watch hints & tricks

I have two pretty standard, 18 size, nickel plate, salesman's display cases that the front and back bezels fit very, very tight. It is very...

Hello all! I managed to lose the hour and minute wheels of my Matile & Mosimann 18s pocket watch. Fortunately the cannon pinion is still there!...

Today an English watch housed in its Sterling case dating to 1891, arrived in the mail. As per the usual Brit practice, the bow was affixed using...

Trying to build up my skills I thought I would strip and clean a scrap 12s Waltham that was in my spares drawer. While stripping the balance...

Another frustrating and humbling step in my journey to learn watch repair as a hobby. I picked up a couple of months ago a nice condition English...

Maybe someone will find this helpful. I have not seen it mentioned before. I found that using the tip of a black sharpie to mark roller jewel...

Hello! I discovered an 18s display case among my many boxes of parts...on one side, an Old Timer decided to allow a too-small crystal to be used,...

I have a Columbus Railroad King pocket watch. My watch repair guy did a COA on the watch. We found that pressing the crown does not release the...

I have several diles that have hairline cracks , is there a way to fade the black lines using maybe bleach of something else and not damage the...

Re: Shipper springs on Waltham, and Some Keystone-Howards Just an add on to this. There are some models (I think Bulova) that have holes in the...

Waltham Model 1857 Tips. I just got through servicing a model 1857 key-wind. It is the first that I have ever worked on. During the process, I...

Shipper springs on Waltham, and Some Keystone-Howards Despite the design being a very smooth wind/set mechanism, the use of those tiny,...

While reassembling the first '72 model that I've had apart, I struggled a bit with getting the top plate on without busting a pivot, etc. It seems...

While reassembling the first '72 model that I've had apart, I struggled a bit with getting the top plate on without busting a pivot, etc. It seems...

Okay, it isn't earth shattering, but I have always had a hard time getting winding arbors back into the barrel when replacing the mainspring. It...

I am getting beyond frustrated with a 3/4 plate elgin. I have no problem reassembling full plates, but for some reason, I only seem to get the...

Got tired of chasing a small screw around trying to start it in the balance cock to hold in the hairspring stud. Here's my trick.....I took the...

another problem...swing ring case..install the sleeve and stem...watch winds and set great!!...however case won't open....back out the...

Is the capacitor on this movment the key trouble spot?

I have a Tissot PRC 100 auto-quartz. Due to my over enthusiastic anti-clockwise (backwards) time-setting I wound the crown off the stem. The...