As you may have seen in the other thread, I’m working on Enicar AR1125 movement. It has one of its parts broken – one of the two identical breguet wheels. The broken one has its tiny pivot missing. Cousins shows that the wheel “Automatic Wheel, Enicar 1124 1489” is discontinued, but also offers in the parts list for AR1125 this mysterious part: “Automatic Pawl Winding Wheel Enicar 1165 1489”, which is available and is listed as compatible with 1124, 1125, 1145, 1165, 167 movements.
I looked…

Help! Parts Interchangeability Question.

A friend of mine asked me to see what could be done for one of his old watches – Enicar Sherpa Automatic with a whopping 33 jewels. Understandably, I was curious to see how Enicar managed to apply these jewels in the simple calendar movement AR1125. Looking under the dial revealed the first batch: 6 jewels set in the mainplate to support a driving wheel for lower ratchet wheel. In the middle of this group of jewels is a jewel post upon which the wheel is rotating. So, that’s 7 jewels…

Where to place useless jewels in a movement…

So I have this Omega 2254.50 that I purchased brand new 15-ish years ago. An Omega AD was retiring and selling his available stock at great prices. Loved the watch but it didn’t get much wrist time. I’d say, I’ve worn it maybe a total of 1-2 weeks throughout the years. It’s spotless.
I’m thinking of starting to wear it at some point in the future. Perhaps I should service is first. The lubrication is likely dry. I’m thinking of just doing a complete disassembling, cleaning, assembling and…

Thoughts on servicing an NOS watch