great food for thought and thanks for sharing. Nowadays very few watchmakers can repair and overhaul extremely well a valjoux72 or its rare rattrapante variant

Jul 30, 2017,03:05 AM
 

Also not every watchmaker poises the balances as well as retouches the hammers on this movement. Worse on the full calendar variant which is more complicated to service.
And with some rare and complicated chrono calibres, it is just only a few who can master the craft of bringing back to life this kind of mechanism.

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great food for thought and thanks for sharing. Nowadays very few watchmakers can repair and overhaul extremely well a valjoux72 or its rare rattrapante variant

 
By: georgeszaslavsky : July 30th, 2017-03:05
Also not every watchmaker poises the balances as well as retouches the hammers on this movement. Worse on the full calendar variant which is more complicated to service. And with some rare and complicated chrono calibres, it is just only a few who can mas...