Restoration of a “James McCabe” duplex escapement minute repeater pocket watch
Restoration of a “James McCabe” duplex escapement minute repeater pocket watch
Repair of a “James McCabe” No. 427 8-Day Military Chronometer
In this post I face the reconstruction of an 8-day English chronometer.
Rebuilding a Higginson Repeater Pocket Watch
In this post I tackle the daunting task of repairing an 18th century repeater watch.”
Restoration and Putting Feathers on a Singing Bird
Description of the complicated process of restoring and putting feathers on a singing bird by El Cronometrista.
Reconstruction of a 1770-1780 James Cox pocket watch
Discover the Process of Reconstructing an Antique James Cox Pocket Watch (1770-1780) by El Cronometrista.
Restoration of a Bruguier Singing Bird Box
Repair of a Bruguier automaton bird box by El Cronometrista Discover the restoration process of this automaton bird box.
Repair of a French Royal Exchange
In this article I explain how I examined, disassembled, cleaned and repaired the large and small striking mechanisms, the minute repeater and the duplex calendar escapement of a French Royal Exchange.
Putting feathers on an automaton bird
It is really difficult to solve the problem of putting feathers on an automaton bird, but in this post I explain how I do it.
Reconstruction of the bellows of a singing bird box
In this post I am going to explain how to reconstruct a bellows. Not all bellows are the same; depending on the period, the mechanisms can be very different.