anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436 
|
Post by anzac1957 on Aug 23, 2013 1:25:57 GMT -8
Vintage Roamer has arrived and am quite happy with it overall..   The whole movement with dial and crystal are encased in the caseback shell..   The removal of the crown and stem had me beat, so I PM'd the good captainscarlet, Alex, and he put me on the straight and narrow with his advice.. A firm pull on the crown and the male and female sections parted allowing me to drop the movement out of the caseback..   The movement is calibre MST414 and the case is a 136414.. www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&MST_414 Will have a go at slowing the rate down to acceptable and then sometime in future get it serviced.. Perhaps down to Alex for his nicotine clean of the dial as it smells to me like stale tobacco smoke inside.. Cheers |
|
|
|
Post by Groundhog66 on Aug 23, 2013 6:15:40 GMT -8
Great looking watch, Tony. Nice case back, and the movement looks great as well.
|
|
anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436
|
Post by anzac1957 on Aug 28, 2013 2:14:36 GMT -8
Update.. Well it was running about 3 hours fast per day.. Got me thinking about magnetised watch.. Bought a cheap demagnetiser of TM.. Had a few tries to get it demagnetised.. Thought I had diagnosis wrong.. Then I looked inside the watch again and noticed that the hairspring looked 'tangled up' and it wasn't that way before.. maybe the demagnetising had done this.. Don't know for certain, but once I gently 'detangled' the hairspring it is now seems to be running as it should.. ticking sounds correct to mark one ear and it didn't before.. beat monitor graph on the Android clock tuner app on my cellphone is looking great too..
I am one happy camper..
|
|
donciccio
Is a Permanent Fixture
Posts: 6,160
|
Post by donciccio on Sept 1, 2013 16:52:30 GMT -8
Another great find Tony! If I ever make to your neck of the woods I'm going hunting with you. I only have one Roamer in my collection. 
|
|
anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436
|
Post by anzac1957 on Sept 3, 2013 19:30:02 GMT -8
OK.. so it has started running fast again, so I guess it needs more than I could do to fix it.. so off to friend who will work his magic on it... will keep you all posted..
|
|
anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436
|
Post by anzac1957 on Sept 9, 2013 19:42:18 GMT -8
The watch is now with Alex and he has started the work on it.. Here are some pics he sent me.. First two are of the dial as it was..   We had some discussion via email about whether to try cleaning it or not.. I asked Alex if he could perhaps just clean the swiss made logo writing at the bottom of the dial.. In the end it was a full dial clean after all..  Huge improvement I think.. He also sent a movement shot..  Cheers |
|
|
|
Post by Groundhog66 on Sept 10, 2013 14:22:59 GMT -8
Looking good, I'm looking forward to his diagnosis.
|
|
anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436
|
Post by anzac1957 on Sept 10, 2013 18:14:16 GMT -8
Looking good, I'm looking forward to his diagnosis. He said there were some issues with the hairspring.. |
|
donciccio
Is a Permanent Fixture
Posts: 6,160
|
Post by donciccio on Sept 10, 2013 18:15:52 GMT -8
Looking good, I'm looking forward to his diagnosis. He said there were some issues with the hairspring.. So .. do you get her running good again? |
|
anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436
|
Post by anzac1957 on Sept 10, 2013 18:29:11 GMT -8
He said there were some issues with the hairspring.. So .. do you get her running good again? That is my hope.. nothing so far to indicate otherwise.. |
|
anzac1957
Timekeeper
Time to get 'Orientated'
Posts: 436
|
Post by anzac1957 on Sept 25, 2013 0:21:26 GMT -8
Back from my friend.. Unfortunately couldn't get the timing right.. Probably the hairspring.. So will be off to a trained watchmaker.. Meantime, it is looking good..  Cheers |
|
|
|
Post by Groundhog66 on Sept 25, 2013 7:03:45 GMT -8
Bummer he couldn't get it sorted for you, but it is looking fabulous!
|
|
