Followed up after getting settings ironed out on an earlier copper dial for a friend to make this dial for my Tactical Frog FXD GMT project. The movement will be a Ronda 515-24D, trial . fit for the design is complete, today I made the first laser cu…
Continue readingOmega Movement Hairspring part
Hi,
I have this movement which I believe it to be a cal 23 &s T2 and I need a hair spring for it,
does anyone please can let me know what hairspring can work in here? I am having a hard time finding a replacement hairspring or even balance comple…
Continue readingPlexiglass for Tudor ref. 7903
I’m looking to replace the plexiglass for my Tudor Oyster Royal ref. 7903. I found information that the correct reference for the plexiglass I’m looking for is Rolex 25-9. Can anyone please confirm if this information is accurate and if there is a compatible aftermarket alternative, considering that the Rolex ref. 25-9 is very hard to find and quite expensive? Thank you!
Continue readingService mark interpretation?
For reasons of purely wondering "how do I open this front opening Seiko 8306-8040" that morphed into "I should clean this case", my little exercise revealed the following service marks:
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Continue readingHelp finding Crystal
Hey guys,
Does anyone know where to find a replacement sapphire crystal for a bell and Ross br03-92 steel? Or know the exact measurements?
Im having trouble finding the size and need one that would be equivalent to the original.
Just received one tha…
Continue readingThoughts on Timex?
Lately, within the last few years I’ve been collecting Timex watches.
Continue readingWhy? I just want to hear some other thoughts on a lonely Saturday night I guess.
Lets talk. We all must know that they are mass produced for the general public and are sold by the thousands throughout the years. They are a standard of sorts. Reliable, inexpensive, trendy, fashionable, etc.
How accurate they are depends on what you need in a watch, or time keeping devise. Most people rely on a watch for daily…
Sinn U50 T SL
Sinn upgrades one of my favorite watches with an incredible lumed dial
Continue readingThe flaw of the free-sprung balance
I question the rationale behind free-sprung regulating mechanisms… A lot of people like to claim that free sprung is better because it’s less error prone, as it doesn’t have an index lever to adjust the active length of the hairspring which might accid…
Continue readingTroubleshooting Ultra Fast Watch
So I’ve got an early 40s manual wind watch with an ebauche that I suspect is a Unitas, and it has a need for speed. The sales listing said that it was making a full rotation of the seconds hand in 45 seconds, which would be hours fast per day. Naturally, I assumed it was a magnetization problem.
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Before winding the watch myself, I held the movement up to my cheapo compass and the needle immediately jumped over 40…
Basic watchmaking tips – Hand removal and installation
Hand removal and installation is a topic I’ve wanted to cover for a while, and it is a task that can often cause those new to watchmaking some difficulty. It’s also a task that can be fraught with danger to the hands and dial, so it’s one that seems simple but deserves some respect when doing the task.
Continue readingI’ll start with hand removal, and I’ll show the tools that I use. Tweezers are the first thing – all hands are handled with specific tweezers made for hands that have highly polished…