Bound and numbered
Repair record
Every job written up for these pages, newest first. The earliest one here is from 17 October 2023; the four years of entries before that are in two hardback books on the shelf and were never meant to be read by anyone else.
- Wear
- Springs
- Timekeeping
- A job start to finish
2026
Four attempts at one eight-day wall movement
A job start to finish
A weight-driven wall regulator that stopped every few days, and the four separate goes it took to find the fault, including a case clean that nearly cost it its original finish.
Finished 27 Jan 2026 · corrected 9 Jun 2026 · 11 minutes at the pace I read
2025
Putting a pendulum in beat by count rather than by guess
Timekeeping
Setting a clock in beat properly, regulating it with the rating nut over a fortnight, and why a movement that keeps perfect time on my board loses four minutes a week on a customer wall.
Finished 11 Mar 2025 · corrected 6 Nov 2025 · 10 minutes at the pace I read
2024
Letting down a mainspring before it lets you down
Springs
How I release the power in a going barrel, the order I do it in, the afternoon a let-down key slipped, and why I no longer open barrels on the open bench.
Finished 26 Feb 2024 · corrected 14 Sept 2024 · 8 minutes at the pace I read
2023
Bushing a worn pivot hole without making it worse
Wear
Oval pivot holes in an eight-day mantel movement: how I measure the wear before touching anything, and the two bushes I pressed in crooked and had to drill out again.
Finished 17 Oct 2023 · corrected 2 Mar 2024 · 9 minutes at the pace I read
Entries are corrected rather than rewritten, and a correction never removes the figure that was wrong. Where a later job contradicts an earlier one, both stay and the newer says which it overturns. The reasoning behind that is set out in thenote on how a job is written up.