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Are they the correct characters? (Simple.)

Best wishes,
Bob

Here's the font (numerals 1-10; 11 is 10 :on top of 1; and 12 is 10 on top of 2).

http://www.rlfrazier.org/images/movements/Seagull/Ch_numerals.jpg

Best wishes,
Bob

No promises, because there's a ton of stuff in the queue, but perhaps a mid-summer competition with one of the Seagull movements cased up in the Mondaine recycled brass case (pictured below) and an...

Thanks, Peter.

I've been thinking about what you've said, on and off. Here are my first thoughts.

I think that you are absolutely correct in that we differentiate between the utility...

I bought a really low end one last year to take a look at. I don't remember which calibre/manufacturer. It was garbage, and I tossed it.

Best wishes,
Bob

I don't anything else about them. I got them from Eddie.

Best wishes,
Bob

Thank for your kind comments, folks!

I've been curious about the better Chinese movements, and it was good to have this curiosity satisfied.

Best wishes,
Bob

It will probably go all pear shaped, but I'm off to the shed to clean it (while smoking a cigar), then I'll oil it and put enough of it back together to time it.

I'm not going to clean the...

I'm not sure. This is just a guess. The Firefox on Windows loads everything before displaying anything? Whereas on FreeBSD is displays incrementally? Alternatively, it could be that the pictures...

Are you sure about the Microset? That doesn't sound right to me.

The Delph timer takes 96000 samples a second. A watch train running at 28800 vph has 8 beats per second. So, it is 12000...

It will probably go all pear shaped, but I'm off to the shed to clean it (while smoking a cigar), then I'll oil it and put enough of it back together to time it.

I'm not going to clean the...

I cleaned it, and the hair came off.

Look, we all know that light matters. I was trying to use the same setup, as much as possible, for all the pictures. It means that things aren't always...

Here are more pictures of the ST26 (2892 clone).

ST26.
http://www.rlfrazier.org/images/movements/Seagull/ST26_movement_29Mar2008_S.jpg
1600 x n.
Full size.


Balance....

We did the temp. above. It has standard shock protection. About the magnetism, I don't have any instruments to measure it, unfortunately.

Best wishes,
Bob

I've disassembled the ST26. It is much, much, cleaner. No hairballs, or anything. Things also look better finished. This looks an altogether tidier movement. I would be interested in knowing the...

Thanks about the pictures. I was more pleased with them than I expected to be. Apparently, I'm coming pretty close to having A SYSTEM. ;)

Best wishes,
Bob

I looked again under the microscope. Then I cleaned them and looked again. I'm afraid that I can't find any chips or flaws in them.

Stone 1....

Here are the results after 25 minutes in the freezer.

http://www.rlfrazier.org/images/movements/Seagull/ST26_timing_cold_28Mar2008.jpg

Best wishes,
Bob

Bye the bye. The photos were taken with the K10D and either a Brunel microscope (BM-1, longarm stereo) either set up for 10x or 20x, or an Elicar 90mm macro lens. (I'll leave it as an exercise for...

Take the above one to be the room temperature one, although a coolish room temperature. I've popped it in the freezer, and will time it again in about 20 minutes.

Best wishes,
Bob

Some of the lint was from me, I suspect. E.g., positioning it for pictures. However, as I said, it wasn't as clean as it should have been.

Best wishes,
Bob

I suspect that some parts are interchangable, but I woldn't bet on it.

As a teaser, here is the timing for the ST26 (2892).
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A base model. If you want to send me a chronometer version, well .... ;)

Best wishes,
Bob

I'm going to put together a watch with it. It will be quite a performer, I think.

Best wishes,
Bob

I'm going to organize my particular comments by sets of pictures to make
it easier to follow along, if you like.

I have tried to follow the following convention. The ETA goes first, if
there is...