More about watch repairing

Watch repairing fever hasn't gone down yet. For very long, there was no information available on what is inside Quartz watch.

I started looking into them about 20 years ago and was surprised to know that they have very few parts compared to conventional manual wound watches.

With information gateway around in the form of internet, it has become easy to find information which you need. People are using the medium to share lot of good knowledge they have acquired over years.

I came across this link where they have scanned and uploaded manuals for Citizen/Miyota watch moments. Hope you find this information useful, should you get hooked on to hobby of watch making.

Till next, take care.

Inside conventional wrist watch

Hi Friends,

Watches are very close to my heart. The hobby, which I picked due to my dear friend Anand Oak about 21 year ago, while working at WRIC.

I am talking about mechanical watches which our dad and grandfather use to wear on their wrist before Quartz watches arrived in the market. Mechanical time keeping machines are engineering marvels in my opinion. The design, the assembly, all has to be in perfect sync to keep almost perfect time. As you know, few of these time keeping machines, specially Swiss made, can cost you anywhere between few thousand to few lacks of US DOLLARS.

Well, I am a hobbies watch maker and like to see to mechanics in it tick. I have spend countless weekends in opening a watch and fixing it all again. My interest is specially in the mechanical watches. They can be divided into two categories. Manual wound and Automatic watches. The mechanical automatic watches do not have any battery to power them, but they use brilliant mechanical design to automate the task of winding the watch for us.

For long, I struggled to find good information on how to disassemble and assemble the watch. I had to rely on my memory or use some other technique to remember the order in which I disassemble a watch. Wondered if there was any authentic document by manufacturer for its technicians to the task, and finally found a place on internet, where someone as passionate as me, scanned and uploaded the document for one of the Seiko made automatic watch, on which I was working. It can be found here

The next step is to make sure, that the efforts of fella are not wasted. I have to use the document to go the next of understanding of this small mechanical wonder, we call "Watch".

Till then, take care.