I’ve rebuilt this 1909 Hampden 16s pocket watch. New balance, Balance lower jewel replaced, cleaned & oiled.
The amplitude is only at 150, yet this thing runs 880 sd fast.
The hairspring is not magnetized and there are no coils rubbing or sticking together.
The gear train operates great. (checked with no balance and pallet fork). Pallet fork works free too.
I’ve added timing washers to the mean time balance screws, and that’s helped, but there’s no more thread left to add more washers…

Hampden Watch co. 16S 257559 running fast. Help

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.

Hi guys, I hope this is the right place to ask this and everything. I’ve casually asked in other threads where it’s come up and never got much of an answer… Just that it can be as expensive or as affordable as you want it to be.

The other thing I wonder about though, is how difficult it is to learn. I’m pretty much of a watch newbie as far as anything remotely serious, just have had a very casual love of watches for a long time. I am generally very mechanically inclined though, I…

How difficult is it to learn to mod watches?

This was a working but very sloppy NH35 movement I decided to service. I actually thought things went well for the most part, but I’m getting odd readings. The picture with 0.8 BE was a bit before the second pic. When I first put the movement in the timegragher, it rear +175spd with a BE of 8.5.

I waited 24 hours and this is the closest I can get it. But the amplitude runs high at times, then back to normal, then as…

I serviced a movement and now getting odd readings…

Hello forum, good evening.

CONTEXT: I live in Europe, more precisely in Malta.

I work in the igaming industries and I’m done with it. Two months ago I decided to start study watchmaking (with focus on Swiss Mechanical) as a possible future business.

Since there is nothing regards this here in Malta I had (and have) to import almost everything.

So, last month I bought the complete kit and it arrived today.

The unboxing (don’t mind…

My tools arrived!

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…

Hi all,

I was wondering whether anyone tried replacing ETA’s caller GMT movements with the true GMT C07.661 movement? There is not much info on the internet about dimensions of these new movements and whether anyone already tried swapping these, so I was wondering whether anyone here might know whether it is possible.