Sicura Bfg 866

[noirrac1j]

Hello,

I am just testing the waters by trying my first watch overhaul. By necessity I have decided to start with a pin lever escapement baumgartner 866 direct read watch. Does anyone have any jokes, comments or general suggestions on my choice? They seem very simple mechanisms.

 

Regards,

JC

Sicura Front.pdf

[bobm12]

No jokes, watches are a very serious thing! :D

Welcome to the forum nirrac1j! Forget about the above sentence, we joke all the time and learn a lot in the meantime!

[noirrac1j]

Thanks bobm12, 

 

Yes believe me nothing is more serious thank sitting at my desk at 11:45pm and having the TINIEST screw I've ever seen fall onto my work area and catapult into oblivion. I've ordered a mat from Borel :startle:.

 

JC

[bobm12]

 

Yes believe me nothing is more serious thank sitting at my desk at 11:45pm and having the TINIEST screw I've ever seen fall onto my work area and catapult into oblivion.

Oh, yeah, I forgot, and Welcome To The Club! You know, finding parts! Part of the hobby! I bet it doesn't keep us on our...toes?! By the way, both watches are very nice. Congratulations on a great start!

 

We have a section listing suppliers from all over, so feel free to check them all out or contribute with new ones.

 

A mat is very helpful but sometimes it is not enough, good tweezers -- and well maintained -- are your first line of defense against running away parts.

[Vich]

Welcome to the forum noirrac1j. Yes it doesn't matter if the watch is expensive, cheap, simple or complicated they all have little bits that want to fly off into oblivion. My solution is to come to terms with the fact that it is going to happen sometimes and there is nothing to do but get on your hands and knees and beg your wife to find it for you because it is the most important bit of the watch. (:-))

[bobm12]

Hey Vich, you are really lucky. My wife can't stand watching me working on the little bits of a watch. It gets on her nerves. She gets so stressed with the minute work that she  leaves and goes shopping (Thanks God it is with her money)! I still got my kids to help look...when they are around. :)

[noirrac1j]

Hey fellas thanks for the warm welcome. Yes I had a tiny screw fly out into the wild recesses of my old wood floor and spent an hour with wet bounty paper towels in a futile attempt to find them (yes TWO). I found one. What I wound up doing was ordering four extras at $8.00 each.

[Geo]

Welcome to the forum noirrac1j. There are lots of things going on here and a lot of folk to help you with watch issues.

That's a nice watch you have there!

[autowind]

One of these and a bright led light will be a big help.