Typical noobie

[Mightynimrod]

So I got my tools, screwdrivers, tweezers, movement holder etc and had a cheap old replica 45.5mm Omega Planet Ocean ive had for well over 12 years just sat in my drawer.

"Right, you're having it" I thought.

Took the caseback off, cheapy gold Chinese 21600bph movement inside, withdrew the stem, took off the hands, then the dial followed - I thought "im doing o.k here"

Then it all went to rat-shit 

The good thing is that this watch owes me nothing, looked o.k, ran well and is now in a million bits.

Im 100% sure that some of the date works flipped off when I took the date wheel off, doomed to the study carpet, I couldn't find anything - but that means bugger all.

My god how tiny are some of these components??

I finally dissasembled the whole watch and all of the bits are in a parts tray.

I'm getting myself a magnetic wand to sweep over the carpet then im going to sort all of the components into some sort of order and attempt to re-assemble it.

Failing that, I'll chuck a 28800 movement in and enjoy it a little longer while I attempt to sort out and rebuild the movement that's more difficult than the Da Vinci Code.

 

In fact, the more I think about it, the more it sounds like a good idea.

Anyone got any spare links for a fake Planet Ocean steel bracelet?? My wrists are slightly larger nowadays 

 

How many of us lot have done the above??