After dropping umpteen little parts and screws and other annoying bits onto the floor (and then hunting for them with a flashlight on my hands and knees) I bought an artist's apron at Michaels and put a strip of Velcro along the bottom edge. I glued the matching Velcro piece to the bottom edge of my desktop. Now, when I sit down to do watch work, I wear the apron and attach the bottom edge Velcro to the desk Velcro. It forms a nice "pocket" the width of the desk where all the dropped pieces land instead of the floor.
That is a good idea. I do a floor sweep with a magnet and if it doesn't get picked up, I move on. When I sweep the floor with a broom I go over the sweepings with a magnet and I sometimes recover screws and other parts that have been missing.
I’m doing one now with a spring packaged like yours. I thought I could some how put it in by hand from the disk as received? No? I see you used a mainspring winder. Essentially making it a SNAP IN. Those snap ins are great.
The diameter of the spring while in disk is too big for the barrel opening. That is why I used the winder. If yours is small enough to fit into the barrel then do it that way. I replaced the mainspring on a Girard Perregaux pocket watch and the spring in the disk was small enough that I just pushed it into the barrel. Real easy that way.
Hello dear friend , I live in France and I bought a railroad version of this model which I really like . But the main spring is broken and my watchmaker cannot open the barrel where it is located . ( he is afraid of forcing it and breaking it ) Is there any special handling to follow for its opening? Thank you in advance for your help and kindness 👍
If your watch is like this one, follow the video. If not there is usually a cut out in the barrel cover to pry off the cover. Sometimes you have to the watch apart to get the barrel out.
