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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thor447" data-source="post: 3951428" data-attributes="member: 24867">With the barrel arbor upgrade done, the part was cleaned again and assembly could begin.  The first thing I like to do is to address the upper and lower balance shock settings and jewels, and assemble the mainspring, arbor, & barrel assembly.Unfortunately working on those jewel and shock settings is incredibly delicate work and they are extremely small.  I do not have photos of that portion, but getting this work done is good (for me at least) because once the balance is ready to be installed, all of that jewel cleaning and lubrication has been done and you don't have to disassemble those shock settings while the watch is running.The watch got a new mainspring.  Here is a couple of photos showing that spring and the assembly installed before closing up the barrel.  The newer synthetic lubrication is quite a bit nicer looking than the old black grease they used to use.[ATTACH=full]341437[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]341393[/ATTACH]Assembly on this movement does not go in the reverse order.  Since the front chronograph plate of this watch has the port of the barrel arbor (and not the main plate), that needs to be in place before building the rear side of the watch. With this in mind, I went ahead and assembled the all of the parts that go underneath that chronograph plate.[ATTACH=full]341394[/ATTACH]Front chronograph plate installed, covering those parts:[ATTACH=full]341395[/ATTACH]With this done I went to work on the rear of the movement.  Everything went back in just like it came out, so these are basically the same photos as before, only with clean parts.[ATTACH=full]341396[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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