Hello from Mallorca

[RickGarfield]

Hi all, best regards form Mallorca, Spain.

I came here looking for information on how to repair an ETA 7750 and I found Lawson's wonderful job.

I am not a watchmaker, I am an electronics technician and in my free time I also play with mechanical devices.

My watch, a Fortis B42 Flieger Chronograph, had a fault in the chronograph, then the oscillating weight was blocked. I take it to the watchmaker but the repair budget is very expensive for me. As I could wind it manually I kept using it until a few days ago it was very hard and I preferred not to force it.
I have acquired several tools to treat it. I discovered that the AutomaticDeviceBridge was loose. I have restrained it and at least the automatic works again.

At the moment I will not continue to mistreat it, I want to practice with broken and simpler clocks until I acquire the necessary skill to work on it.

Kind Regards.

[Nucejoe]

Hi Rick,   Our one man band is here to salute you.             Here he is.    .

Welcome

 

[Johnnie]

Hi Rick and welcome to the happy factory

[oldhippy]

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.

[Mrrbeige]

On 4/4/2019 at 11:58 AM, RickGarfield said:

Hi all, best regards form Mallorca, Spain.

I came here looking for information on how to repair an ETA 7750 and I found Lawson's wonderful job.

I am not a watchmaker, I am an electronics technician and in my free time I also play with mechanical devices.

My watch, a Fortis B42 Flieger Chronograph, had a fault in the chronograph, then the oscillating weight was blocked. I take it to the watchmaker but the repair budget is very expensive for me. As I could wind it manually I kept using it until a few days ago it was very hard and I preferred not to force it.
I have acquired several tools to treat it. I discovered that the AutomaticDeviceBridge was loose. I have restrained it and at least the automatic works again.

At the moment I will not continue to mistreat it, I want to practice with broken and simpler clocks until I acquire the necessary skill to work on it.

Kind Regards.

Hi and welcome!

sound like a good plan!