DemonSlayer Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 I'm now going to put my Slevin back to get it serviced after I decased it to remove moisture out of the watch. When I unscrewed the caseback and lifted it off, this came out: Anyone know how where it goes?
nikki6 Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 Looks like a gasket that would go under the case back to ensure air tight, which it obviously didn't!
DemonSlayer Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Posted January 23, 2009 Obviously it didn't Nikki6. I really wish it did though, but the watch will soon be sorted out, and I'll also have a small mod done to it too. I thought gaskets were rubber, but this must be a different type of gasket I haven't seen. So I just place it on the circle on the caseback?
mbr1983 Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 it's indeed a gasket for the caseback.
nikki6 Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 Thats what I'm told it looks like bud, my 'eyes' and myself only really have experience of gaskets doing a runner while trying to stop oil p!ssin out of motorcycles, but from the description, thats what it sounds like to me! To be honest I would have expected rubber too, maybe this sits under the rubber? It could be where the fault has occured, if they have only put that gasket in without the rubber I wouldn't expect it to be air tight? As I say, I'm getting told a description and I'm in no way shape or form a watch fixer/maker. My skill was in bikes! lol
DemonSlayer Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Posted January 23, 2009 Thanks Nikki6 & mbr1983. I'll let you guys know if I managed to put it all together, without messing any thing up like the keyless Ah well, here goes nothing!
nikki6 Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 Good luck man, I really hope it gets working and you can show us the 'air tight'finished article!! lol You could do a review on this, you can't be the first person this has happened too? If you document the proccess, it may save some other poor guy the same grief you have had? A lesson learned and all that?
FxrAndy Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 That looks to me like the tension ring that goes between the case back and the anti magnetic cover for the movement, I did not think a slevin had an anti mag cover but it may have.
erwinner Posted January 24, 2009 Report Posted January 24, 2009 might also be the tension-ring to keep the movement in place as my watchsmith told me most of the asian movements are not secured with screws or anything else....
DemonSlayer Posted January 24, 2009 Author Report Posted January 24, 2009 Thanks for the responses. I am having a trouble positioning it on the movement properly so the case back can then close. However I'm getting the watch serviced so the watchmaker should be able to install it properly.
asiparks Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 my cousteau had that too. I agree it's to help keep the movement in place. Mine fit nicely into the caseback for re-assembly, not on the movement itself. There should also be a slender o ring sitting in a narrow channel on the case itself, approx 1/2mm out from the threads.
Nex_necO Posted January 26, 2009 Report Posted January 26, 2009 Yes, I think it is a tension-ring to keep the movement in place. I have the same on my slevin, just be very careful when putting it back together. There isn't much clearance for the rotor, so you must be precise.
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