My personal random thoughts and journies

 I had been dreading this movement for so long because it needed rebushing of BOTH escape wheel pivot holes. Started back in August 2025 htt...

 This wasn't the smartest idea I've ever had. My 1-jewel Swiss movement had an egg-shaped hole for the barrel arbour in the bridge a...

 Depthing tools are used to make sure that the distance between pivot holes is correct and is useful when either making a movement or when w...

  https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/elgin/26664950 Previous watchmarkers' marks, not really significant but always nice to s...

 First polish, then heat just enough.   First attempt; not great.     Second attempt was much better

Lower quality watches cut costs by reducing the number of jewels in a movement. A 17 jewel movement is considered fully jeweled, 15 jewels...