When you’re servicing a watch, you have two choices. Clean and reuse the old mainspring or fit a new one. In this article, I’ll explore both options and explain why I believe that replacing the mainspring is best practice. Pros […]
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What’s the cannon pinion? The cannon pinion connects the wheel train to the motion works. It’s also the post on which the minute hand is set. If the cannon pinion is too tight, setting the hands will be very difficult.
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This Hamilton watch did run, but it didn’t keep time, the amplitude was very low, and it had a power reserve of only a few hours. If you wound it, you could feel and hear the mainspring slipping, so that
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I got this watch in a batch from a collector to take a look at. Sadly, two of the four watches were too far gone but this is one of the two watches that could be saved. It’s a Cauny
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Another French watch on the workbench. This time it’s a LIP dress watch from the 1970s. The funny thing is that it doesn’t have an in-house movement. It’s not even French. It’s a DUROWE/INT 7425 with a quickset date function
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This Longines is part of my collection. It’s a 1956 watch, but it’s still in excellent condition with a little patina on the dial. The movement is the Longines 12.68Z with serial number 9.49xxxx. On April 28th, 1956, Longines sold
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