A Lord-Matic 5606-8090 was bought on Ebay with the description “not running”. I think the watch has a elegant dial and is rather thin. It will be interesting to see if I can get this gem alive again. This post will be updated during the course of the project.
It doesn’t start well. The self-winding rotor is not rotating smoothly. It grinding when trying to rotate it. It is also covered with some green had stuff. This green stuff has also eaten into the metal. Must consist of som acid. Could it be cola or similar?
Even if i clean of the green stuff it leaves lots of corroded dimples. Does not look nice, will have to order a new (old) rotor.
2026-01-13
I had to order a main spring and a ‘day-date corrector wheel rocking lever’ as the latter was broken. Also some more storage boxes for watch parts.
Time to take the movement out of the case. The dial has some marking around the edges. I’ll keep the dial, think it part of the watch’s history.
Removing dial and day wheel. Note that the day wheel has 2 languages, English and Japanese, so you can choose witch to use.
To remove the date wheel some plates must be removed first. The teeth of the date wheel are covered by plates in some places. This so that it is secured if or when you hold the watch upside down.
Two plates had to be removed. If you are interested in their names: “Date dial guard” and “Day jumper”.
Here I have already removed the “Day jumper” and unscrewing “Date dial guard”
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