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What's the best way to measure small holes in watchmaking ?

I've not seen anything capable of measuring holes smaller than .125 inch.

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What's the best way to measure small holes in watchmaking ?

I've not seen anything capable of measuring holes smaller than .125 inch.

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Dust https://rkwatchservice.com/dust/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:12:56 +0000 https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/dust.5622021/ Watch Repair & Restoration Services in Northbrook & North Chicago Suburbs. Contact us for a free estimate at 224-213-7371. Learn more from our news blog.
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I am new to this watchmaking hobby, and on the re-assembly of a watch I took apart to replace the movement, I had this shiny, black metallic dial that I simply could not get clean.

No matter what I did, dust in large quantity would find its way onto the dial. To me, it seemed like a static charge was being created somehow because brushing and blowing only made things worse.

Just wondering if I'm the last one to know the solution to this or maybe I need to build a clean room, ha.

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I am new to this watchmaking hobby, and on the re-assembly of a watch I took apart to replace the movement, I had this shiny, black metallic dial that I simply could not get clean.

No matter what I did, dust in large quantity would find its way onto the dial. To me, it seemed like a static charge was being created somehow because brushing and blowing only made things worse.

Just wondering if I'm the last one to know the solution to this or maybe I need to build a clean room, ha.

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Power reserve – automatic movemnet https://rkwatchservice.com/power-reserve-automatic-movemnet/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:30:06 +0000 https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/power-reserve-automatic-movemnet.5621429/ Watch Repair & Restoration Services in Northbrook & North Chicago Suburbs. Contact us for a free estimate at 224-213-7371. Learn more from our news blog.
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Wondering potential causes of limited power reserve on an automatic movement.

Received a new Chinese NHxx movement for a build that only runs a few hours, have to set it every morning.

Has zero beat error and +- 5 sec/day.

The only thing I could guess is broken or overlubricated mainspring but being new to this hobby I'm looking for experienced opinions.

Easy enough fix for me, just gonna swap the movement and disassemble the one from the watch to learn...

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Wondering potential causes of limited power reserve on an automatic movement.

Received a new Chinese NHxx movement for a build that only runs a few hours, have to set it every morning.

Has zero beat error and +- 5 sec/day.

The only thing I could guess is broken or overlubricated mainspring but being new to this hobby I'm looking for experienced opinions.

Easy enough fix for me, just gonna swap the movement and disassemble the one from the watch to learn…

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I broke it https://rkwatchservice.com/i-broke-it/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:07:58 +0000 https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/i-broke-it.5619969/ Watch Repair & Restoration Services in Northbrook & North Chicago Suburbs. Contact us for a free estimate at 224-213-7371. Learn more from our news blog.
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I had an NHxx movement running well and being new to the hobby, I removed the balance just to practice installing a balance.

The movement refuses to run now, and I'm struggling to understand what it could be.

I didn't break anything. I removed, cleaned and lubed the cap jewels to see if that would help, No luck.

Just wondering if anything jumps out as a cause to the experienced.

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I had an NHxx movement running well and being new to the hobby, I removed the balance just to practice installing a balance.

The movement refuses to run now, and I'm struggling to understand what it could be.

I didn't break anything. I removed, cleaned and lubed the cap jewels to see if that would help, No luck.

Just wondering if anything jumps out as a cause to the experienced.

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Mainspring Sizing https://rkwatchservice.com/mainspring-sizing/ Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:21:00 +0000 https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/mainspring-sizing.5618780/ Watch Repair & Restoration Services in Northbrook & North Chicago Suburbs. Contact us for a free estimate at 224-213-7371. Learn more from our news blog.
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I found a replacement mainspring on a site with a description of:

Mainspring 0.95 x 0.115 x 380 x 10.0

I imagine thickness, width and length but what is the extra parameter ?

& I'm assuming this is in millimeters ?

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I found a replacement mainspring on a site with a description of:

Mainspring 0.95 x 0.115 x 380 x 10.0

I imagine thickness, width and length but what is the extra parameter ?

& I'm assuming this is in millimeters ?

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Mainsprings sizing https://rkwatchservice.com/mainsprings-sizing/ Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:01:56 +0000 https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/mainsprings-sizing.5618751/ Watch Repair & Restoration Services in Northbrook & North Chicago Suburbs. Contact us for a free estimate at 224-213-7371. Learn more from our news blog.
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yegnal

I found a replacement mainspring on a site with a description of:

Mainspring 0.95 x 0.115 x 380 x 10.0

I imagine thickness, width and length but what is the extra parameter ?

& I'm assuming this is in millimeters ?

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I found a replacement mainspring on a site with a description of:

Mainspring 0.95 x 0.115 x 380 x 10.0

I imagine thickness, width and length but what is the extra parameter ?

& I'm assuming this is in millimeters ?

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Watch clones https://rkwatchservice.com/watch-clones/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:48:50 +0000 https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/watch-clones.5615231/ Watch Repair & Restoration Services in Northbrook & North Chicago Suburbs. Contact us for a free estimate at 224-213-7371. Learn more from our news blog.
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Greetings !

I was on eBay, and coming across a listing from a seller with 97%+ satisfaction rating selling an inventory of over 80 Citizen Promaster Dive watches for much less than retail; I became interested but also concerned...... Concerned that t...

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Greetings !

I was on eBay, and coming across a listing from a seller with 97%+ satisfaction rating selling an inventory of over 80 Citizen Promaster Dive watches for much less than retail; I became interested but also concerned…… Concerned that the watches may be clones of some sort.

The seller is claiming they sell liquidation lots, the listing(s) appear to have all original Citizen packaging and documentation. This however is not alleviating my thinking of some sort of Chinese…

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