I really dislike working on Japanese movements. Also don't like working on pin-levers.
Run of the mill AS movements are boring. Vintage chronograph movements (Venus, Landeron, etc) are great to work on. Love vintage Omega movements, except cal 101…
Cost of servicing Blancpain watches
Trying to figure out cost of ownership of Blancpain watches. Does anyone have experience with their post-warranty service? Complications: date and moonphase. Automatic. Villeret collection. Thanks!
Continue readingInteresting Article About Chronometer Trials
When Accuracy Mattered – Part III: T…
Continue readingMainspring for Omega Cal 550
Cousins UK lists 4 mainsprings for Cal. 550. Which one is the best for this movement and why?
Continue readingBefore the door slams shut…
Question for US-based hobbyists and watchmakers. Anything that you are ordering from Cousins or any other foreign suppliers before the De Minimus exemption goes away at the end of this month?
I've expedited ordering some stuff that was sitting in…
Continue readingGenuine Horia vs. Chinese copy – side by side review
This subject was covered to some degree here and in other sources. I figured that adding my impressions wouldn’t hurt.
Continue readingI own complete standard vintage Seitz (pre-Bergeon) set and a genuine Horia jeweling tool. Horia is 4mm both ends, so I can use the anvils and the pump pushers from the vintage Seitz set.
For the sake of science—and taking advantage of Amazon Prime Days—I picked up an obscenely cheap Chinese copy of the Horia tool, complete with an expanded 48-piece set of pump…
Favorite Hand Levers for Chronograph Work
Which brand and size of hand levers do you prefer for removing chronograph hands?
If I recall correctly, @Archer uses the VOH 1.6mm and 2.5mm levers, but it seems these have unfortunately been discontinued.
My goal is to use the best possible tool fo…
Continue readingHelp! Parts Interchangeability Question.
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…
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Where to place useless jewels in a movement…
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…
Continue readingHairspring Vibrating
This is something that is considered anachronistic. But not at Montblanc owned Minerva manufacture. They still manufacture and vibrate hairsprings there. I was lucky to visit the manufacture and the workshop exactly one year ago.
Here is the picture o…
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