Seiko Kinetic watch repairs.

The Seiko Kinetic watch was the first watch to convert kinetic movement into electrical energy. Technically, the principle is much the same as a manual automatic watch, but instead of winding a mainspring it charges a capacitor (or Lithium ION battery).

The movement of an oscillating weight inside the watch, which moves freely in response to the movement of your wrist, will charge the capacitor. Since it’s launch in 1988, Seiko has sold in excess of eight million Kinetic watches and they have rolled the technology out with their Perpetual Calendar watches and their Chronograph range. Read more

Watch Repairs. Over Oiled Watch. ETA 2783

Mechanical watches are amazing pieces of machinery. We expect a lot from them. They are expected to be wound up every day – they are expected to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and all through the year. Most people will spend a fortune on their cars which at most may run for an average of a few hours a day (sales reps excluded). But the watch only usually get serviced when things go wrong. I mean… if it ain’t broke, why fix it huh?

Vintage Omega Repairs. Broken Mainspring.

Working on an old vintage Omega watch it was apparent that the mainspring needed to be replaced. In fact the old mainspring was not actually broken but very fatigued. It had several ‘kinks‘ in it which can affect the uniform transfer of power through the train of wheels.

The best thing was to replace the old spring with a new one. Read more

Broken Balance Staff Repair

Most modern watches will have some form of shock system for the balance. The most common found in the swiss watchmaking industry is “Incabloc” which does a very good job of absorbing shocks caused by knocks or drops.

By the way – for those who do not know, the balance is the spinning wheel which effectively allows the strength to be released from the power source (the mainspring) in a uniform manner. Thus it regulates the watch to put it in simplest terms. Read more

Servicing a Breitling Chronograph

Here we have a Breitling chronograph which was recently given for service. We like to fully strip the whole watch when servicing any watch and a chronograph is no exception. These are great watches to work on, well manufactured to an extremely high standard.

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