and am looking forward to getting involved in this great hobby!

I’m currently in the middle of my first tear-down and realized why this parts or repair “junker” off of eBay isn't running…someone stripped most of the jewels!

I’m sure I’ll be looking for advice and help in the future, so thanks in advance!

Dave

[RichardHarris123]

Hello and welcome from Leeds, England. 

[oldhippy]

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

We all look forward to your contributions and continued involvement. 

If there is anything we can help you with don’t be afraid to ask. Nice clear photos can help a lot.

[Nucejoe]

Do you have pix of the movement as you tore it down?

Should make a habbit of taking lots of pix, helps when reasembling, identifying the caliber and occasionally we might spot fault you might have missed.

Can you put back the keyless?   Thats the calibers finger print for identification, bridge layout might help, sometime of the time.

Even brand name might help.

Good disassembly though, successfully unscrew every screw you see, but not much left to go by in the way of identifying  your watch. 

Welcome and enjoy the forum, pal.

Rgds

Edited January 18 by Nucejoe
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[AndyGSi]

Welcome to the forum.

Are there no markings on the other side of the movement?

[akira7799]

I have a photo.  It’s an AS1686 movement.

I didn’t think I’d need to buy a jeweling tool for my first watch purchase…

As far as first disassemblies, I successfully failed.  I lost the click spring as I disassembled the motion works…it pinged away hours ago and is somewhere near Neptune currently.

Also, not my doing, but one of the train wheels has no upper or lower pivots.  The cylinder looks hollow?  I’ve never heard about that before.

I’m going to do some research and see if it’s more beneficial to part it out and recoup my losses, or buy new jewels (and jeweling tool) to get it back up and running.

Edited January 19 by akira7799
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