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Official Publication of the
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TIMES
EDITORIAL &EXECUTIVE OFFICES VOLUME 31, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 2007
American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute (AWCI)
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Phone: Toll Free 1-866-367-2924 or (513) 367-9800 FEATURE ARTICLES
Fax: (513) 367-1414 6 Blancpain Le Brassus, 8 Jours and Caliber 13RO
E-mail: awci@awci.com
Website: www.awci.com By Ron DeCorte
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (Esn 16 Dive Watches Take the Plunge, By Gary Crighton
Closed National Holidays
26 Repairing a Hole End Spring, By David J. Carlson
Donna K. Baas: Managing Editor, Advertising Manager
Katherine J. Ortt: Associate Editor, Layout/Design Associate
Have you made your New Year's resolutions yet? Everything you want is yours for the
asking with a lot of hard work if you set and follow your goals. We all need to improve our
skills and use our time and capital wisely.
Your Board of Directors has set a rigorous and achievable goal of making A WCI into an inter-
nationally known, financially stable and respected organization. The professionalism we seek should be our main
focus and we should not let anything deter us from our goal.
Your Board is taking a close look at our financial picture to insure the longtime future of A WCI. Our certification
programs are to insure recognition worldwide and when completely implemented will lead to the respect desired. An
important area we sometimes overlook is the great service rendered to us by our suppliers. They are there to identify
and supply parts, have the supplies and machinery available for us to do our daily tasks and sell those at a reasonable
price. Look through your old and new issues of Horological Times to see who has been there for us. We thank them
and will support them by purchasing through the Jewelry Industry Distributors Association QIDA) members who
advertise in the HT.
I thank each member for your dedication and the trust you have placed in this year's Board of Directors.
Be sure to read and fill out the Forum Committee's Survey on this month's mailing envelope of Horological Times.
We need your input now, so take a few minutes to complete and send.
If you don't do so throughout the year you should look at your pricing structure for repairs.
Make a resolution to monitor what your turndown rate is on various repairs that you quote to
customers. Many of you may know this already, but for those of you who don't ... a good rule of thumb when moni-
toring your turndown rate on repairs is 20/80. You want to set your prices so that 20% or 2 in 10 customers walk out
your door without leaving the repair because the price you quoted is too high in their opinion. I know watchmakers
and clockmakers want to be heroes and repair everything that walks through the door, even though we all know
better. Don't be a hero, be a smart businessperson. Don't be afraid to set your own supply and demand line. If your
backlog is too long using the 20/80 approach, jump it up to 30/70. You might be surprised at the results.
The "AWCI Business Survey of Members", and the "Survey Related to Charges and Hours" may also help you to
improve your bottom line for 2007. There is a lot of valuable information in these two surveys.
Take some time to clean up your shop, and get organized. Trade those shoeboxes in for proper cabinets. You will feel
much better about yourself and your business. Don't be shy about projecting a professional image through your
appearance. Invest in one new piece of equipment for your business. It could be a computer, computer upgrade,
software, or test equipment. Stay current with technology. Some day you will want to retire. A clean organized and
up-to-date business can easily be sold to supplement your retirement. A dirty, disorganized, outdated business usu-
ally ends up closing and the contents selling for pennies on the dollar, and that just isn't right when you've worked so
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January 2007 Horological Times 3
Questions & Answers
David A. Christianson,
CMW, CMEW, FAWI
Question Answer
Enclosed are the front, side, back, and top Portable clocks fitted with balances and hair-
views of a carriage/ simple repeater clock springs were produced in France in the late
that we have recently serviced. We know it 1700s. However, it was A-L Breguet and a
is quite old, but it is accurate beyond our few other famous makers who created the
expectation! design with glass sides and top between 1800
and 1820, which became the standard model
The owner is pleased, but wants to find out, for these clocks.
if possible, who manufactured this clock,
and approximately when. I personally did Most of these clocks were finished and cased
not see any identification marks or num- in Paris, with some coming from other ar-
bers in the movement or the case. eas in France. But, virtually all of the blank
movements to make these clocks came from
I hope and trust that you will help me ob- the Japy Freres factory in the Jura Region
tain an answer not only for my client, but of the Franche Comte. The platform escape-
also for me! ments came from specialist manufacturers
Clifford Ellsworth, Sun City, Arizona along the French-Swiss border.
