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Have a few vintage clocks that I got to practice working on movements.

This one had the leather burnt and was needing cleaned up. So I disassembled it polished all the metal and replaced the leather. It looks a lot better to me and still retained the vintage look.

A bold step, but it turned out good!

Yoda wrote: ↑June 5th, 2019, 11:24 am A bold step, but it turned out good!

Thank you Jedi Master.

a nice result, the movement looks very great

Replacing the leather! Brilliant.

I looked in my books, it appears to be a 1940s Jaeger LeCoultre calibre 202. The 202 was also made with triple complications like day, date and month.
But this one is good, simple and working well.

tafari wrote: ↑June 5th, 2019, 1:19 pm a nice result, the movement looks very great

Emilio wrote: ↑June 5th, 2019, 1:52 pm Replacing the leather! Brilliant.

Thanks, looks a lot better on my desk now.

Yoda wrote: ↑June 5th, 2019, 1:52 pm I looked in my books, it appears to be a 1940s Jaeger LeCoultre calibre 202. The 202 was also made with triple complications like day, date and month.
But this one is good, simple and working well.

Thanks for looking it up Michael. I had no idea of the decade it was made I just wanted a non alarm, crown winding movement I could study. I wind it just once a week and it looses about 3 minutes a week.

Mike777 wrote: ↑June 5th, 2019, 2:13 pm

Yoda wrote: ↑June 5th, 2019, 1:52 pm I looked in my books, it appears to be a 1940s Jaeger LeCoultre calibre 202. The 202 was also made with triple complications like day, date and month.
But this one is good, simple and working well.

Thanks for looking it up Michael. I had no idea of the decade it was made I just wanted a non alarm, crown winding movement I could study. I wind it just once a week and it looses about 3 minutes a week.

No problem, it was fun to do some research.

Did you service the movement? It should be able to do +/- 30 seconds a week.
By the way, did you leave the old leather be underneath?
Case material, nickel on brass?

Excellent Job!!