Reviving a Seiko 6139-6005 Pogue - Part 2 - Jewel Work & Assembly! 

Thanks for the sub!

I really don’t know what to say. Thank you doesn’t seem sufficient, but thank you. Very kind words, and I really do appreciate it. Thank you for watching!

I'm glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching.

Thanks a bunch. I wish I could take credit for it, but I saw it in one of "The Seikologist" videos. Quite a handy trick indeed.

Wow, thank you!

Thank you Slim. I'm working on the next one right now. I'd hoped to be further along, but I was involved in a minor car accident this weekend. Thankfully no injuries, but my time has been spent talking with the other driver's insurance company and trying to get preparations in place to deal with all of that nonsense! It's taken time away from my bench unfortunately. I'll hopefully have the filming completed within a few days, and will begin editing. Again I really appreciate the comment, and thanks for watching.

@@WeekendWatchRepair that’s very unfortunate - hope all goes well!

@@slim2429 Thanks.

That is fantastic!

Thanks Chad.

Thanks 👍

Thank you Richard. I appreciate it very much.

Thank you Mike. I would agree with you for the most part. I do think there are circumstances when it is acceptable to do some case work. As a general rule, if the watch has any significant historical or monetary value I usually will leave the case alone, and just simply clean it. If it is a watch isn't necessarily valuable, but I just like it personally, sometimes I'll do some case work. Obviously when this occurs I do my best to keep the integrity of the case intact, paying close attention to not round the edges, etc. Thank you for your comment and for watching the video!

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate that Don. Thank you!

Thanks so much for the kind words. I really do appreciate it. I recently uploaded a video of an Sea Lion M55 Weekdater that I think turned out really well, and am currently working on the next watch which I think you'll really enjoy (especially if you liked the Pogue). I'm working hard on them and am very glad you enjoyed the videos. Thanks again.

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Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

Thanks Paul. I've noticed that as well. My techniques may not be the 'best', but it's just how I've settled in to things and it seems to work well for me. I appreciate you watching the video. Thanks again.

Thanks for the sub!

I totally agree. I wanted one for quite a while as well.

Thank you Chuck. I appreciate it. I'd highly recommend getting getting one of the 70's 6138 or 6139 chronographs. They are fantastic watches!

That’s fantastic! Those are great looking watches. I’ve got one more 6139 Blue Pogue and another 6138-0040 Bullhead still left to complete. I didn’t want to do the blue Pogue next, only because it’s basically the exact same watch with a different dial. While I’d love to have it up and running, it would be pretty redundant for viewers of the channel at this point in time. I’ll get it done sometime down the road once I’ve got some other videos posted. I’ve got really great Daini Seikosha 6206 on the bench I am filming at the moment, and then will probably do the Bullhead afterwards. Thanks for the comment, and great job on your watch!!

Great looking forward to seeing the Bullhead 👍

Thank you.

Thank you very much!

Thank you Andy. I really appreciate it.

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Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

Thanks so much! I appreciate the suggestion. I do have a Seiko Bell-Matic mechanical alarm watch in my project drawer. I haven't worked on one of those movements yet, so that one will be quite the challenge. I'll put it on the list of those to make a future video on.

Thank you for watching.

I begin with beat error, than adjust the rate afterwards. You may have to go back and make small adjustments to the beat error again during the process, but I try to get that dialed in as good as I can before adjusting the rate.

If I'm understanding you correctly, those bolts are probably rivets holding those two pieces of the oscillating weight together. I've never had that particular type come loose before, but after viewing the video footage it would appear that they might be able to be slightly tightened using a staking set. You might want to give that a shot.

I bought the jewels for the minute recording wheel & intermediate wheel as a kit from eBay - user: sunset2go: www.ebay.com/itm/195602019941?hash=item2d8ac9f665:g:fu4AAOSwuQ5jg-cr Hope this helps.

Hey Supercruze, thanks so much for your reply. Regarding the hammer return spring, I guess I'm not seeing what you're talking about. The spring is mounted correctly according to my documentation. I also just checked it against another 6139B that I had and they are the same. If you pause the video at 26:17 it shows a pretty good view of the spring installed. There is a different hammer return spring between the 6139A and 6139B movements. This one is a 6139B. The spring for the 6139A starts at the hammer and ends up around a stump on the end of the column wheel spring. I do not believe this one is installed incorrectly (I could be wrong though), it's just that it's different from the earlier 6139A hammer spring. Regarding the mainsprings, I know completely where you are coming from. I ran into the same problem trying to source mainsprings for these. I did find a solution that I'm happy to share with you though. All of the data I can find anywhere references GR2534X (from CousinsUK) for this mainspring. The problem is that although the height, width, and length are all correct, the inner coil for the barrel arbor is slightly larger than one would like and you'd have to manually close that loop a little bit to get the proper fit. I found the solution in the mainspring for an ETA 2892-2. It is the exact same dimensions as the original spring, and has a slightly smaller inner coil that fits the barrel arbor much better. This one can be found on CousinsUK with # GR25341X. Hope this helps. I really appreciate you watching the video and commenting. Thanks so much!

@@WeekendWatchRepair - Hey, thanks for the reply. Check your disassembly vid at 17.21 and look at the orientation of the hammer return spring as you disassemble and then compare it to your assembly vid at 26.17. Slightly different orientation where you hook the spring around the upper chrono bridge screw down. No worries, I have seen some movements assembled this way but I am not sure it is right. Thank you for the notes on mainsprings. I too have tried the spring for an ETA2892-2 and it will fit nicely into the barrel but I have not always gotten consistently higher amplitude numbers. It may be due to the type of braking grease I am using. Next go at it, I may try the Kluber P125 braking grease instead for a better hold in the barrel wall. Nice vid and keep up the great work.

@@Supercruze I see what you are saying. You are absolutely right. I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I did the exact same thing on the Bullhead video I just uploaded. Someone else mentioned it there too. I'm going to address both of those watches tonight or tomorrow and get those springs set correctly. They seem to be working fine as they are, but now it is bugging me that I know about it! I went back and checked my photo records on 3 other recent 6138B and 6139B watches that I've worked on, and all of those were done correctly. I don't know why I did these 2 like that, but they'll get corrected. Thanks a bunch for letting me know.

I appreciate you reaching out. Unfortunately, at this time, I am not set up to accept incoming watch shipments. For privacy reasons I am not comfortable giving out my home address, and would need to get a PO Box and a few other things put in place before I could do something like this. I hope you understand. Thank you very much though. It means a lot that you would consider me for this work.

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@@WeekendWatchRepair thanks for the info! Keep up the good work!

Not really any way to repair dial damage.

@@WeekendWatchRepair they use metalic acrylic laquer

@@user-uc8rc9vn1q I've heard that, but often times more damage is done than good. I avoid doing any dial repair, as normally those who do that are specialists, and I do not have that skill set. Best of luck to you though.

@@WeekendWatchRepair thanks thats really true , mine its just very tiny little scratche not noticeable with naked eyes until focusing deeply

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