Watch Repair: Expensive Staking Tool Required! Preparing to Replace the Balance Staff in a 1959 IWC

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Жыл бұрын

In this video I discuss and show my planning for replacing the balance staff in an IWC Cal 44 movement from the 1950s. This is necessary because the balance staff pivots are damaged and missing. To replace the balance staff I will need a staking tool. I also discuss the process of determining which stakes will be needed in order to buy only the stakes I will need for the repair.
Below is a link to an excellent video by Mark Lovick (Watch Repair Channel) showing exactly how to do this repair:
• Fitting a new balance ...
And here's another by Kalle Slapp (Chronoglide):
• How to replace a Balan...
And another by Ashton of Precision Horology:
• How Do You Replace A B...
Here's a link to the AliExpress Eakins microscope that I use product page (affiliate link):
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My videos are for entertainment and educational purposes only. Critical / corrective comments and links to resources including other watchmaking channels are welcome.
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@IShootWatches 11 ай бұрын

Throughout this video I refer to the punches for the staking tool as stakes. Technically they are called punches. I got the term "stakes" from stake bed trucks, which are flat beds with sockets around the edges into which one can places "stakes" or open frames to create an enclosure above the flat bed. Now that I have thought more about the term, I think that stake beds are so-called because you "stake" the frame to the sockets, not because the upright elements are actually called stakes!!! 😂 Anyway, in watch making best practice is to call the punches that are used for staking what they are: punches! Unless they are pump-pushers like on Horia jeweling tools! 😂

@user-cd3pk3cp6h Жыл бұрын

hello , you may know that already , the "holders" to keep the movement in place into the watch case , this type of holders will never be flat because they are like little "springs" to maintain a little pressure on the movement to keep it in place in the watch case . I did know that Bergeon or Star were selling directly to hobbyists. I got one bolley staking tool from the second hand market.

@IShootWatches Жыл бұрын

Yes, I do understand that the bend is because they are functioning as springs in the sense that as you tighten the screw the bent end of the tab does apply pressure to a slot in the case The problem for vintage watches bought on the secondary market is oftentimes they have been lost and replaced or replaced upside down, or a movement has been put in a case that it wasn't originally made for, so the slots in the case where the spring holders would normally meet the springs are not at the correct height relative to the movement, the holders are too flat or not flat enough, too thick, too thin, etc. And of course it's important that the movement is held perfectly in the case because the stem has to align with the crown tube (and the dial has to be at the correct depth for the hands, and the case back has to be far enough away from the rotor on an automatic movement), etc. etc. etc...Lots of fun!

@user-cd3pk3cp6h Жыл бұрын

@@IShootWatches OK i agree with that , I use to have this kind of spare parts from the secondary market , sometimes some of these little parts are flat too. It is more than a lot of fun , it is agame of skills !! . I am trying my skills on cuckoo clocks from the black forest from different period of manufacturing , some of them have a wooden structure and with variuos complications with music box and platform with dancers and of course the famous cuckoo bird. It is incrediblity difficult to coordinnate all this little world to strike , appears , play the music and make the dancers walzing. At the moment they look like woody wood peckers and cuckoo clocks ... an other great fun. Have a look on this link , it is amazing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpd4iKWk27-3p2Q.html

@tekdude3 Жыл бұрын

Did you ever check the lenth of the screw you replaced? because you said the tab wont go flat witch made me think that the screw might be the rong size or maybe it was diferent then the other one when it was made, too long?

@IShootWatches Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, it's complicated. I still have to dig back in to that one eventually.