Thank You :)

Thank You! It need a lot of practice and good tools to avoid these accidents. There are a lot of wrong trials which i did not show :)

No need to show all the wrong trials, I think I covered them all. What we need to see is the best practice. Thank you again for your excellent demonstration.

It takes a special kind of person with a love for the craft to call this exciting but I will say it was enlightening and satisfying to watch.

Thank You!

Thank You very much!

Be prepared ruining the first few ;) Practice on common pieces first!

Thanks for the advice. Well I did not totally destroy my first go at it but I did not get it to a usable condition either. I need a lot more practice still.....

Thank you! It was a failure XD

It is close to impossible to get NOS parts for these movements.

Thank You! I would say yes, almost perfect. Made a quick check in the movement and it works great. It is flat and centered.

The Patience of a saint!

Dont know, sorry. But, Vacheron 1014 is the same movement.

thanks

I dont know.

No machine for this but old watchmakers have an other method i was not dare to try. Not many hours really. Before this one i was practicing on some bigger pocket watch springs and scrap broken springs. Not expensive but no way to replace so repair is the most convenient method.

Balogh Szabolcs thanks for the explanation. I just started getting into mechanical watches and this is amazing!

True, some of them ended in the trash :)

Thank you for your honesty, only I am nearly 80 years old and have been recoiling balance springs for about 60 years. I don't use tweezers, I use two VERY small sewing needles with the tip of the eye end ground back leaving what looks like a two pronged fork then with the pointed end pushed into a piece of peg wood. These fine eye ends of the needles fit nicely between the coils of the spring with the spring sitting in the forks. It works well for recoiling and flatting the the spring. But you do have to be very calm with steady hands. Good luck. Ol

These are long forgotten techniques. It is really hard to get to know them. Thank You for sharing! I will try it for sure ;)

Balogh Szabolcs let me know how you get on, you only need a short length of needle sticking out of the peg wood, and I have a few different sizes of needles for different size balance springs, "O" and hold your breathing will doing it.😵😵😵

What an excellent technique from a master. I wouldn't have thought of it. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Nailing jelly to a ceiling is way easier

Thank You ;)

To the best of my knowledge blue is the old type carbon steel heat treated and annealed, hence the blue color. The black should be the same i think or something new material which i am not familiar with. There is also the Rolex ceramic or something like that blue hairspring. The "white" is some kind of new inox alloy. Antimagnetic and its properties are less prone to temperature change compared to the old blue. There are also some brass hairsprings in old low-end watches. Similar ones to old instrumental displays like an analogu Volt meter.

Thanks for the respond... if the end of hairspring which is connected to yellow metal plate c shape as shown in your video break off at the end, would it possible to reinstall it to that plate?

Yes it is posible to reinstall a hairspring to the collet. It is fixed in a hole with a small pin. At least on older watches. On the other hand one will need possibly a new hairspring since the broken one will be shorter, hence the watch faster. Hove not done such a repair yet.

I think that the black steel is the result of washing the balance in too rich ammonia mixture. It can (and does) blacken entire movements.

It has a bent and sharpened end.

@@szbalogh thank you for your answered

Thank You!