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January 2007 Horological Times 5
Blancpain Le Brassus,
8 Jours and Caliber 13RO
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Sometimes things are not as they seem. This I'll pause for a moment to set the stage in
is especially true in the Vallee de Joux Swit- more detail so as to make the remaining parts
zerland, home of the Blancpain manufacture. of this article a bit more clearly in terms of
So it was as I headed out from my small chronology. I first met the new Blancpain
apartment in the Vallee that all seemed quiet
on that mid-August morning, calm and se-
rene with little him of change in the air.
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Figure 2
The "Le Bras sus, 8 J ours" is the first watch to use the
totally new 13RO movement, of in-house manufacture,
from Blancpain. It's the new 13RO movement that is
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the star of this article (by the way that's a zero at the
end of the movement designation). Using three bar-
rels, the 13RO achieves 8 days of power reserve and ac-
cording to Blancpain will be the movement design they
will use as a base for some Blancpain watches, with the
possible exception of the tourbillons.
used to set the jewels and the chatons then set into the
plates and bridges. Times have changed. With today's
technology it's far more accurate to make a very pre-
cise hole for the jewel directly into the plate or bridge
and then make a sink, or recess, around the jewel that
gives the impression of a chaton-set-jewel. This isn't
an easy process but makes a great impression, and more
importantly establishes greater accuracy in wheel and
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The balance wheels photographed in this article are of So here's how it all works together to provide an 8-day
two different colors: gold and gray. In both instances, power reserve for the 13RO: as the watch is wound (this
the balances are made from titanium, but in one case is a manual winding watch), the mainsprings of barrels
the titanium is plated with gold and in the other case "A" and "C" are wound in tandem since they are di-
not. Since making these movement photographs in rectly connected via their outer teeth. As barrels "A"
August, Blancpain has decided that the balance wheels and "C" gather strength together this power is trans-
will be natural titanium gray. ferred to barrel "D" that feeds the power directly to
the time train and the escapement. In a nutshell, bar-
The titanium balance wheel uses four timing (regulat- rels "A" and "C" are the power reserve that feed barrel
ing) screws to make fine timing adjustments. Given that "D", which is the stabilizer in the equation of power
titanium is incredibly light, it is the gold balance screws that is ultimately transferred to the escapement. It's
that are at the heart of timing regulation. via the external coupling of barrels "A" and "C" that
provides a consistent amount of power to barrel "D"
As for the timing screws, the head is of square shape rather so that the 13RO can maintain stable amplitude of power
than the usual slotted type. This shape facilitates easy to the escapement over the period of 8 days.
manipulation for the final timing, and also reduces the
possibility of damage via a typical screwdriver. Under the dial, the calendar mechanism is a bit unique
(Figure 9). When manually setting the date forward at
The balance spring is a Breguet-type overcoil and uses the end of certain months, wheel "A" engages with the
no regulator-in other words free sprung. date disc to move it forward. If trying to set the date in
reverse, the shape of wheel "A" disengages it from the
With the balance cock and barrel(s) bridge removed, date wheel and allows no action, or damage to the cal-
we can have a better look at how the three barrels work endar mechanism.
(Figure 8). Barrel "A" is the first barrel in the chain
and is directly connected to barrel "C" via their perim- On a day-to-day basis it is wheel "B" that makes one revo-
eter teeth. The mainsprings used in barrels "A" and "C" lution per day, and via the spring attached, moves the
are 0.09 mm thick, and importantly these mainsprings date ring one position, or one day in advance. Jumper
are not directly connected to the barrels but instead arm "C" and its tension spring "D" see to it that the cal-
use a slipping bridle the same as an automatic watch. endar disk is firmly positioned at each jump of the date.
Also connected to barrel "C" is the power reserve
mechanism "B". Barrel "C" and barrel "D" are directly For more information please visit the Blancpain web
connected via their barrel arbors by intermediate wheel site: www.blancpain.ch.
"E." Barrel "D" differs from barrels "A" and "C" in
that the mainspring is thicker, 0.10 mm, and is also di- This article is reprinted courtesy of Ron DeCorte and
rectly connected to the barrel at its outer end. TimeZone. com.
