Great job Mitka – out of interest, in the re-cased movement photo the regulator is pointing fully ‘retarded’ – did it end up more in the middle once you’d regulated it? If not, would there be a reason for this?
I could add weight to the balance wheel screws and slow it down and then poise the balance, so you can have the regulator in the middle, but that would take a lot of time, effort and is very risky (and I would charge extra). So much better to adjust the speed with the regulator;)
Interesting, I guess in many instances with vintage watches you are reversing other previous watchmakers’ ‘tweaks’ and bodges that have happened along the way.
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Great job Mitka – out of interest, in the re-cased movement photo the regulator is pointing fully ‘retarded’ – did it end up more in the middle once you’d regulated it? If not, would there be a reason for this?
I could add weight to the balance wheel screws and slow it down and then poise the balance, so you can have the regulator in the middle, but that would take a lot of time, effort and is very risky (and I would charge extra). So much better to adjust the speed with the regulator;)
Interesting, I guess in many instances with vintage watches you are reversing other previous watchmakers’ ‘tweaks’ and bodges that have happened along the way.