Revisiting an old hobby
Hello from Scotland.
I recently re-awakened an interest from my youth in watches and clocks. Strangely the catalyst was searching for a replacement hand for a Starrett dial indicator that I picked up for pennies on ebay and which I though might be useful for leveling the bed on my 3d printer. It was missing the dial hand, which looked very like a watch second hand, so that led to a search for a suitable donor watch. Needless to say I then got distracted by the vast array of old time pieces
The companion to today's "British Rail" branded, white dialed Timex Q Gents "Watch of Today" was this similar aged 1979 Timex "Q" ladies quartz, which needed a lot of attention, due to the leaked cell it contained.
The damage seems to have been superficial, and a brief soak in contact cleaner spray seems to have woken the thing back up. I also sparingly applied a little lubrication to the pivots I could see, but I stopped short of complete disassembly. The tiny wires in these mechani