Adjusting a 1948 Hamilton “Dyson” 747 8/0 Wristwatch with Bad Amplitude
Moving from one house to another is always irksome, but it really hurts when you work on watches. Moving a big couch is easy; moving a dozen small watches in… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2017
(Not) Adjusting a Russian ZIM 2602 Wristwatch
The world of watch collecting is wide: no kind of watch is so odd that it doesn’t have a passionate community of people arguing about it on an Internet forum,… Read more »
Testing Barrels Before Inserting Mainsprings
Amplitude is the name of the watch-adjusting game. We need that balance wheel to swing if we hope to adjust the watch to keep good time in several positions. As… Read more »
Adjusting an Unadjusted Gruen N510 Wristwatch to 5 Positions, Part 1
Some watch companies get too much love from collectors, but a few get overlooked. I think Gruen is one of the underappreciated ones. Gruen watches have their small following of… Read more »
(Not) Adjusting an Arcadia (FEF) 16s Thin Pocket Watch
A friend asked me if I would have a look at her grandfather’s old pocket watch, which he owned long ago in Iran. Needless to say, I was curious. And… Read more »