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Regula Cuckoo Movement Specifications and Retrofitting Hints
Mark Butterworth
Part 68
In Part 61 Hubert Herr cuckoo movements The Regula movement comes in both a two-
were discussed and Regula information was weight time and strike as well as a three-
promised. Regula brand cuckoo movements weight with dancer platform. If ordering the
are the major ones used by volume and are movement, it is important to know that the
used by nearly all manufacturers of finished pendulum length is measured from the sus-
cuckoo clocks with the exception of Hubert pension post to the center of the leaf or bob
Herr. It is now a part of a much larger com- on the stick. If the proper length is not
pany SBS and the actual manufacturing takes known, the back of the stick usually has a
place in the small village of Schonau only smooth part to mark the original location.
about 6 km outside of Triberg. This is also If even that is in doubt, choose the middle
the village where the Anton Schneider of the stick. If the movement has an attached
cuckoo clocks are manufactured and the platform, the manufacturer measures the
two factories are only a few blocks from one height of the platform (in mm) from the top
another. We visited the factories and the of the movement and that information be-
area in September 2006 and they are comes part of the movement number on the
indeed beautiful sights. Please see Figures one-day series. As an example, the model
1-3 showing final assembly and testing of 25/24 indicates that it is a one-day unit se-
finished clocks at the Anton Schneider ries 25 with a platform 24 mm above the top
factory. Many of these workers have spent of the movement. One major supplier, Black
their entire working lifetimes in these Forest Imports, uses the height of the plat-
factories. form (in inches) from the hand shaft in its
catalogue specifications.
Figure 1. Final
assembly of cuckoo
clocks at Anton
Schneider.
A question often asked regards a series 25 movement In addition, one manufacturer, Anton Schneider has
with a governor attached directly to the side of the the dancer unit as a separate unit from the cuckoo
movement. It also had a very low clear plastic base for movement. As a result, only a two-weight movement
a rotating dancer table. This movement was marketed need be ordered, even though the entire clock is a three-
by and stamped "Schmeckenbecker". The firm was a weight clock.
major distributor of finished clocks from the Black
Forest and is now out of business. Unfortunately that If one is going to exchange the movement, it is a rela-
unit is no longer made. tively simple procedure if one takes care to check both
Best wishes to our long time employees, Rosie and Mel, who have recently retired after
many years in the industry, both at Twin City Supply, and Jewel mont. We will miss you!
AWCI is offering a series of watchmaking classes throughout 2006 and 2007. The series will consist of
5-day sessions covering a variety of subject matter. Each 5-day block will cost $600.00; 3-day block
$360.00. For additional information, contact Education Coordinator, Nancy Wellmann
nwellmann@awci.com or call (866) 367-2924, ext. 303. Class information is also available at
www.awci.com
Or to put it more accurately, the only way to guaran- While the recommended test equipment is not cheap
tee the water resistance of dive watches with absolute and the tests themselves are time consuming, it could
certamty. be a lot more expensive if you need to replace your
customer's expensive diving watch due to water dam-
My article, "Using and Understanding Waterproof age to the dial and hands, and a movement that now
Testing Machines," appeared in the August 2001 issue looks like something that Mel Fischer found on the
of Horological Times. This follow-up article, a few years Atocha!
later than intended, deals specifically with subjecting
the watch case to a pressure test in water. This is ex- In my opinion, based on hundreds of tests and experi-
actly how it would be used in real life, so it is appropri- ments that I have done over many years, I have found
ate to subject it to a battery of tests that mirror real that it is only necessary to subject sports and divers
world conditions as closely as possible. watches that are intended for continual use and sub-
mersion in water to the following tests. For watches
that are only intended to be used occasionally in water,
a test with a good quality dry testing machine is
sufficient.
