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What better friday night can you have than picking a totaly unfamiliar movement apart while sipping at a nice glas of Barollo wine.
Today a new shipment of watches arrived and I got a "Nilax Digital Automatic" among the other treassures.
Usually I just throw them into a concrete wall just to see what kind of the effect it does on a seventies watch, maybe a black hole will appear who knows,  but tonigt my curiousity took over.

Dark thoughts turned up in my mind like, what better combination can one find a Swedish watch with a German movement and probably assembled in Taiwan.
So here comes some PDF:s as usuall from me describing my adventure. The first one shows the disassembly and can be found in the link below.

PUW1560D Disassembly.pdf

Just so you will be prepared, this is how it looked like at arrival...

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Enjoy and maybe I will post the Part II in anear feature..

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Back in business after some hectic weeks before my summer hollidays. Now I think the most parts I probably need has arrived and it is time to finish up this service. Well I probaly have parts for a dozen or two but better to be prepared one never know!

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So to save space on the server the whole procedure is attatched to the following PDF, just as anticipated the build wasn´t completly straight forward. 

Here is the PDF: PUW1560D_Assemble.pdf
 

Now it is off to a new adventure, a pure discorama..The  PUW 1561D.
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