![]() ![]() (sorry, I don't seem to have a shot of the plate without some of the motion works, but I am NOT going to strip the movement again just to get it. One false move and it's watch-part Jenga! The plastic plate secures it all in place. The minute and hour wheels have heart cams on the underside and are in contact with the levers, which are now under tension from the springs. At this point the levers and wheels are in place simply by sitting on posts or with only one side in a hole. The center plate/spring had a brass piece attached that is the pivot hole for the runner wheel, which is fit from the train side and makes it next to impossible to install the train bridge if this wheel isn't in its pivot. I found out the hard way that assembling the chronograph works makes assembling the train side much easier. That year marked also the end of Bulova’s golden age. You need a special tool to press the legs of the spring - and ONLY the legs - so you can simultaneously capture them under the lip of the setting. One year later, the tuning fork Accutron production was stopped once and for all after more than 5 million pieces were sold. The is a version of this setting that has one notch where you can insert one leg/dimple/bump, whatever they are called, of the spring under the lip and rotate it with two pair of tweezers, but NO, ETA had to use this one where even with three hands it would be difficult. ![]() As JohnR725 pointed out, the Swatch group hates independent and hobbyist watchmakers by using the three notch version of the Novodiac setting. Since the plastic plate that holds the minute and hour counter wheels in place also has the date jumper and date quickset attached with studs and cover the shock setting, now is the best time to clean and lubricate it. I suppose this is technically a column wheel chronograph, but to me it seems to incorporate a good bit of cam action as well with the column wheel attached to the main plate with a fixed stud rather than a screw. Oh, did I mention that the chronograph complication is on the dial side of the main plate? Nothing special with the keyless works. New Listing Rare Bulova Accutron Astronaut GMT Swiss Made Automatic Ltd Ed. This has to go in before the chronograph side because the plastic plate that holds most of the chrono levers in place covers most of the keyless. 1968 ACCUTRON 214 TUNING FORK MENS WRISTWATCH NEEDS SOME REPAIR OR WORK DONE. The first thing that went together was the keyless works. This can be done by holding the watch in your right hand, and lightly tapping (once, maybe twice) on. That was a hard find, since the available documents are for the Omega and Lemania movements which use a more traditional escapement. This is our addition to Bulova's original instructions: With the use of silver-oxide batteries after 2005, it is occasionally necessary to start the tuning fork's vibration again after changing batteries or and abrupt shock that stops the fork. ![]()
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