Smiths Braille pocket watch A1866 movement. All watch parts cleaned.

Smiths Braille pocket watch A1866 movement. All watch parts cleaned.

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Time spent in the workshop today was all about cleaning the Smiths A1866 movement parts ready for reassembling.

All watch parts cleaned.

The dirty and oily parts needed plenty of cleaning, three turns in the ultrasonic cleaner plus using peg wood to clean the jewel holes etc.

All watch parts cleaned.

Now the Jewels are back there shiny ruby colour and clean. The pivots on the train wheels cleaned up ok, and the pinions look fine.

All watch parts cleaned.

 Also, the Balance and hairspring now look in good shape, along with the pallet fork.

 

All watch parts cleaned.

All the rest of the parts are nice clean, so pack up the parts for tonight in the sandwich box ready for reassembly tomorrow.  

All watch parts cleaned.

Vintage Seiko 5 wrist watch with Cal 4206B

Back to working on a mechanical watch movement today, after doing a lot of quartz watches.

Seiko 5 Automatic, 17 Jewels, Calibre 4206B 

This one is a vintage Seiko 5 Automatic, 17 Jewels, Calibre 4206B with instant calendar Day and Date setting device.

Movement disassembled and all parts cleaned and ready for reassembling.

Seiko 5 Automatic, 17 Jewels, Calibre 4206B 

At least I have the Seiko Technical sheet to guide me in reassembling the 76 parts, in 63 stages. 

Seiko 5 Automatic, 17 Jewels, Calibre 4206B Technical Guide

Model 1883 Waltham Pocket ~Watch parts cleaned

My video is made up from photographs relating to the Waltham
Pocket Watch Model 1883, Movement no: 17769273, Year of Manufacture: (1909-10).   

Movement Disassembled and Parts ultrasonic cleaned and ready
for reassembling.