Early Sunday morning tinkering

[johnno]

Woke up early this Sunday morning and got stuck into pulling apart my aged Smiths Empire “dollar” pocket watch. I bought an ultrasonic el-cheapo cleaner so now to clean what I can. Mind you, I have never known this pocket watch to be in working order so I don’t hold out high hopes of anything other than piecing it correctly together again.

I also pulled out the movement of a Seiko 7S26A which there is a few well pictured tutorials on.

After a few hours of being puzzled, I finally got this Hamilton movement out of this case.

[bernie weishapl]

You might surprise yourself with the dollar watch. I have 4 of them that both my grandfathers gave to me when I graduated 8th grade and high school. Anyway I took them down and a few bad words were said during the process but I did get them back together and they are all 4 working so it can be done but I will never do another one. 😆

On another note they aren’t worth anything except to me which money could never buy them.

[tmac1956]

Bernie:

Thanks for posting this… I always enjoy your approach to things.

Later,
Tom

[david pierce]

:ugeek: Tom,
You just made 1000 posts. :ugeek:
david

[tmac1956]

David:

And 999 were nothing but fluff.

Later,
Tom

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