Well, my new 2810 just chopped through the staff! More practice needed.

There is a limit at which the side-shake will become too much. If it does, you can go down a jewel size and install that. In this case, the side-shake was acceptable and we could keep the original jewel.

If you can find a jewel that is the right dimension, please let me know!

I will keep an eye out! It certainly would be more permanent. May have to start with the hole only slightly enlarged from original pivot size. Hopefully the bushing size is not the issue, but rather the friction fit diameter. Jewel in a brass bushing? Too crazy I suppose....

@ jewels for barrel bushings don’t exist. You can’t buy stock of that size. Putting a jewel in a bushing wouldn’t solver anything.

@PrecisionHorology well, you certainty fixed it good. You have good equipment... 😊

I did it! It’s work! Thank you so much!

For steadiness of hand, the most effective means of achieving the best you can is good posture, smooth deep breathing and relaxed hands and arms. There is a tendency to hold your breath and tense up when trying to do something small and fiddly. This seriously impairs fine motor control. Set up your workspace so your posture will be good when attempting the task at hand. Sit up and take a deep breath and let it out, consciously relax your body. Make a conscious effort to stay relaxed and keep breathing deeply as you start the fiddly task. If you notice that you are tensing up or holding your breath, then consciously breathe and relax hour hands again and try to keep relaxed as you proceed. This gets easier and easier with practice, and as you gain confidence the tendency to tense up and to take shallow breaths disappears. In terms of not dropping parts when using the Jacot tool, if you put an open magazine in the vice and the Jacot tool into it against the spine of the magazine, you have a safety net to catch falling parts. Another option, which used to be fairly common practice when watchmaking is to wear an apron, and pin the bottom hem of the apron to the front edge of your workbench. The apron then becomes a safety net to catch any falling parts. Learning to use the Jacot tool well isn’t easy. It takes a lot of practice to be able to produce consistent results. Get a load of old watch wheels, both train wheels and balances. Look for bulk lots of random mixed wheels with the arbours intact and you can get them very cheaply. Start practicing on these, you will break pivots, you will produce tapered pivots and you will produce more and more well polished pivots with practice. If you want to get good at this, expect to practice regularly until it starts to come naturally and you will get a feel for it. I know some excellent watchmakers who say it can take months of practice, or more, to master the Jacot tool. You CAN do it if you put in the effort, and the improvements you get once you can polish pivots when necessary are worth the effort involved.

Me too

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With a fibreglass brush.

@@PrecisionHorology ok but no rust remover solution?

No problem 👍

This is great advice, thanks. I have been thinking about doing this and I will implement.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for letting us know.

It's one of the problems, and when it comes to watches before shock protection it can very likely be the culprit. Many watches won't run though just due to the fact that they haven't been serviced and all the old oil is gummed up.

@@PrecisionHorology Thanks you. Assuming a vintage mechanical watch is only gummed up, how long of a job is to have it cleaned by a professional ? Just trying to figure out the costs. Assuming a standard wind-up model.

@Peppermint1 entirely depends on a number of factors. The watch in question, etc. too many factors to say.

Thanks for the tip! I have actually thought about doing that. Helps to keep the watch in frame. Keep the tips coming!

Thank you, I really appreciate your feedback.

That one is a little more difficult as the bezel is internal. It sounds like the crystal and bezel setup may be assembled wrong. You'd probably have to take that to a watchmaker to sort out.

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Yeah, all Rolex and Tudor sports watches with a plexi crystal don't click so👍

You clearly didn’t watch the video very closely as I stated that I won’t be removing the dial and hands on camera. This is a customers watch and the customer deserves the best quality I can give. I mentioned that I can’t do that whilst filming, so I decided to explain it instead. My video, my rules. If all the free content that I post on KZbin isn’t up to what you consider ‘good enough’ I suggest you move on and don’t watch any more of our videos. We really don’t want you as a subscriber. You can take your negative energy and put it elsewhere. We don’t have time for it.

I can't even remember at this point, from memory it was relatively straighforward though. I never did get around to making part 2, sorry about that!

Your most welcome, happy to share the knowledge around!

I really appreciate the kind words. Thank you. That sounds like a great video idea.

Hand winding

A lot of automatic chronographs work pretty much the same way - they just slP an automatic “module” on top of a mechanism like what is pictured in the video