Is it just me.....?

[HectorLooi]

Is it just me or do you guys get weird cases too?

This is an ETA 2658 ladies movement. Everything in this watch is tiny. The biggest screw heads, the ratchet wheel and crown wheel screws are only 1.2mm in diameter. Everything else is 0.8mm. The movement had a multitude of problems that I replaced the movement with a NOS movement from cousins.

One of the problems is the auto mechanism could only turn in one direction. I dismantled the wheels and found that one of the reverser wheels was stuck. Under the microscope, I found a white hair coiled around the shaft. I tried my best to coax it out but small bits kept breaking off.

In the end, I had to use my staking set to loosen the wheels and uncoil the culprit.

The auto mechanism is working fine now. Now I have to straighten the hairspring and check the pallet stones.

[mikepilk]

I wonder where that could have come from ?

[KarlvonKoln]

One of these days I need to make a list of all the things I've found inside watch cases.