Hello from Spain

[Nacho]

Hello guys, my name is Nacho , I´m from Spain and I recently started repairing my own watches because I bought a non running watch that it was supposed to be a simple battery change and it had turned into the IIIWW. I was very dissapointed because the watch didn´t need just a battery change, the reallity was that the watch had a mayor water leak and everything inside was heavily rusted. The seller refused to return me the money so my dissapointment reached stratosferic levels. Anyway I have turned the lemmon into lemmonade because now I don´t have a watch, now I have a new hobby ;D and this is the reason why I´m here right now.

The watch is a Citizen Aqualand C020, I´m trying to restore it and probably I have done far beyond my habilities and knoledge ( probably I have destroyed more than I have repaired...but the watch now runs...badly) . Until now I have done this:
Cleaning the rust, making a micro soldering to one of the traces of the circuit, changing the quartz cristal for a new one and many parts of the movement (third wheel, setting wheel, rotor, minute wheel, stem, yoke and setting lever...).
The problem is that the watch loses time , a lot of time, I´ve tried to clean everithing but provably I will need an ultrasonic cleaner to be sure everithing is nice and proper.
My question is if anybody knows if the trimmer of the circuit (I think it´s a trimmer) should be able to control such a great loos of time, more than a second per minute!!!, or it´s not designed to cope with such a great fault . Maybe I should replace it aswell?.
Maybe I didn´t explained the problem very clearly and my English doesn´t cooperate aswell to be more clear, but if any of the community have an answer or a clue it whould be really appreciated. Thank you all and sorry for beiing too extensive.

[Nacho]

Some pictures of the war zone...

[clockboy]

Welcome Nacho, Most quartz watches no longer have trimmer adjustments and when fitted were for only small incremental adjustments. Looking at the movement pictures I would say a replacement movement would be the answer if available.

This site has some parts but unfortunately no circuits

http://www.speedtimerkollektion.com/shop/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=citizen+c022&search_in_description=1&x=10&y=6

[Ishima]

Bienvenidos a nuestro forum!

[Nacho]

Thank you for the reply. I was in contact with them , in fact this shop is located in Spain , but as you said they don´t sell circuits nor LCD´s ( it was totally bleed and I´m on a hunt form one aswell). By the way I have replaced a lot of the parts of the movement with new ones that came from a donor brand new miyota 3W00 movement . I was thinking about the posibility that the hands could have some degree of responsibility in the problem because from a couple of weeks till now the watch has an inconsistent behavior: It can run for 5 hours without losing time but then it loses time very fast and even the seconds hand can stop completely for some seconds and then starts again doing this stops several times per minute...so the watch movement is totally spoiled I guess..

[Nacho]

Do you speak Spanish Ishima?

[Ishima]

I'm studying, I can speak some, badly. I will learn. 

[Pip]

Well if it’s an Aqualand you will do well to talk with Louis who is a very helpful man. He is on here as@ricardopalamino and there is not much he doesn’t know about Aqualand watches.


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[Nacho]

Ok cool, I´ll ask him to see if we can find the solution. I´ll keep you informed. Thanks.

[ricardopalamino]

Aloha ,  

Yes , My name is Louis , I live in Hawaii , my username is ricardopalamino and I do have a couple of vintage Citizen Aqualand watches BUT I am not the Aqualand Guru . 

That would be my good friend Lpuis ,who goes by the username Longbike  on the Seiko Citizen Watch Forum and also Wrist Sushi . 

Longbike also lives in Hawaii and we are confused for each other often . I know that Longbike has a gazillion Aqualands and has been able to bring some back to life numerous times . He also  has a good stockpile of parts for these watches .

I know he will help you with any questions you may have on these watches .

 

Here's a link that will help you contact him ….Good Luck

http://wristsushi.proboards.com/thread/15464/little-ago-more-box

[ricardopalamino]

12 minutes ago, ricardopalamino said:

Aloha ,  

Yes , My name is Louis , I live in Hawaii , my username is ricardopalamino and I do have a couple of vintage Citizen Aqualand watches BUT I am not the Aqualand Guru . 

That would be my good friend Lpuis ,who goes by the username Longbike  on the Seiko Citizen Watch Forum and also Wrist Sushi . 

Longbike also lives in Hawaii and we are confused for each other often . I know that Longbike has a gazillion Aqualands and has been able to bring some back to life numerous times . He also  has a good stockpile of parts for these watches .

I know he will help you with any questions you may have on these watches .

 

Here's a link that will help you contact him ….Good Luck

http://wristsushi.proboards.com/thread/15464/little-ago-more-box

OPPS ,…Longbike's name is Louis . I misspelled my own name…..darn computers...

[Pip]

That’s incredible. You are not the same Louis but you both have Aqualands and both on Hawaii? Fantastic, what a small world we live in. Please accept my apologies for thinking you were one and the same, E kala mai ia`u.


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[Nacho]

Thank you so much everyone . You all are so kind , I really appreciate your help 

[ro63rto]

Welcome to the forum and i confirm the Louis aka Longbike over on Wrist Sushi is THE man to approach for help on Aqualands. Very helpful man!

[ricardopalamino]

6 hours ago, Pip said:

That’s incredible. You are not the same Louis but you both have Aqualands and both on Hawaii? Fantastic, what a small world we live in. Please accept my apologies for thinking you were one and the same, E kala mai ia`u.


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