A balance tack serves as a place to put your balance assembly after removal from the watch movement. Here is...
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Most likely was magnetised, and needed to be de-magnetised.
It means no one can tell for sure where they were made. Just 'somewhere else'…
:-; = ;-)
No one can truly or safely tell someone else that ... That's 'el problemo' ...…
@Chuck, only a 'j'-stamped movement will be japanese. True !
It is susceptible to magnetization. I built some speakers using drivers with strong magnets while…
Way more than I guessed. For the first 6 months, I actually thought that the…