Whilst replacement staffs are available from New Old Stock (NOS) for most watches by Waltham and several of the Swiss makers such as Cyma/Tavannes and Revue (that is one reason I deal in those makes) it is becoming increasingly hard to find them and prices are correspondingly rising, also NOS staffs are not available for any English watch made pre WWII.įor sometime I have been contemplating buying the necessary equipment and investing a considerable amount of time learning how to use it - several weeks full time I suspect before usable staffs are produced - I haven't used a lathe since my apprenticeship days which was rather a long time ago and that lathe was about 6 foot long. There are a few watchmaking repairs that can only be done with a lathe and similar tools, the most critical being the manufacture of replacement balance staffs.
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