Our own CIrrus sent this one in – a Constellation with the early 1001 movement.
It’s got a nice rectangular case, but it will need some attention as we’ll soon see…
The dial has lots of cracks (not very well visible in this photo, but it looks pretty bad), so it goes off to David Bill & Sons for restoration.
The 1001 looks a bit dirty, but complete.
Way too fast, and a poor amplitude. All signs of dirt and no oil.
The mainspring doesn’t look too bad, but I will put in a new one.
The date mechanism on the bottom plate.
A bit of corrosion, but not too bad.
I will give the keyless works a good clean by hand before they go into the cleaning machine.
Off into the cleaning machine.
The new mainspring for the barrel.
The rotor post is worn, and I will put in a new one.
And it pays off – with new lubrication and without dirt, the movement performs much better.
The auto winder gears put together.
The bottom plate almost complete.
David Bill & Sons did a great job on the dial.
And back together.
I ccan not ecrire englai
j.ai besoin cadran et disque date et 1 tige mal pour omega calibre 1001
donne moi le prix + mode paye
merci
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Where can one get the 4 set screws that hold the case together
Try cousinsuk.com.
Hello I’m restoring the very same watch, can’t find the 1001 1108 winding pinion. Omega representation doesn’t sell parts anymore.
They stopped selling spare parts this year. Write a letter of complaint to Omega.
I know this service took time pretty long ago, but I’m wondering if you kept the sliding spring inside the barrel, or if you just went with a new mainspring and breaking grease on the barrel walls?
Nice work btw! 🙂
We put in an automatic mainspring with braking grease, and removed the sliding spring. You can see the new automatic spring in the photo with the barrel.
Thank you for your answer Christian! Yes i saw the new mainspring, just curious if you cleaned and oiled the slip spring and put it back in togheter wirh the new spring, or if it was enough with just the new spring. Did the original springs have a different construction then the new replacement springs?
You can’t put the old slip spring in with an automatic mainspring, you have to remove it. The original spring was made of two parts – the slipping bridle, and a non-automatic mainspring.
Ok, then I am following. Thank you so much for explaining. 🙂
Have to agree with Tony
Very nice service to a nice watch except the redial was done with wrong template and wrong font type.
You can’t expect them to have an exact template for such a rare dial. This sort of stuff is done on a “Best effort” basis.
Indeed – you accept it isn’t going to be an exact reproduction of the factory product.
I could of have bought a NOS plain silver dial, but the painted ones from this period all seem to suffer from the cracking and crazing issue and to me a restored black dial was preferable to an original silver one.
Yes, I would accept too for a redial, but would still hope for a closer match of font type and template.
You can hope all you like, but in the real world with dial restoration, you work to the best possible approximation given the templates that are available. There are other dial restorers out there but certainly from our own experience David R Bill are fast, efficient and do a great job on the majority of dials. Good work Christian!.
I do like a nice shiny movement – and now it also has a new crystal to show off the restored dial.
I have been wearing this pretty much ever since it came back and it is a performing perfectly – am greatly pleased at the results of the service!
Many thanks for the sterling service 😉