u/RoboticGreg

I recently rebuilt my shop, and I'm sure we have all spent time crawling on our knees, cell phone in one hand magnet it the other shining a light across the floor to try to see a part that decided to go rocketship. For the new shop, I installed a strip of lights along the bottom of that wall so I can turn off all the lights and light up the whole floor from a shallow angle. Works really well! Total cost around $25.

Just got my first poising tool and I'm pretty excited to do a weekend worth of setup and experimenting :) have a good weekend watch repair people's!

I have never seen this before. My uncle just handed me this watch and said "it doesn't run, I know you like watches see if you can fix this" I know this is a valuable watch, and I'm concerned with the balance wheel wedged between the caseback and rotor but the hair spring is still attached to the balance bridge, if I try to just open it, it might damage the watch further. It's wedged tightly enough the rotor doesn't move. I don't really know what else I would do....I guess I could try to remove the caseback crystal, but if I broke it I could spray glass shards in it. What do y'all recommend?

I'm working on a royal oak, and one of the things I'm doing is replacing this dial...but my question is how does this even happen? I just don't understand how this wear pattern occured inside a watch. Any thoughts? It's CLEARLY centered around the date window.

These are the papers offered as original for a watch sold near me. My inherent reaction to these is "they bought these papers later, crossed the number out and wrote the new one in" but the seller insists these were the original papers the AD just made a mistake and crossed it out. Is there any way to tell? The handwriting looks similar but I'm still suspicious. How would you treat these papers? Also I know the watch is a redial, I'm just asking about how you would look at these papers

Greetings! I've another interesting AP coming across my bench. I've never worked on a 2505 before so just figured I would get a sanity check in addition to my research. First:

1. Does anyone know the RIGHT way to take the stem out? I'm sure I can remove the setting lever screw and take it out but would prefer the right way.

2. Has anyone found the AP service instructions for this movement? I know they are super hard to find, but figured I would ask

3. Any advice specific to this movement?

4. Reported problem: stem does nothing anymore. No hand or date seeing with or without battery

Thanks for looking!

Basically looking for any advice, does it look usable? Anything I should worry about with this one? Does it look complete? Any noticable damage? I'm doing my best to research it as well, but there is also an element of excitement and wanting to share with y'all. This is such a great community.it was $75