crystalcranium

The only way to accurately adjust beat rate is with an analyzer. If this is a 21,000bph movement, you can see how far off even a minor tweaking of the lever would make the rate from ideal. Yes, adjusting this will cause your watch to run faster or slower, but it is doing so by changing the mechanical relationships within the watch. It can cause all kinds of problems like changing how and at what angles the palet stones interact with the escapement etc.... BTW, made all the same mistakes on the learning curve!!!

Because you reserved a spot in his work schedule, you didn't send the work to him in the aloted time space inconviencing him and others who might have taken that space, and you didn't let him know. Is that a clear enough explaination???? His work time is strictly scheduled and you seem to think it's casually scheduled. You are rude, self centered and have a massive entitlement...or...you are extraordinarily stupid and dumb witted. Is that a clear enough explaination???

I would keep the movement to play with, perhaps learn a thing or two if you are interested in movements, but even movement swapping involves a considerable skill set, pulling and re-attaching hands, dial mounting etc... Some of these actions require special tools. The movement looks like one of the Chinese DG movements you can get on Cousins or Ofrei's websites for around $7-$10 but I'm not sure exactly which one it is specifically. Most of these will accomidate dial mounting feet in ETA configuration. You will not be able to mount these hands on any other movement without considerable effort and modification. There are some great articles over on TZ about the basics of mechanical watch movements and what affects timing and regulation. They are well worth a read before you go messing with a new movement. Don't have the computer skill set to edit your pic but look at the balance wheel assembly. There are two levers attached to it. One of them has two small dots on it. That's your adjuster. Which way to move it.....that varies from movement to movement. The other affects beat rate. Don't touch that one without a Vibrograph handy to reset it.

Bad news...you probably broke the watch. First of all, shame on you for messing with a Chinese POS movement that was running 2-3 sec/day off in the hopes of getting it to run better. I wouldn't mess with my Genuine Omega if it was running this well. Second, adjustments for this movement are done by moving the lever with two dots attached to the balance wheel assembly. Sorry. I dont know what that screw movement did. Adjustments to oscillations are done by micro adjustments to the balance spring on the balance wheel. That screw is half way accross the movement from the adjuster.

Ebel BTR 1911 GMT...put it in google or ebay.... Nicely reviewed, manufacture caliber....not too crazy about the rubber crown details on the chrono but the watch is getting lots of attention.

Can you please edit your post and delete the link!!! Have you been in a hole the last week??????

Yeah I think in the same thread I advised that Ziggy had given him a break because of a language barrier issue dispite intutively sensing his entitlement and rudeness. A-hole personalities transcent language difficulties. This guy is a class "A" act. No explaination necessary for the flaming!

I really don't understand what you are describing. If you messed with the cap jewels on the balance staff, you might have damaged them and that might account for the wheel not oscillating properly.

What kind of movement??? Moved the screw forward a millimeter???? Doesn't sound like an ETA regulator adjustment. Not to put you down, but what sounds like a bit of watch movement nomenclature naievite (that "rotating wheel" is the oscillating balance wheel) makes me a little concerned about exactly what screw you did adjust or what you might have accidently done once you opened the back. Some pics might be helpful and certainly a movement caliber would let us know what you are dealing with.

looks like it's perfectclones88.com now. He's on the run!!!!!!

Give it the weekend. These sites periodically go down because of unpaid server bills or routine maintainence. I doubt it means Josh has been picked up by Interpol and is being questioned under a bare bulb.

Keep a close eye on the bezel/bracelet/caseback screws. They apparently fall out at a rate of about 25%. If you can modify a tool to make sure they are seated well, it would be worth it. Nothing detracts from the smile of your beautiful new replica like a missing front tooth!!

The crow's nest, wine bottles, shoes, even Ballard's memorial plaque left in 1985 have all been lifted along with thousands of other "artifacts". I guess it's inevitable. The pyramids were picked clean over the centuries. Hell they're even selling Twin Towers Memorial coins made with metal recovered from ground zero. IMO, if they wanted to make a Titanic memorial timepiece, they could have paid a tribute without smelting parts of the ship dragged up after 95 years.

Ah...... no, I come from a long line of pizza dough tossers and gun weilding Sicillian debt collectors. My Grandfather did get seasick on his nephew's boat once off Atlantic City and threw up over the side.

Just make sure they're babes through and through. Never can tell in Thailand where gender can be found along a continuium!!!!

Your logic is dizzying

You'd find a replica in bad taste but a watch that used scavanged steel from the ship's resting site on the ocean floor a facinating build??? Personally, I'm with the purists on this one. The raping of the gravesite is reprehensible. They should let the ship and it's occupants RIP.

Mmmmmm...not my cup of tea. As for the press release that mentions the launching of Titanic II in 2012 out of Belfast, this is all internet rumor and hearsay. Plans to rebuild everything from an exact replica, (including coal burning steam engines, a plan that went up in smoke when the proposers realized there were no coal loading facillities at major ports any more) to larger but still true to the original design intent replicas of Titanic, have been floating around the internet for years. The cost would be around half a billion dollars and, the replica vessel would be one of the smallest liners built for decades requiring a premium price from passengers to offset building costs. Lots of enthusiastic website start ups, but when the time comes to put design to paper and to get investors to commit, most of these hare brained resurrection schemes quickly fade.

I think Scarlett would look fine on your wrist.

Oh man, Le Chronographe.......My horological version of Scarlett Johansson.....new..fresh...not modern porno hot but classically beautiful...full lipped...well endowed...all woman.... Ah...excuse me....be back in a few minutes...

Call first. Say you have some replica watches with ETA movements in them and you are inquiring about work. Asian 21js might be more of a problem. Don't expect any authorized service center for any brand to work on your replicas. What about ziggyinfo.com????????

Agree. It's funny, but the importance of "adjusted to 5 positions" becomes obvious on a winder. Your watch will spend a random amount of time in 360 degree orientation on a winder with it running and stopped. The COSC chronometers I own have all done very well on a winder but the watches, replicas and gens, I have adjusted to sub 5 sec/day varience on the work bench show their true colors on a winder. It's the only way to go for the home adjuster to adjust to "on the wrist" accuracy. You become aware of the limits of accuracy and adjustability for a given timepiece when it is put through its' paces on a winder. Some just can't hack it. I had 2 Asian 7750s that I was actually able to get to under 5 sec/day variance rotating on the machine and several that wouldn't get close to this accuracy on the winder but would run very accurately dial up on the bench. That's your wall where balance wheel isomerisim meets mechanical drive train quality. As for wear and tear.....these are not automobile transmissions. You cannot compare the forces metal is subject to in a mechanical watch with the kind of forces we are familiar with in other mechanical devices. The linear loss of resistance to stress when a gear in an say a piston engine drive train is downsized to the proportions of a gear in a watch drive train is nowhere near as steeply sloped as is the linear loss in forces encountered in both drive trains..or in other words, the gear might loose its resistance to wear by a factor of 100 in being smaller but the forces it's being subjected to are 10,000 times less. Can you wear your watch out running it constantly? Yes but not in your lifetime or in your grandchildren's lifetimes. Jeweled bearings and pallet stones are virtually indestructable.

Can you post a picture of your sister? Anyone who makes $225 an hour causes me to fall in love sight unseen. I'm picturing Lindsey Lohan with a law degree.

Gemsetters on crack. Who would ever think a tourbillon would look insignificant on a watch dial?

I'm not smoking anything that's dangled from that thong!!!