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This watchmaking needs a lot of patience #shorts
If you have been bitten by the horology bug — and chances are that if you are reading this article you find yourself in this situation — one of the things that often happens is to spend your time to uncover some new “shinies” when you rummage around the attic or frequent the next flea market. And if you are like me, your mind eventually races forward, imagining that new lovely timepiece wrapped around your wrist.
But well, there are a few things to check before fantasizing too much about the catch of the day. And the first one is if the timepiece works. If it does, then you can cheer up — if given to a competent watchmaker, it is going to come back to life, almost as new.
The checklist below will help you understand what happens when you place your watch into your watchmakers’ hands for a needed watch service and cleaning — and remember, the golden rule says that this should happen every five years or so.
What happens behind the closed doors of his laboratory?
Now you have the chance to know. But first of all, let’s examine our movement.
THE BASIC ANATOMY OF A WATCH — AND THE THREE MAIN “BAD GUYS”
We can safely compare the average mechanical watch to a typical car. It has a body, and under the hood, it houses the engine — what is called “movement” in watch speak. When something happens to the movement, the watch stops — as your car would do.
So, what are the issues that happen more frequently in a watch? Let’s find out by examining the movement.
First, you have to remove the back of the watch, and then you can examine the movement. The backs are mainly of two kinds: applied by pressure or screwed in.
So, to remove the back of the watch case, you need to understand what kind of closure it is, and then, open it with the right tool. There are separate, specialized tools for that, so you need to be careful to pick the right kind.
Be careful not to scratch the case, or hurt yourself. If you are unsure, go to a jeweler, and ask him to remove the back for you.
Once the back is open and the movement exposed, three main elements cause around 80% of the problems, in regular wristwatches (that is, not chronographs and not automatics — these have many more elements that could go wrong, but we are just covering the basics).
And they are the winding stem/crown, the mainspring/barrel, and the balance wheel system.
1 — THE WINDING STEM AND CROWN
Sometimes you find watches that come without the crown, because it has fallen off in the past, and the user never bothered to install another. If this is the case, it is pretty obvious that you cannot wind the watch, nor regulate it.
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