What we see here is a mainspring barrel from a 16 size Elgin pocketwatch. The cap and the arbor have been removed. What do we have? There's a neatly folded wad of watch paper (a type of low-lint tissue paper) tucked in there just at the inside end of the mainspring where the spring hooks to the arbor.
Well this is a new one on me...
It appears that the mainspring is worn out and the watchmaker made a little paper pad to put in there that will press the end of the spring against the center so it would not relax and come unhooked. Ha! I think I'll replace the spring...
2 comments:
Quite a inventive repair, not a bodge, perhaps that was the skill level of this repair person.
Atleast it worked.And i have never seen that before either.
That is certainly a field expedient repair. It's interesting to see what goes on inside some of those vintage watch cases!
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