ETA 2789 regulator--no room to adjust
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Hi, I am Mauricio a Mexican living in Norway. I'm trying to get more serious about tinkering and working with watches. I always loved and got intrigued by watches and other machines. I always found myself looking into my grandfather's watches as a kid. Now I have some of my own and inherited those I used to look at and now trying to maintain them, fix them and increase my collection. I always loved the self-taught approach and trying that with watches. So after some reading, watching tutorials and restoring videos, I successfully made some small fixes and upgrades to my quartz watches (new or polishing crystals, new quartz movement replacement, ultrasonic cleaning and of course new straps 😄 ) I decided to invest more into it and progress now with mechanical watches (some from that inheritance). Have got into this forum looking for info on a movement I am working on. An old Royce (I think it was an old new stock) I got gifted by a neighbour (a former jeweller) some 20 years ago, I never actually used it since I thought it was not my style at the time, and always had some problems setting the time on it but now I am trying to fix it (seems like the clutch slips ?). Here is a picture of my progress. Looking forward to getting more active around here. Cheers
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Welcome to the forum. Can you provide photos and more details on the watch and movement. Also maybe a quick introduction of yourself to the forum here. https://www.watchrepairtalk.com/forum/23-introduce-yourself-here/
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Hello fellow members, I am a complete novice with regards to watch repairs, I have replaced a couple of movements for battery watches and I’m fairly good with intricate tasks so I’m considering attempting to replace the mainspring on a small Omega watch from around the 1960’s…. I’m not sure if this is something that would be way beyond my capabilities or whether it’s even worth attempting? I would appreciate any advice with regards to this and if there are any posts or forums etc already available on your site I would love to be directed to them…. I’ve had a quick browse but it’s a bit overwhelming for someone who is not conversant in horology and its terminology. I really need an idiot proof step by step guide if there is one available? Many thanks, N Ford
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Dial silvering is quite easy if you have a good silvering kit. I have silvered many dials and also wax filled numbers. This is what I used. Works every time with first class results https://www.hswalsh.com/product/clock-dial-silvering-kit-hs1483
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Hello All, I’m restoring an AS/ST 1686 movement. After service, the beat error is 2.0mS and I’d like to adjust it. The stud on this movement is fixed, so I’ll need to adjust the collet. I’m doing this as practice in the technique as much as anything. I’ve done it successfully before on a different movement, also with a fixed stud, but on that occasion I managed to fluke the direction I needed to turn the collet and reduced the beat error pretty much by accident. I didn’t learn how to determine in which direction the stud needs to be turned. On this current movement, the pallet fork looks pretty well centred between the banking pins to my eye, but clearly it’s not. What tips can folks give me to work out in which direction I’ll need to turn the collet once I’ve taken the balance out of the movement? I’ve read some suggestions on other forums but they left me confused rather than enlightened. Looking forward to learning what others do. With thanks, John
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