John had sent me in two of these wonderful single pusher chronographs watches for restoration along with a third donor watch if extra parts are required. The watches originally belonged to his friend who had sadly passed. The hope was to have the watches restored and used as a keepsake for the owners wife. These watches […]
Picked this watch up a while back and had some time to work on it today. As soon as i saw it i knew it would look good once it had been serviced and cleaned up. This watch has a 25 jewel AS 1906 automatic movement. The watch obviously needed a new crystal, wasn’t working […]
Picked this up a while ago, knew it had potential. The watch was in a bad way and the case needed (and still will need) to get its case replated however the movement is in good condition apart from the balance staff pivots have been damaged. The watch movement is a Cattin C66 (21 Jewels) […]
I was asked to take a look at this Tissot Seastar, the watch has been stopping intermittently after a new battery was replaced. The cost of a 955.112 movement is only around £20 so usually i would do a straight swap with a new one however i thought it would be a good excuse to work on […]
Ive always been a fan of WW2 watches, i like the black dial and the patina of the ageing lume. This watch wasn’t running when i got it, however as soon as i tried to wind it i knew that the mainspring was snapped. The watch needs to be polished, however this is something i […]
I am in the process of servicing and restoring this watch to new, i thought i would upload the Disassembly images for the mean time. The watch has a EB 8420 movement.
This has been my most complex watch i have endeavored to repair and service so far. Since i still am only in the early stages of watch repair i thought it would be a good idea to start on a basic chronograph to get a feel for it. Having almost complete De Carle’s wonderful complicated […]
I picked this watch up not working, upon opening the back of the watch it was obvious that the movement was all gummed up from a previous over oiling from a previous service. There was also other types of hair, fluff etc inbetween the wheel teeth and in between the balance spring. Unfortunately, I had […]
So this week i was lucky enough to take a week off work to go to a BHI seminar, the seminar was a Basic Watch Mechanical course led by the wonderful instructor John Murphy. We went through all the steps required to give a full service of a basic mechanical watch. I learnt a lot from this course […]