Analogue Stopwatch Servicing

Analogue Stopwatch Servicing

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GC8

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19,910 posts

189 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Do any of the (three that I can think of) people who repair watches on the forum have experience of working on analogue stopwatches?

I have a box full which are all needing varying degrees of love and attention.

Variomatic

2,392 posts

160 months

Thursday 24th April 2014
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Yep, they're pretty straightforward to work on, but parts can be a problem because they were never huge volume items so didn't have the same quantity of spare produced as many wrist movements. For some reason most didn't seem to have shock protection either (always seemed odd for things that would naturally be used in "active" environments), so broken balance staffs are pretty common.