![]() ![]() ![]() Time to put it on the timegrapher and see what I’m dealing with. To be honest though, I never did work on a skeleton 6498, so, this will be fun □ In other words, I could take this watch apart, clean it, properly adjust the jewels with my eyes closed □ Next, we took the movements apart, cleaned them, and put them back together several times a day, and for several weeks. After learning to do that properly for several weeks, we moved onto oiling the pivots. First we would start off with the center jewel until we learned to perfectly place them, then each and every other jewel in sequence. Our first task was to set the jewels properly. Although these are rather large pocket watch movements, they certainly seemed small back then. Well, in the beginning they weren’t that easy to work with. ![]() Most probably because it’s a rather large one, built like a tank and easy to work with. When the micro-mechanics course finished, we start working on movements, and we start on this particular one actually. After making the part, we had to test it on an actual movement. In other words, this part is what separates the winding mechanism from the hand setting position when you pull out the crown on your watch. For this particular movement (ETA 6497 – 6498) we had to make a setting lever jumper. Which is where we make parts, very small parts. Will start off with a micro-mechanics course. This movement regularly, but, for most watch repairers, this is where it started. Mario gave me his personal pocket watch to have it cleaned. ![]()
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