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Watchmaking, Restoration of movement M. Großmann 3955

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Uploaded by on Aug 25, 2011

Restoration, Part 1, Restaurierung, Teil 1

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  • Nice work! Your movement was rusty but it looks like someone put rust converter (phosphoric acid) on it. All the polished steel work turns grey although it can be re-polished unless it is pitted by the rust. You can see the acid also affected the silvering on the plates.

  • @RollaArtis

    It seems like you mentioned, but who would do such a crazy act?

    Cheers Steffen

  • @spahlow There are many crazy people out there, especially when it comes to repairing watches!

  • @RollaArtis

    Years ago I was taught in making frosted silvering.

    I guess it was wetness. The brass subsurface was not correctly prepared.

    In addition somebody worked on it and tried an overhaul.

    A story we cannot find out.

    Cheers Steffen

  • A little dry diamond powder for each leave or for all leaves?

  • @loricastro

    Like you need, also you have to take more than one toothpick.

    Cheers Steffen

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  • Yes, I used a toothpick, at the top I added little diamond powder 0-2, dry and only a little. After a while I repeated adding powder aso. The result was very satisfactory.

    Cheers Steffen

  • Mr. Spahlow, at 3:59, it seems to me that you are using a toothpick to polishing the leaves of the pinion. Is this correct? Are you using some kind of polishing paste or powder in the toothpick?

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