How to repair your pocket watch

Jan 10
10:05

2012

LiuJiajia

LiuJiajia

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Many people don’t know that pocket watch is a miniature and intricate machine. It is not a simple machine that works on easy principles. A multifaceted set of wheels and gears works in cycle with spring that provides the power.

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A pocket watch should be carefully balanced if you want to get accurate time updates. Inappropriate balance causes several positional errors. Such types of errors result into timing discrepancies. Most of the people buy pocket watches for keeping complete track of time and wrong time updates can create several problems for such people. There may be several critical problems with the functioning of your pocket watch but the most important problem is positional error.  However,How to repair your pocket watch  Articles it is possible to repair a pocket watch. First of all you will have to open pocket watch using suitable equipments. After opening this watch, you should remove pallet lever. Let me tell you that the pallet lever is used to control the balance wheel. Now you can deliver few gusts of air to balance wheel. These air puffs can be delivered with the help of a watch blower.

Inspect motion of balance wheel. Check that the balance wheel is moving regularly or freely. You can repeat the procedure of blowing air on balance wheel while grasping pocket watch in different positions. This will help you to clean your watch completely. In this way, there will be no more wreckage or debris in your pocket watch that can create disturbance in its accurate working. Tighten balance wheel if this does not go freely. Sometimes balance wheel rubs against underside of center wheel. Balance wheel may also simply be shaky. There may be some other types of problems that create hindrance in the correct functioning of your watch. You can check for these problems in order to resolve them in a perfect way. Normally, there is no critical problem in such types of watches and you can solve it without facing too many troubles. 

If you think that you cannot resolve any particular problem with your pocket watch then you can contact a watch repairer. The main part of a watch is its balance wheel. In most of the cases, it does not work properly. If you can balance this wheel accurately then you can resolve any kind of problem inside a pocket watch. You should also check for the loose bolts and tighten if needed. Many people cannot identify the problem inside a watch. They cannot repair their watches due to this particular problem. You should check the watch thoroughly to know about the point of disturbance. Hence, you can repair the pocket watches with a little effort.

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