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Gruen 25 Year Service Watch Restored

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This restoration is on a Gruen Precision autowind watch from the 1960s. Take a seat and watch me bring this watch back to life after years of sitting in a drawer. A challenge from start to finish in my beginning journey into watch making. I hope you enjoy this video and hopeful get something from it. Movement is a Durowe 570.

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5 сен 2024

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@AndrewSmith-zi8wf Год назад

Really enjoyed watching the video, Im a hobbyist like you,I’m on to my 34th watch. I’d advised getting a casing cushion and to keep stripping the movement down and rebuilding it. This I found helps with dexterity with the tweezers and your understanding will develop over the movement. Use one dip to clean jewels and the pellet fork. Rodico is another essential and is cheap, I use it for everything. Good luck for your future watches. P.s. get a magnet it can really help with finding missing springs and screws. Just keep it well away from your screwdrivers.

@robertjordan7323 Год назад

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it. The funny thing is I started this because my 5 yr old mechanical Bulova stopped and I pulled my Father's watches out of the drawer and wanted to use them. Now it's becoming an interesting hobby. Hopefully I can start collecting tools.

@daviddillman3301 Год назад

As for the setting bridge and spring almost all movement makers had a one-of-a-kind setting bridge in order to clear any copy right issues. Part suppliers like Best Fit have pictures in their catalogs that has a drawing or picture of each bridge. This movement is mostly the same as a Durowe 570 as a 11 1/2 ligne and the picture shows there is a spring that is missing/broken on the bridge. Somewhere I don't recall at the moment there are free downloadable copies of the catalog.

@robertjordan7323 Год назад

Thanks for the info David.

@daviddillman3301 Год назад

No problem if you need any pictures of it I can see if I have anything else

@robertjordan7323 Год назад

@@daviddillman3301 you're right. I found photos of the Durowe 570 on the Ranfft website. That spring on the dial side is definitely broken.

@ronkeim8315 Год назад

Also, did you remove the main spring to check it out and clean and grease it?

@robertjordan7323 Год назад

Hello Ron, thanks for watching and asking. I opened the main spring barrel to see if the spring was not broken. However, because this is my beginning to watch repair I don't have a main spring winder so I left the spring alone and replaced the lid back on. Also, I did oil the jewels including the balance jewel. The hardest was getting the balance jewel cap off with out loosing it.

@ronkeim8315 Год назад

Did you oil/grease any of the parts?

@robertjordan7323 Год назад

Hello Ron, yes I greased and oiled all the parts. Sorry I didn't show that in this video.