CWR Technical Pages

Some things that can make a watch gain

Watch not properly cleaned and oiled.

Oil on hairspring.

Watch is magnetized.

Hairspring coils rubbing or sticking together.

Hairspring rubbing on balance arms.

Hairspring rubbing on balance cock.

Hairspring bent out of true.

More than one coil of hairspring between regulator pins.

Hairspring pressing against one of the regulator pins.

Regulator pins bent to close and gripping hairspring.

Regulator pushed all the way to fast.

Balance timing screws loose or missing.

Balance arms bent in.

• Wristwatch nomenclature

• Pocket watch nomenclature

• English fusee pocket watch movement cross section view

• Part search form

• Fitting Stems And Crowns

• Removing The Stem

• Popular Crown Styles

• Fitting Round Plastic Crystals

• Polishing Plastic Watch Crystals

• Fitting Odd Shaped Crystals

• Refinishing Watch Hands

• Straightening Hands

• Cleaning Watch Dials

• Cleaning, Oiling, Disassembly, And Testing

• Some Things That Can Make A Watch Gain

• Some Things That Can Make A Watch Lose

• Positional Timing Problems

• Some Erratic Operation Causes

• Quartz Movement Info And Interchangeability List (MS Word doc)

• One Of Many Methods For Making Small Parts

• Watch Movement Size Conversion Chart

• Repairing Enameled Dials

• Removing The Balance

• Mainspring And Barrel

• Jewels And Bushings

• Click And Ratchet

• Wheel Depthing

• Drawings Of Horological Tools

• Jewel Styles

• Keyless Work

• Letting Down The Mainspring

• Checking End Shake, Side Shake And Upright

• Removing The Dial

• Removing The Hands

• Removing The Motion Work

• Removing The Movement From The Case

• Transmission wheel

• Truing And Poising The Balance

• Wheels And Bridges

• Winding Parts

 ANIMATIONS

• Cutting out staff rivet

• Riveting a staff

•  Pressing hairspring onto balance

• Balance in motion

• Truing the balance in the flat

• Truing the balance in the round

• Wheel depthing

• Gears at proper depth

• How to light and set flame on Oxy/Gas torch

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