Thursday, January 2, 2014

Lonville pocket watch

Found this watch on ebay as well, sold as not running but only eleven bucks, shipped!
Photo courtesy ebay seller


















Note the overcoil balance spring and goose-neck regulator. Nice!













Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Unitas 6497

I wanted to try my hand at rebuilding the famous Unitas (ETA) 6497 movement so I found a cheap one in this Tramway pocket watch I had shipped from an ebay seller in Istanbul.


I didn't take pictures of this one because I used this wonderful resource to keep track of my progress. The cleaning, oiling and reassembly went fairly smoothly, but I made a couple mistakes re-casing the movement. Thus the flaked porcelain on the dial and cracked crystal. Ah, more lessons learned!