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SkinnyPupp · 02-24-2025, 09:48 PM

Oh man I was about to have my best rebuild today.. Last time I practiced oiling the escape wheel, and while I didn't do a perfect job, it improved the amplitude tremendously.

Today I did a much better job of that, and oiling the rest, I even cleaned the pallet stones, going for the best timings possible. And all I had to do was deal with those shock settings again

Apparently these fake Incabloc springs come out very easily, so you're not really supposed to hinge them up like I do in the photo above. The smallest twist (like 0.1mm) will cause them to fall out.

So it happened again, and while I was trying to get it back in, ping! Off it went, nowhere to be found.

No problem, I have a spare. Ping! It's gone too. Dammit

So I ordered another one of these movements (for 150 RMB on Taobao, about $20 USD. Much cheaper than AliExpress where they are at least $30) and I'll try to be even more careful with this one.

If I can get it to run perfectly, I am putting it in my watch to be used full time, and the one in my watch will become my practice movement.

I also ordered a clone of the ETA 2824-2, the workhorse movement I think I wrote about a while ago. A version of it's in pretty much every "Swiss made" watch you know of that is between maybe $1000 and $5000.

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SkinnyPupp Hacked RS to become a mod Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Hong Kong Posts: 55,065 Thanked 25,874 Times in 9,093 Posts Failed 1,573 Times in 719 Posts Member's Picture Albums	Oh man I was about to have my best rebuild today.. Last time I practiced oiling the escape wheel, and while I didn't do a perfect job, it improved the amplitude tremendously. Today I did a much better job of that, and oiling the rest, I even cleaned the pallet stones, going for the best timings possible. And all I had to do was deal with those shock settings again Apparently these fake Incabloc springs come out very easily, so you're not really supposed to hinge them up like I do in the photo above. The smallest twist (like 0.1mm) will cause them to fall out. So it happened again, and while I was trying to get it back in, ping! Off it went, nowhere to be found. No problem, I have a spare. Ping! It's gone too. Dammit So I ordered another one of these movements (for 150 RMB on Taobao, about $20 USD. Much cheaper than AliExpress where they are at least $30) and I'll try to be even more careful with this one. If I can get it to run perfectly, I am putting it in my watch to be used full time, and the one in my watch will become my practice movement. I also ordered a clone of the ETA 2824-2, the workhorse movement I think I wrote about a while ago. A version of it's in pretty much every "Swiss made" watch you know of that is between maybe $1000 and $5000.