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Well, I was board just looking for any thing to do, so I start looking in the back at all my rubbish , an there it was , a box of bits too far gone to even think about doing up, but well beggers can't be choosers plus the fact is i will only get a hour or so each day to do it.

Where do we start I ask myself, case or the movement, the fact that the mainspring and the mainspring slip piece was missing was another reason it had been thrown in a drawer by someone.
The case was covered in oil at some time and turned into a hard green crust and the movement was covered in verdigris,  the blueing on the steel case had all but been wiped off, so it was really scrapping the botton of the barrel with this one.

There are various sorts of steel blueing agents out there so I'm sure I've got something that would do, and no I'm not going down the road of heating the case and re blueing it, it's just not worth it .

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So found another scrapper ,I put the mainspring and parts together assembled the watch chucked a bit of oil at it and it actually ran, so I'm feeling a bit better now.

So I decided to clean and service the movement, scrape the verdigris off and do a proper job and see what it all looks like when it's running properly.

OI had quite a bit of work to do when i took it to pieces, screws with out any thread, no minute hand, and it was really dirty , but unbleavable it keeps time ( purley luck ), the dial is`nt the origianl but for the moment i`m not too fussed, i`m sure i will find one eventually.

The case has`nt turned out too badly either, i had a few goes & its turned out all right, ive found its best to keep these cases oiled, as they go brown if just left alone.

Not too bad really considering it only took a week to do it with the limited time i had.

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