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One of my neighbours recently gave me his wife's watch to look at, he just said ''it's not working do you think you could do anything with it ?''.

It's a tiny Seiko ladies watch, I took out the movement and found a broken click spring,

nothing remarkable about that except it must be the smallest click spring I've ever seen !  barely visible with the naked eye , Cousins even had one !   ( £1.50 ) 

Watch now working  :)

Just thought I'd post it.

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On ‎10‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 6:28 AM, anilv said:

 I currently have a ladies Eterna 1441 on my desk and the **BLEEP** clickspring is giving me grief.

I actually fitted the spring with the movement in the storage tray in case it dropped ( as in photo ) then I layed the the spring in place without putting it under tension until I covered it with the click & started the screw about half a turn, this stops it flying away when you locate it properly.

Hope this helps  !     :) 

 

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