Our essence is and will be the vintage mechanical watch. Or non-vintage pieces, like the Omega Seamaster Co-Axial Chronometer Aqua Terra 150M, but it's a punctual one. That does not mean that from time to time we publish some iconic watch like the Omega Albatross (megaquartz). has payment gateway with secure purchase certificate, search engine, newsletter, merchandising products for sale with our image, own kits, blog, etc.Īlmost all watches that appear on are vintage mechanical movement: automatic or hand wind. Every day of the year, including holidays, we publish at least one new piece on our website. Today we sell around the world and we have consolidated clients that over time become more than customers. Online shop of vintage watches for collectorsĪfter more than 30 years collecting and exchanging watches in the different collectors and vintage watch platforms, in May 2015 we decided to create our own sales channel: įrom that moment until today we have not stopped evolving adapting to the tastes and needs of our customers. This entry was posted in Service, Swiss, Wrist Watches by Christian. The case isn’t entirely to my taste, but this is a great movement. The watch back has to be put back in with a press as the gasket needs considerable power to be put into place. I couldn’t find the original Omega gasket, but Cousins sell a generic one that is very much the same size and material. Now I press the hands on, making sure they are all parallel and don’t touch.īefore putting the auto-winder in, I put the movement into the case. The hour and minute wheel and the date wheel go in, and I’m ready to put the date ring in.ĭate wheel and plate in, next the day wheel and the dial. I’d rather have the function than the beauty ? If I would have gone for a highly-polished finish, it would have gotten too thin. I have cleaned up the very rusty pull-out piece as well as I could, but I don’t want to take off too much material. I turn the movement around and put the winding and setting gear in. They will disappear once the movement is properly cased. The random dots that appear come from the movement being in the movement holder, which is put into the timegrapher, so there are some additional vibrations. As I have wound the watch beforehand, the balance starts to swing immediately. I drop the balance and put the cock into place. I oil the top jewel before putting the balance back on the cock. The balance wheel with the hairspring and the balance cock are cleaned separately to avoid damage to the hairspring. The wheel bridge is screwed into place, and the pallet fork and pallet bridge are mounted. Now I put the wheels of the gear train in, ready to put the wheel bridge in. The barrel and barrel bridge are mounted. The new mainspring goes into the barrel and is lubricated.
Then the parts go into cleaning fluid, then the rinse, and then they are dried.Įverything lined up and ready for reassembly. Now I’ve got a new mainspring and back gasket for Constantine’s Seamaster, I can put the watch back together again.Īs usual, I start by pegging out all the jewel holes and manually cleaning the parts to get rid of all the baked-in dirt.