Pocket watches
Record
- Year
- 1899
- Work done
- Hinge rebuilt, snap reset, full service
- Movement
- Key wind, 15 jewels
- On the bench
- Twelve weeks
Case work is half of pocket-watch work and most of what people are quoted for elsewhere. The hinge here had been sprung by a fall, so the lid stood a millimetre open and the movement had been breathing dust for decades.
I took the hinge down, made a new pin, closed the knuckle and set the snap so it shuts with the sound it is supposed to make. The movement itself needed only a clean and a new mainspring. The silver was cleaned, not brightened; the monogram is somebody's initials and it is nearly gone, which is the truthful state of it.
