Here's is a grade 320 Elgin, 0 size, 7 jewels, made about 1912.
This movement's main problem was that the hairspring kinked and bent in the regulator pins. Here's a before and after of my first pass at fixing that. After this I put the assembly in the watch and made several more adjustments.
These old springs are soft and touchy. They'll kink if you breath on them. Making corrections is a delicate process, one tiny move at a time.
This is the initial pass at the repair.
Running nicely...
Follow the album for this project here:
This movement's main problem was that the hairspring kinked and bent in the regulator pins. Here's a before and after of my first pass at fixing that. After this I put the assembly in the watch and made several more adjustments.
These old springs are soft and touchy. They'll kink if you breath on them. Making corrections is a delicate process, one tiny move at a time.
This is the initial pass at the repair.
Running nicely...
Follow the album for this project here:





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