Watch repair

[ImageMaker]

So, not enough activity for me with photography…. I also fix/repair or ruin watches too.

Below is an Omega Pocket watch made in 1915. Taken completely apart, cleaned, oiled and adjusted Now it’s 3 seconds a day accurate. Not bad for an ‘Old Timer’

Lol

• Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
• ƒ/1.78
• 6mm
• 1/120s
• ISO 100

• Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
• ƒ/2.2
• 2mm
• 1/120s
• ISO 125

• Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
• ƒ/2.2
• 2mm
• 1/120s
• ISO 50

 

[Chuck]

So, not enough activity for me with photography…. I also fix/repair or ruin watches too.

Below is an Omega Pocket watch made in 1915. Taken completely apart, cleaned, oiled and adjusted Now it’s 3 seconds a day accurate. Not bad for an ‘Old Timer’

Lol


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Nice!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Impressive!

 

[LtDave]

wow... thats amazing.

i remember taking an old electric alarm clock apart as a kid and having no idea how it worked OR how to put it back together...

my favorite watch is an Omega Speedmaster Professional (moon-watch) with the display back so you can see the movement

 

[Terry McDaniel]

I've got a couple of pocket watches that need to be CLA'd. My dad's Masonic watch, and my granddad's railroad watch. Maybe someday.

 

[ImageMaker]

I've got a couple of pocket watches that need to be CLA'd. My dad's Masonic watch, and my granddad's railroad watch. Maybe someday.

Take good care of all of them. I’d say the railroad watch is the most valuable. Railroad watches are made to exacting standards.

 

[LtDave]

Take good care of all of them. I’d say the railroad watch is the most valuable. Railroad watches are made to exacting standards.

i have my grandfather's Hamilton 922B. my dad carried it for a while but then had it gone through at a local watchmaker's shop who at one time had the contract for the 3 railroads in the area for maintaining the watches.

my grandpa was never a trainman, but worked in the repair shops as a carpenter for 46 or 47 years. no one in the family knew for sure. my dad was a welder and then an inspector so he never 'needed' it for being on a train crew...

 

[ImageMaker]

i have my grandfather's Hamilton 922B. my dad carried it for a while but then had it gone through at a local watchmaker's shop who at one time had the contract for the 3 railroads in the area for maintaining the watches.

my grandpa was never a trainman, but worked in the repair shops as a carpenter for 46 or 47 years. no one in the family knew for sure. my dad was a welder and then an inspector so he never 'needed' it for being on a train crew...

Synthetic oils of today are far superior to the whale oils (or whatever) used so many years ago. Helps keep watches running well - longer between servicing.