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<blockquote data-quote="thor447" data-source="post: 3898942" data-attributes="member: 24867"><p>Post 2</p><p></p><p>Additional photos of rear side of watch during disassembly.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319370[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319371[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>As I went through the watch I found a few missing parts. Specifics are detailed within the photos below:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319372[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319373[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319374[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319375[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Shown below is the watch fully disassembled. This picture was taken after cleaning, and I had already assembled the mainspring barrel, spring, and arbor assembly, so unfortunately I do not have the cool photo showing the mainspring curling around all of the other parts! While I was sourcing the missing parts, I began working on the case and crystal. I had already cleaned and polished the case, restored the crystal, and reassembled them before this photo was taken. I'm kicking myself now for not getting the full picture of everything taken apart before any repair/restoration work had begun.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319376[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The case was in pretty decent shape and it didn't take much to bring it back to life. The crystal, while it looked good on eBay, and appears to be good in the first photo of this thread, actually had tons of smaller scratches and scuff marks on it. It took a good 45 minutes of hand polishing with 0.5 micron diamond lapping paste to get it back to looking good. In the final photos you'll see that this crystal is faceted. Oddly, and thankfully, the facets on this one are on the underside of the crystal, and needed only a tiny bit of work. All of the elbow grease was applied to the top side of the crystal, which is flat and made for much easier work.</p><p></p><p>I was luckily able to find a good condition donor movement that I could pull all of the needed parts from (aside from the missing seconds hand which I had in stock). Here are the missing parts I scavenged from the donor:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]319377[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>More continued on follow up post (3).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thor447, post: 3898942, member: 24867"] Post 2 Additional photos of rear side of watch during disassembly. [ATTACH type="full" alt="10 - Automaic Works Assembly.JPG"]319370[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="11 - Wheel Train.JPG"]319371[/ATTACH] As I went through the watch I found a few missing parts. Specifics are detailed within the photos below: [ATTACH type="full" alt="12 - Broken Setting Lever Spring.jpg"]319372[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="13 - Missing Retaining Clip.jpg"]319373[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="14 - Missing Date Wheel Arm & Spring.jpg"]319374[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="15 - Worn 4th Wheel Pivot.jpg"]319375[/ATTACH] Shown below is the watch fully disassembled. This picture was taken after cleaning, and I had already assembled the mainspring barrel, spring, and arbor assembly, so unfortunately I do not have the cool photo showing the mainspring curling around all of the other parts! While I was sourcing the missing parts, I began working on the case and crystal. I had already cleaned and polished the case, restored the crystal, and reassembled them before this photo was taken. I'm kicking myself now for not getting the full picture of everything taken apart before any repair/restoration work had begun. [ATTACH type="full" alt="16.jpg"]319376[/ATTACH] The case was in pretty decent shape and it didn't take much to bring it back to life. The crystal, while it looked good on eBay, and appears to be good in the first photo of this thread, actually had tons of smaller scratches and scuff marks on it. It took a good 45 minutes of hand polishing with 0.5 micron diamond lapping paste to get it back to looking good. In the final photos you'll see that this crystal is faceted. Oddly, and thankfully, the facets on this one are on the underside of the crystal, and needed only a tiny bit of work. All of the elbow grease was applied to the top side of the crystal, which is flat and made for much easier work. I was luckily able to find a good condition donor movement that I could pull all of the needed parts from (aside from the missing seconds hand which I had in stock). Here are the missing parts I scavenged from the donor: [ATTACH type="full" alt="17 - Missing Parts.jpg"]319377[/ATTACH] More continued on follow up post (3). [/QUOTE]
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