ETA 1080 "cap jewels" oiling help needed
These jewels are from my very first ETA movement that I'm servicing (cal. 1080), and none of the movements I've been working on so far (Vostoks, Poljots, and a Unitas 6498) has had jewels like these. My question is simply how to oil them? They do look a lot like cap jewels and maybe that's what they are called? If I were to guess I would say that they should be oiled the same way that spring cap jewels are oiled, but I'd really like to know for sure. And, while I'm at it, what's the purpose of t
So, more than a year later I bought this "golden tool" and used it on a couple of diafix cap jewels (Orient movement). I first considered using my Bergeon 1A auto oiler. However, the jewel hole for the escape wheel pivot was too small for the auto oiler, so then I remembered your post.
As I didn’t know how much oil to apply, I used my smallest oiler and placed the drop right on the jewel hole (concave side, of course, as the other side has the cap jewel). I then poked the oil down to the ca
