Repairing and Adjusting a Battered 1921 Elgin 315 12s Pocket Watch to 3 Positions
Usually I buy parts to fit a broken watch, but other times I buy broken watches to fit my supply of parts. After working on the Elgin 315 we saw… Read more »
Adjusting a Rough 1915 Illinois 12s 404 Pocket Watch to 3 Positions
My backlog of broken watches is shrinking, and next in line is this charming little pocket watch. This is an Illinois 404, a 12-size pocket watch from around 1915, according… Read more »
Dynamic Poising, 7: Adjusting an Illinois “Bunn Special” to Essentially Perfect Accuracy in 6 Positions
If a watch runs well—it is clean, free of flaws, and running with good amplitude—it can usually be adjusted to be more accurate across different positions. And then we have… Read more »
Repairing & (Not) Adjusting a 1960s Russian Poljot 2409 Wristwatch
I’m continuing my march through the watch stash to fix and adjust the many watches I’ve collected over the years and swore I’d get to some day. Today is the… Read more »
Adjusting an Oily 1892 Illinois 114 16s Pocket Watch, Part 1: Cleaning & Adjusting the Movement
When you fish for pocket watches in the murky waters of eBay, estate sales, and pawn shops, you’ll find some seriously mistreated watches. A certain kind of person, when finding… Read more »
Cleaning & Adjusting a 1960s Russian Boctok (Vostok) 2209 Wristwatch
One of my recurring New Year’s Resolutions is to stop buying crusty and broken watches to work on until I clear out the backlog of watches I already have. I… Read more »
Repairing & Adjusting a 1970s “Hulk Green” Russian Poljot 2609H Wristwatch
A New Year’s resolution that’s sure to fail is “don’t buy more broken watches on eBay until you fix the ones you have,” but I’m making a good effort and… Read more »
Cleaning a 1980s Belair Quartz Watch (ETA 956.112)
A couple posts back we saw a trio of watches I received that belonged to my late second-cousin Frank. I’m gradually repairing and cleaning these watches to get them back into… Read more »
Repairing and Cleaning a Seiko Quartz Watch (7N00-7A70) with a Cracked Mineral Glass Crystal
In the last post, we saw a trio of watches I received that belonged to my late second-cousin Frank. I thought I’d start with the Seiko, which is unlike anything… Read more »
A Trio of Passed-Down Watches to Clean and Fix
I’m often asked about which watches are “nice watches,” and I usually say that any watch someone is willing to take care of is a nice watch. I have more… Read more »