I am hoping to find mercedes style hands for the nh35 in stainless steel but not having any luck. Anyone know a potential source?
My next best bet is to machine them. I know i can electro etch them out as I have seen people do that and I have expe…
Continue readingThat said, I have a nice quartz watch that ticks almost perfectly between the minute markers all around the dial. I don’t demand perfection, but this is as bad as it can get. And as I said, it’s consistently right in the middle of the minute markers.
As I understand how the second hand is…
Correcting a quartz second hand that falls between minute markers each tick?
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.
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…
Good evening all
I’m trying to switch out the yellowed L-Shaped gasket that holds the crystal in my Speedy 125.
There is a metal inner ring with a 45deg chamfer on it that I guess I’m going to need to remove as the foot of the L gasket sits beneath it…
As I continue to tinker with regulating my own watches, I assumed that doing so would not necessarily affect the precision of the watch. That is to say, I have been adjusting the regulating level with the goal of improving accuracy, assuming the precis…
Continue readingHi guys,
I have a more or less usable version of my timing program that is ready
for initial testing, if anyone is interested.
First the goodies. Here are Windows binaries
http://ciovil.li/tg.zip
and here is the full source code
https://github.com/v…
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…