Now for those of you who run small watch repair shops, case with a dry waterproof tester prior to submersion
or don't repair that many divers watches to justify the in water so that any major problems can be picked up
expense of the aforementioned test equipment, fear not and corrected immediately.
because I have devised a set up that closely mimics the
results of the Roxer Revelator. Of course this set up is After the watch case has spent the requisite amount of
a little bit more work and takes longer, but the savings time in the pressure chamber and been subjected to
justify it; that is as long as one is not testing too many both the high- and low-pressure test, it is then removed
watches, or one might just as well go ahead and pur- from the chamber and thoroughly dried off. In order
chase the professionally made equipment. to dry it faster and more thoroughly, it is preferable to
use compressed air to blow off the excess water if pos-
As can be seen from Figure 4, I use a temperature con- sible. The watch case is then placed on the heating ele-
trolled Bergeon escapement heater. Due to the fact that ment for about 15 to 20 minutes. The thicker the case
this is just a simple rheostat controlled heater, the tem- and crystal, the longer it should be allowed to warm
perature does fluctuate slightly, even if preset to the up.
exact same number, due to fluctuations in the line volt-
age. So I use my old photographic thermometer to When the case has been warmed up sufficiently, remove
monitor the temperature of the heater (see Figure 5). the brass weight from the freezer and place it on the
For the cold element I first tried an old brass main- center of the crystal for about 45 seconds (see Figure
spring winding drum, but felt that its mass was too 6). The time can be increased to one minute if the crys-
small because it didn't remain cold for too long. So I tal is excessively thick-thicker than 3.5 rom. After
switched to a modified brass mainspring winding removing the weight give the crystal a quick wipe with
handle. Ideally any brass rod that is approximately a clean dry cloth just in case any moisture has con-
15 mm in diameter (slightly larger than a drop of wa- densed on the outside of it. The latter is especially im-
ter), 50 mm in length and has sufficient mass should portant in humid environments. Use a bright bench
suffice. If the rod is too short it will cool down too lamp and a loupe to check for condensation under the
quickly, and if it's too long it won't be stable when crystal. If there isn't any, one can then guarantee that
placed onto the watch crystal, especially a convex the watch case is 100% water resistant to its rated depth.
shaped one. Be sure to smooth the side that comes into
contact with the watch crystal so that it doesn't scratch Note that there are a few scenarios that can result in
the anti-glare coating that many of them have these condensation under the crystal even although the in-
days. tegrity of the case is 100% intact (see Figure 7). The
most common reason for this is that it hasn't been dried
It is preferable to test the watch case without the move- out sufficiently after it was washed. Especially if it is a
ment first in order to prevent water damage to the dial chronograph and was washed without removing the
and hands, and to avoid the expense of servicing the pushers as moisture can easily become trapped in those
movement again. I also highly recommend testing the tmy spaces.
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the label on a watch mainspring package. He called and ous importers repackage them under their own brand
related a situation he had with Waltham 12-size main- names for resale to the trade. If the Swiss manufac-
springs (factory ref. 2224A). These mainsprings are turer makes a measurement error in his shipment, each
available in three strengths (0.14 mm, 0.15 mm, 0.16 distributor repeats that error again when he repacks
mm) from several importers to accommodate the vary- them for resale, that is unless the distributor checks
ing grades (7-23 jewels) of the 12-size Waltham. The the accuracy of each lot of mainsprings received. Re-
strongest mainsprings (0.16 mm) are for the watches member the words from the Porgy and Bess opera, "It
with the lowest jewel count. Conversely, the weakest ain't necessarily so" whenever you read the label on a
mainspring (0.14 mm) is for those watches with the mainspring package. What is in the package may not
highest jewel count. The medium strength mainspring exactly match what is stated on the label.
(0.15) is for all others with an intermediate jewel count. Jack Kurdzionak
This seems simple enough. Read the mainspring cata- Alternative Mainsprings
log, determine the mainspring required, and select the What do you do when you cannot obtain the exact
proper mainspring for the job at hand according to the mainspring required for a watch repair? This is when,
label on the package. If all goes according to the book, in the words of Boston's most experienced material
the watch will run, and run well. That is, if the main- supplier, the late Irving Cohen, "Sometimes you have
spring in the package is the one that is supposed to be to be a watchmaker." In the case of the 12-size Waltham
in the package. Just because the label states that the mentioned above, there are alternative solutions as there
enclosed mainspring is 0.16 mm; it does not mean that are for many others. Any American watch barrel with
is what is enclosed. The watchmaker fitted the stron- a hook on the wall, and that means many Waltham
gest mainspring to a seven-jewel movement he had over- models as well as most Elgins, can use a tongue end,
hauled but the resultant balance amplitude was not suf- Swiss-style mainspring if it has the proper dimensions.
