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Service Repair and sales of Wrist and Pocket Watches.  All work carried out by graduate certified watchmaker,
Go direct to the watchmaker and save, no sale tax out of state.
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Hairspring Problems?

It is not uncommon to encounter watches that previous repair attempts and been abandoned due to hairsprings having been "adjusted" or handled badly especially in pocket watches that are most prone to tampering 75% of these need some hairspring correction. Abellwatchmakers has undertaken months of training on art of hairspring rectification. When necessary a new hairspring can be vibrated. most problems can be rectified but not all!

There are no magic tools that I know of for straightening hairsprings,
just a few of pairs of tweezers and a great deal of patience.



Had a  watch arrive with a severely damaged hairspring,
I explained that there was little chance of fixing this spring and no doubt would break  in doing so,
I asked if just for my own practice and see if I can I still  do it?  make an attempt at repair.

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It took me a good half hour to extract the balance complete 
without causing more damage, what a mess.


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When I had a little spare time and the inclination I worked on it a little more until I managed 
to get it down to looking like a hairspring once again, still lots of work to do.



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Did I mention it was small? 
This was the last photo I took I corrected it a little more after this got those center round back ,
tested it in the watch to find even more problems so abandoned it at this point will look for a
parts watch but good exercise in hairspring work.
Tools needed; two pairs of fine tweezers, practice and patience


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  • Home
  • Watch Store
    • Watches for sale
    • Under $100
    • Tools & Others
    • Watch Bands
  • Jewelry Store
    • Jewelry Store
    • Estate Jewelry
  • Contact direct
  • Examples
    • serviced watches
    • interesting watches serviced
    • Quick and cheap repairs
    • Hairspring problems
    • Rolex Early Examples
    • E Howard Experimental
    • Repeater Chiming
    • French repeater
    • Links to Manufactures
  • About/service/ship
    • About
    • Can I service your watch?
    • How to Ship