![]() ![]() ![]() I have cleaned up the very rusty pull-out piece as well as I could, but I don’t want to take off too much material. I turn the movement around and put the winding and setting gear in. They will disappear once the movement is properly cased. The random dots that appear come from the movement being in the movement holder, which is put into the timegrapher, so there are some additional vibrations. As I have wound the watch beforehand, the balance starts to swing immediately. I drop the balance and put the cock into place. I oil the top jewel before putting the balance back on the cock. The balance wheel with the hairspring and the balance cock are cleaned separately to avoid damage to the hairspring. The wheel bridge is screwed into place, and the pallet fork and pallet bridge are mounted. ![]() Now I put the wheels of the gear train in, ready to put the wheel bridge in. The barrel and barrel bridge are mounted. The new mainspring goes into the barrel and is lubricated. Then the parts go into cleaning fluid, then the rinse, and then they are dried.Įverything lined up and ready for reassembly. Now I’ve got a new mainspring and back gasket for Constantine’s Seamaster, I can put the watch back together again.Īs usual, I start by pegging out all the jewel holes and manually cleaning the parts to get rid of all the baked-in dirt. ![]()
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