GenTLe

Ok guys, as some expert made me to notice, I had put too much oil, at the 1st re-assemble. Plus I had to wait the delivery of an incabloc top jewel that I lost as a very newbie, so the task stopped for around 2 weeks. Many many thanks to the member misiekped that sent me a couple of them for free from USA!!! Then this weekend I restarted again And when I write "restarted" I mean that I throw away all my previous job and started back from the fully unassembled movement, trying to oil it properly, this time. So, here there is my tray with all parts already cleaned and divided as from the ETA assembly/oil charts pages: Here the plate, clean and ready to start getting pieces: The stem and its 2 gears are up (note the very end of the stem appearing next to the main spring barrel insertion place): After the plate has been overturned, the incabloc bottom jewel (also disassembled, cleaned and oiled) and the keyless have been added: Up the gear train, from the left you can see the center (or 2nd) wheel, the 3rd wheel, 4th wheel (in the center of the watch, driving the seconds hand) and the escape wheel: Here with the train gear bridge assembled: And up also the winding bridge. This time I started to properly managing the art of refitting the micro-spring of the click so no curses You can also see, on the right, the pallet fork just in place with the plate pivot in its jewel: On the lower part, the pallet fork bridge has been added (a bit out of focus): Up the balance wheel (it started to move right away with that really minimum force the main spring had in it: like 1 click jump of charge... ), but still no incablock in it, since it was out to get oiled: Incabloc refitted: On a side, this is the autowinding bridge during assemble: How the plate (dial side) looks like when all the other side has been assembled: The dial train and date setting mechanisms are now up: Here again the dial train and date setting mechanisms, this time with the dial train bridge mounted: And, finally, the movement fully assembled (this 2936-2 comes with no day wheel and with the GMT function): Something I found a bit complex: hands assembly. Matching the date change, the GMT hand and the hour/min hands to make all looks fine has not been an easy thing... Finally all back in the case: After the treatment (that was triggered by messy keyless from the very 1st moment I got this watch), the keyless are now working fine (still a bit stiff, but not like at the beginning when the stem was coming out straight away from the movement and not coming back in...) and the watch is gaining around 30sec/day, but consider that the movement still has to be regulated, so I consider this a pretty good result Hope you've liked the sharing GenTLe

250? You're underestimating their price. Look in the trusted dealers side of the forum. I.e. www.torobravos2014.com

Yeah. Loved it! 9pm and I'm back here for some spare ribs

Spatzly with speck and gorgonzola, pork shin with roasted potatoes, strudel and German beer. At beer fest in Tornavento, behind Malpensa airport Ah, and my Tag cal 36.

Back to topic: all dealers get the watches from the same factories, so not really a difference... Choose your dealer and ask him to source the watch. For a watch like that I'd go with Sead (Supermirrors, no site, working only by mail and/or PM) or with Trevor (Trevor watches). PS: don't believe in "swiss" movements. That's just marketing, unless very few companies (like Noob) or movements (like Sellita)

The only really gen-like BR is the BR 03-88 that has Toro. 1) it comes with the box and documents and 2nd strap and tools to remove the strap 2) it has the real gen movement (an ETA analog-quartz) 3) it has the correct lume color (which is aqua, not green) Only 1 flaw: the 4 little screws on the dial that on the gen are black and on this are SS. But they can be fixed easily. Only 1 problem: damn expensive...

I suppose that if you've date change on the crown, then it's a modified 7750, not a 7753 that, as you already noticed, has date change with a pusher at 10. So if you put a 7753 in it, then you'll not be able to change the date...

I'd NEVER EVER trust a site copying the brand and symbols of another (trusted) dealer ( -> http://www.pf-818.com/iplogin.php )

This afternoon at "Sassi di Matera" - Unesco World Heritage since 1993, city of Matera, south Italy. People lived there since 30000+ years ago (in the caves) up to around 1960 (in the houses dag into the stone) -> http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/670

If she's a sporty woman, i'd say one of these: http://www.ttw888.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35_66&products_id=11978 http://www.ttw888.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35_66&products_id=11979 http://www.ttw888.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35_66&products_id=12088 The movement, a gen Miyota, is very reliable and solid, and the rest is very nice (again if she's sporty). If she's elegant, then look all the pages here (again I'd go for the Miyota 9105 versions, which are also a bit below 300$): http://www.ttw888.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=ladymatic&inc_subcat=0&sort=3d&page=1

No woman around... Need to have an exhaust valve somewhere

Get caught by the title... This's the last superdome I've installed

Veeeery nice one! Is it the Miyota movement one? I was looking at it for my lady too, but since I know how she cares for this object (last watch was lost in the Atlantic ocean because she forgot to take it out...) I decided to go for a gen Citizen Eco drive chrono, that also coste me less and probably it's stronger than a mechanical one

A cousin of this forum, with a different temper, also valid.

I'm more worried (for my finances) about the 11 reps in the same time !

A budget evaluation of the cost of a relume is around 80€, a full movement service is around 100€ or more, a water proof assesment is around other 35€ or so. Yes. Expensive. But the time required and the needed skills are not that easy to form and to find around. So, if you want to follow that path, those're the costs. About contacting them: SSTeel is here too, so you can directly PM him (but beware: he's accepting works only by the VIP members of the forum in order to deal with people that knows how the things go and have acceptable requests, other that it's not his main job), while KeNnY is on RWG.bz, so you can contact him from there.

It shouldn't be that difficult to do it yourself if you've a lathe and are good with the saw (or, better, have a belt one). Important is to make the thread before splitting the large part and also to create a conic bolt to insert.

Agree! Buy if he's an US man he can consider stuff with engines that we normally put into trucks [emoji6] ;P That Audi by the way isn't one of them Ciao compatriota

Of course I know

RolexMan, a quick info, please: how did you put back in shape the balance spring? Was a rotation of the spring stud enough? Tnx!

BUMP! Great post! Thanks!

KW is TD on RWG.bz

Agree with Marti Women usually go for GEN only... Too risky Cute little lady Tony

Well... This is nice! PS: 512MB adn 1GB storage on a watch... I remember my 1st PC: I spent like 1000$ to have 8MB ram and other 1500$ just to have 1GB ultrawide SCSI hard drive (plus 600$ for the Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller), and the CPU was running at 66MHz... There's so much more power in a "simple" watch...