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Hi,

I just bought a Reina or Reima Swiss made watch cleaning machine (see photo's). Beside the brand name, there are two more names visible: Golay - Buchel & Cie Lausanne Suisse and Werner Schilter Machine bau, Kriens-Sweiz (probably the company who made this machine). If have number 623 and it works completely mechanical. By pumping the fluids from different compartments below to the top camber the watch parts are washed. A metal knob turns when the washing program is running and some metal pins will switch to a different part of the watching program. I don't have an instruction manual.

Can anybody tell me more about this watch cleaning machine?

Does someone have an instruction manual?

Thank you for your help, Jacob

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Very nice looking machine! I'd imagine though that all the pumping of liquids is going to cause a lot more contamination of fluids, since you can never get all the liquid out of the main chamber by just pumping..

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2 hours ago, Geo said:

I don't think it is designed fir cleaning watch parts.  The company on the name plate specialises in supplying pearls and gemstones to the jewellery industry.  I suspect the machine may be designed for cleaning the above.

have a read of this. http://listofcompanies.co.in/2012/01/16/golay-buchel-holding-sa/

That might be why I've never heard of it. I wasn't into gemology. 

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Golay - Buchel & Cie Lausanne Suisse  registered the "Favorite" trademark for watchmakers tools in 1939 and manufactured a full range of tools for the watchmaker with there catalogue running at over 300 pages many on this site will own and use Favorite tools. 

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Thanks for responding.@teegee on the bottom of the top chamber is a valve, this valve select a new liquid to fill and emptying the top chamber. See picture.
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Every flask has its own tubing so hardly any cross contamination will happen.


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@geo I'm convinced that this machine is specially designed to clean watches. It shows in the way the basket is mounted and the special designed baskets.6bd94a0ca8b64cf188161a25314fb9f7.jpg05d22b788b20926d844fe64b8b297003.jpg


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Golay - Buchel & Cie Lausanne Suisse  registered the "Favorite" trademark for watchmakers tools in 1939 and manufactured a full range of tools for the watchmaker with there catalogue running at over 300 pages many on this site will own and use Favorite tools.

I think your assumption that it is a watch cleaning machine is correct it looks to be a similar type of machine to a Bulova VC-10 watch cleaning machine.

 The information on the company was found at the following site,

http://www.mikrolisk.de/show.php?site=280&suchwort=Golay&searchWhere=all

They where once a very big company in the manufacture of watch tools but seem to have been restructed, in the 1980's and now as Geo has already stated they did supplie gem stones to the watch industry and pearls to the jewellery trade, I think they still had headquarters at Lausanne until recently.

They have been bought out a number of times and it appears they may have been dissolved as a company in Switerland this year,

https://www.moneyhouse.ch/en/company/golay-buchel-et-cie-s-a-12282108651

The catalogue for the full range of watch tools they used to make can be bought from the following site,

www.lathes.co.uk  but costs £130.00.

The machine I suspect will have been made in very small quanties and been very expensive judging from the quality of build so I dont think you will find much info on it.

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12 hours ago, paaj said:

Every flask has its own tubing so hardly any cross contamination will happen.

Still it seems like it uses a lot of fluids and complications, making it awkward and unpractical for hobbyist's use.

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Still it seems like it uses a lot of fluids and complications, making it awkward and unpractical for hobbyist's use.


The amount of fluids is the same as used in for example a Elma. I agree that it has more complications, however I love complicated things that's why I'm working with watches.


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On 15/11/2016 at 10:28 AM, paaj said:

@geo I'm convinced that this machine is specially designed to clean watches. It shows in the way the basket is mounted and the special designed baskets.6bd94a0ca8b64cf188161a25314fb9f7.jpg05d22b788b20926d844fe64b8b297003.jpg


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It does indeed look like it is for cleaning movement parts.  Like you I just love the engineering in it! :)

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