02-12-2022, 05:13 PM
Felt inspired to work on Timex watches again today. I haven't for a while. I only mess with old hand wind and automatic Timex and battery and hand fixes on quartz as well as strap changes. Anyway I've had a cool 1972 funky Timex I got from Poland on Etsy. It looked good condition but didn't run. I got it after waiting a month or two for it to come to Ohio. Well I looked at it someone messed with it that didn't know what they were doing. The crown was in wrong and the hour hand was upside down. Not big deals but hadn't felt like messing with until now. Got it torn down and found out someone messed with the balance wheel and the pallet fork wasn't moving to transfer power from the mainspring. The pallet fork seemed stuck even after cleaning moving the spring barrel by hand didn't free it. I took a closer look saw the avalanche was too loose but it looked ok otherwise. I loosened more and pushed the pallet fork a couple times to try and free it and it moved. Then I wiggled the balance wheel to reengage it and tightened it back down. It's currently running in a lighter fluid rinse. After it's soak it just needs oiled and assembled and we will see how she tells time. Poor old girl.
