What kind of watches do you have?

[rb]

Like which one doesnt look right? Looking off if my ghetto phone, i'm going with the right. Balance wheel oscillation looks a bit off. Assuming they are both fully wound

Get yourself a good demagnetizer. Buy the one with a hole pass through. The cheap blue ones where you just place the watch arent as good.

As for projects, I dont have any at the moment lol. Have a ton of spare seiko parts so might do a samurai or skx build eventually so they dont go to waste.

[SkinnyPupp]

Originally Posted by rb

Like which one doesnt look right? Looking off if my ghetto phone, i'm going with the right. Balance wheel oscillation looks a bit off. Assuming they are both fully wound

Get yourself a good demagnetizer. Buy the one with a hole pass through. The cheap blue ones where you just place the watch arent as good.

As for projects, I dont have any at the moment lol. Have a ton of spare seiko parts so might do a samurai or skx build eventually so they dont go to waste.

Yeah the one on the right was so messed up, 9ms error. I took a look at it and it was barely holding onto the stud. And I don't mean the stud fell out of the arm, I mean the hairspring came right off the stud! The cheap epoxy they used failed. Remember, this is the fake Seagull (yes, they will even make fake $30 products in China to go even cheaper)

It's not even worth attempting to fix that

I can use it for the springs and screws if I lose them

Apparently the trick with those blue brick demagnetizers is to turn it on and then lift the thing you're demagnetizing SLOWLY, as high as 2 feet above it. Repeat that a few times and it works. If you just put it on there and press the button, it won't be very effective. I'll test it out when it arrives. Sounds like a pain in the ass, but I am already spending a lot on other tools, and as long as it works I can go cheap on that one for now.

Nam Hing finally opened after Chinese New Year.. On a Friday. So now I have to wait until Monday to put my order in.

Their selection is quite limited, so everything else that I needed to be high quality I ordered from Cousins UK. Very cheap shipping! I expected to have to use a drop shipper. I have a couple things coming in from Taobao and AliBaba and AliExpress. Ordered some 99% IPA from China and hope it makes it across the border

Now I just need my sister to clear out that room so I can start building the workshop!

Here's what I have coming in

From Nam Hing (local tool shop). These prices are great, and yes they are authorized dealers listed on Bergeon and Horotec's sites. Comparing prices to Esslinger:

Bergeon Bench Top Sheet ($7 instead of $25)
Rodico ($2 instead of $7)
Bergeon Pegwood
Bergeon 5X/12X Eyeloupe ($11 instead of $25)
Horotec 6 piece Screwdriver Set with aluminum stand ($50 instead of $189)
Bergeon Oiler (Red) ($2 instead of $5)
Novostar Watch Oil (using Novostar for now just to practice - it's $2 instead of $35 for Moebius 9010)

From Cousins I have tweezers (Dumont), oil (D5), movement holder and some other stuff. I wish Nam Hing sold this stuff, it would probably be $15-20 for the movement holder instead of $40, and the tweezers would probably be half the price too.

Edit: The demagnetizer arrived and I just tested it out with a screwdriver and it worked. I tried it with a movement that detects at 50 uT on my phone (I think that's below what's considered magnetized, but higher than environmental magnetism which is around 20-30) and it didn't make a difference. Maybe it needs to be beyond a certain point?

[SkinnyPupp]

Rolex shuts down the Carl F. Bucherer brand. They bought the company in 2023 for their extensive worldwide network of stores more than the watch brand, so I guess there was no point in keeping that going. Bucherer fans, get ready to buy a Celini err I mean 1908!



Their peripheral rotor was really fucking cool

[bcrdukes]

I must see this new 1908 in the flesh!

[rb]

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp

Edit: The demagnetizer arrived and I just tested it out with a screwdriver and it worked. I tried it with a movement that detects at 50 uT on my phone (I think that's below what's considered magnetized, but higher than environmental magnetism which is around 20-30) and it didn't make a difference. Maybe it needs to be beyond a certain point?

Oh its works, its just hit or miss in my experience lol. and yeah, Its somewhat similar to degaussing an old CRT where you move it around and away. I've saved many quartz chronographs and a few vintage automatics with the other version, whereas the blue one just didn't seem strong enough. Maybe the one i ordered was defective.

As for your tools, those are awesome prices for quality tools. Since you'll be mainly working on movements, I suggest getting a high quality hand setting press. I've bent a few handsets with those cheap spring presses

Learnt a neat trick for the seconds hand, place a tiny bit of rodico on the tip of a wooden peg to pick up a seconds hand, then align it and press gently. Far betting than picking it up with tweezers and trying to align it before pressing down on a press or tool

[68style]

I want to see the 1908 in person too... I love it, but I can't afford it... way crazy price range.

I bought the Yema equivalent (colour palette wise) when it was on clearance.

I'm curious if the 1908 is not anywhere near as blue in real life as it is in pictures though... that was true of the Yema for sure (still love it though).

[SkinnyPupp]

New Panerai model! PAM01628



Most of the models they have been adding are tiny 40mm women's watches, but this one is a big boy at the original 47mm size. Note the matte finish of the case

The closest Rolex model to this is probably the 6152.1 from 1963, when they first modified the Rolex case with the crown guard, along with LUMINOR on the dial. This one had the Cortebert 618 movement as opposed to the version that used the Angelus 240 8 day clock movement (the ones with the seconds hand at 9)

5 years later, the Italian navy would no longer order from Rolex and Panerai. Almost everything they did after that was an homage of these beautiful Rolex watches with Panerai dials.

[Badhobz]

Im looking into getting a Tritium Watch. Some of those tritium tubes ones are beautiful
https://teddybaldassarre.com/en-ca/b...au1QbM2h8Uxxns

[SkinnyPupp]

Originally Posted by Badhobz

Im looking into getting a Tritium Watch. Some of those tritium tubes ones are beautiful
https://teddybaldassarre.com/en-ca/b...au1QbM2h8Uxxns

You just want to be carrying your Balls around all day

[Badhobz]

you know it broski

[68style]

Thanks for sending me down a rabbithole looking at Traser and Marathon watches, supposed to be cataloguing my toy collection you distractor!