This time I´m restoring an old military watch from the WW2-Era.
It´s a Thiel with the Thiel "start"-movement. Based on the movement it should be made between 1938 and 1942.

The watch is in a really bad condition. The chrome-plating of the case is severely damaged, the glass is scratched, the movement is rusty and doesn´t work at all.

I´m removing the old chrome with my new chrome-stripper (links attached below).

After sanding and polishing the case, it´s ready for a new chrome-plating. But I need to add a layer of nickel before.

The glass will be polished and the movement cleaned. The rusty movement-parts getting a manual polish by hand.

The hour-hand is broken at the arbor but luckily it still works fine and I am able to keep the original one. I´m polishing the hands and re-blue them with my new flame-bluing-kit (links attached below again).

There is not much I can do about the dial, a little cleaning of the radium contaminated surface has to be enough, because I don´t want to damage the original painting.

After everything is cleaned, polished, re-plated and re-blued, I can re-assemble the movement with some fresh oil. After that, this watch is in a good beat (+22 seconds per day) again.

I hope you liked this restoration, if so, like, comment and subscribe ;)

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