Timelord Posted June 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 Well Gentlemen, all I can say is thank you !!! I am still trying to work on replacing that fault with the balance and bridge, but I am relieved that I have an answer. It was driving me Nuts!!! I was happy to catch up with old time family friend Luigi with his amazing skills and wisdom of his art of watchmaking. His speciality was hair springs and told me how he use to make them by hand and to time the finished product without a timing machine. He mentioned of his most challenging experience while learning his art, that his master gave him a hair spring that was twisted and made up like into a ball. His mission to pass was to get it straight, reshape it and get it working again. He had to replace it in the balance wheel and Collette and get it right with the screwed in balance weights. He then had to set it in beat getting it half way between the banking pins and got it accurate to almost chronometer level. That is BRAIN SURGERY of the trade area. Now nobody would do this as no customer or watchmaker can afford this unless you paid big$$$$$$$ for this. But it was definitely skill building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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