ficient. He checked and rechecked the movement find- The 12-size, seven-jewel Waltham can use a tongue end
ing no movement faults. Then he removed the main- mainspring that is 2.10 x 0.17 x 19),-1 supplied by both
spring and measured its strength with a micrometer. Bestfit and Newall. The mainspring is slightly narrower
Sure enough, it measured 0.14 mm. It was the weakest and slightly stronger than the original, but it is an ad-
mainspring for a 12-size Waltham in the wrong equate substitute. Notice that mainsprings are still sold
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require mainspring replacement or repair. The repair- corners. It is a poor repair because the hole is off
able time and strike mainsprings from a French clock center, too close to the end of the mainspring, and not
movement are shown in Figure 1. The springs were still long enough, which makes it more difficult to load and
functional but subject to failure. unload the mainspring barrel. A rounded hole is pre-
ferred because it is a better fit with the barrel hook and
The torn hole in the mainspring on the left in Figure 1 has less chance of a fault, a nick for example, which can
can happen spontaneously, but it is more often there- cause mainspring failure.
sult of heavy-handed winding or an overly large wind-
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the distance from the end of the spring too long or it 4. Two files, Figure 5, were used in shaping the hole:
will be hard to reload the spring into the barrel or too one is a tapered round file and the second is a small
short so there is not enough strength.) oval file. Square files should be avoided to prevent leav-
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Last month I produced a tool that could be Figure 16 is a general view of the gear cut-
used for topping rounded teeth. Since gear ting set up for our big watchmaker's lathe.
wheels of this type were usually made by It consists of a Sherline headstock and drive
'gashing' the tooth space and then topping, that Jerry Frietag adapted to the top slide,
the tool can be used for both repair, correc- and the vertical slide that came with the
tion or making new wheels. I intend to make machine. The set up works very well and is
a SOt wheel of 0.5 mm module to the dimen- very much more reliable than the Heath
sions shown in Figure 5. The tool has no Robinson (Rube Goldberg, in the States)
relief on the tooth form, but as we saw in arrangement of jockey pulleys and long belt
Part 4, the spaces between the cutting teeth that we had before.
have cut away most of the circumference and
there is only a narrow arc that has the full The spaces between the teeth are cut first,
form, this should be enough to ensure that this is the gashing operation (Figure 17) and
the tool does not 'drag' the metal that it is the width has been obtained by using three
cutting. circular saw blade side by side. As you can
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and centering it over the teeth. However, the blank
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Make sure that the bore for whatever mandrel you in-
tend to use is machined before the cutter is taken out
correction by file. In fact I would mount the wheel so of the chuck, the cutout can be made on a milling ma-
that the driving side was the left hand side of the tooth chine or with a hacksaw and slight inaccuracies will not
as seen in the figure. Since clock gears do not go into affect the performance of the tool, but if the bore is
reverse completely, one side of the form plays no part inaccurate the cutter will be eccentric and only cut on
in the transmission of energy but must simply clear one or two teeth, limiting the expected life to very much
the top of the driven pinion. less than you would expect. On the evidence of the
rounded tooth that I cut, I believe that this type of
Cutter Form cutter can be used at least a dozen times without sig-
As you have seen, I decided to have the cutter form nificant wear.
embrace the top of the tooth, rather than cut the tooth
space and two halves of the addendum. This avoided Heat treat the tool by heating to cherry red, holding at
any tendency to push these rather slender teeth side- that temperature for a couple of minutes and then
ways during cutting. As things turned out, the cutter quenching in oil. The tool should be suspended on a
performed better than I had expected and I doubt very piece of wire so that you can stir it around in the oil,
much that there would have been any sideways thrust, and also retrieve it without deep-frying your fingers.
the radius is still very small and I think I would use the Before heating, coat the tool in bar soap that has been
same method for other rounded teeth. So far as the softened in water, this should prevent the cutting edges
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touch the rad ius .
as a fly cutter, but a thicker blank for
a barrel or a first (great) wheel, will
not allow this. I would recommend
running the cutter at about one-fifth
of its top speed.
Wes Cutter, CC
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