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Hi all,

I just got my hands on a Ricoh automatic and am currently working on it. Its all dismantled and taken apart and I'll be starting to clean it and put it back together again.

Coincidentally another member here 'arkobugg' is also working on the same movement and posed a question here  

about the set-lever spring.. isn't that funny? I haven't really given serious thought about this particular movement and when I bought it I was thinking that it was an uncommon movement and along comes another one!

Anyway here are some pictures from the eb@y seller.. pictures show the watch is externally rough but internal parts are quite ok and worth a gamble, besides I like the 'split-day/date' displays. When I got it I found the dial was in bad shape.. the applied RICOH logo was bent/broken as well...ah well...

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The date-pusher was jammed up and I was hoping that the spring inside was ok as it seems to be a rivetted construction. After a soak and some vigorous scrubbing and a few blasts of WD-40 followed by soap and more brushing it seems to be ok now.

I'll probably have a go at putting it back together again this weekend and I'll be sharing some pictures here.

cheers

Anilv

 

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I am working also on this movement. Recorded the whole disassebly.... but my tablet generated a 0 kb file... :pulling-hair-out:

Anyway, here is it disassembled. I have also an other one from India, it was 2.5 USD.... Bought it for replacement parts but it is fully working :) I will record that next time and the reassembly of this one.

 

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