I’m told someone attempted to repair this watch in the '50s. It came to me in pieces. It’s 99% all there, but there’s some serious problems.
The first photo shows the base plate where the balance cock sits. It has been aggressively filed down through the nickel finish and well into the brass. The surface is smooth but it’s taken down quite a lot. You can see the step at the edge of the area, up to where the normal finish is. I guess someone thought they could do this to make the broken balance work. There is no way to repair that damage. It’s simply impossible to put removed metal back. The balance cock will never sit at exactly the right height again.
The third photo shows the underside (dial side) of the base plate. It looks like the balance jewel has been ripped out through the top - the wrong side. The lip the jewel sits on is mutilated and destroyed.
The next photo below shows the broken off pivot on the balance. This is no doubt the watch’s original problem and by itself would not have been a problem to fix.
What we’re going to do here is build up a “new” movement using as much of the original as possible, which will be a lot. It’s wasn’t in bad shape to start with, aside from the original broken balance staff.
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