@Melissabeartrix Not an horologist, but maybe you or...

@Melissabeartrix
Not an horologist, but maybe you or others on this thread can give some advice.

Found this ladies watch yesterday going through old jewelry box of my grandmothers. I think it was my great-grandmothers. It’s lovely, but I’ve no idea how to wind it, if needs work or where to take it to be evaluated. Where should I start?

Close up of the face of a small ladies watch. The winding hole is visible on the upper outer edge and the face under the 12 says
JEAN PERRET
GENÈVE
The face is black with gold letters and numbers at the very bottom under the six in tiny letters it says SWISS MADE

Back of a small ladies watch on a chain with a clear crystal so the inner gears and workings are visible. The outer orange enamel is worn at the bottom near where the winding hole (not visible) is located. At the point where pins join some of the gears, are tiny ruby colored gaskets? Enamel?

A round watch with an orange enamel outer ring hanging from a silver chain with orange enamel elements shaped like long pointed end flattened cylinders. The watch is attached so that when hanging it would be upside down, but readable when lifted to one’s face.

Like 6 January at 14:04 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.green

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Clara Listensprechen

Well, the usual way to wind that watch is to use the stem, and you say it's missing--that would be the first thing to replace. Those red grommet-looking things are actually ruby, and the mechanism is called a jeweled movement. That's to maintain accuracy over a long span of daily usage which would diminish with friction wear on the gears otherwise.

6 January at 18:32 | Open on friendica.myportal.social

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