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What's inside my $11 Banana PAM???
Well, just yesterday, my crown was getting really really hard to turn to adjust the time. Almost impossible to move in either direction, almost cutting my fingers trying to budge it.
So I decided to open 'er up. Never opened a watch of any kind before. But I folllowed some tips on this forum and was able to open the caseback and remove a few parts and check it out.
A few notes and surprises:
- I used the duct tape method to remove the caseback - just a thick wad and press down and turn counterclockwise - easier than I thought.
- Maybe I was dreaming of seeing a fully decorated Swiss ETA movement, so when I looked inside ----- WTF??
- Can anybody tell me what kind of movement this is???
- When I removed the crown stem (by pressing on the tiny button), a little mysterious black object popped out. I don't have any idea what it is - at first I thought it was a dead bug.
- I played with the automatic movement a while and it seemed to be acting funny. I thought it moves just based on simple gravity. But here's what it would do sometimes - if I manually turned it a half-turn clockwise, it would spring back and turn a full turn conter-clockwise. If I did a full clockwise, it would do two times counter-clockwise. Almost like an old rotary telephone. Is this normal?
- I lifted out the entire movement and removed it from the case by just prying it out.
- I was SHOCKED when I saw the front of the dial. It was WHITE, not YELLOW??
- I looked at the crystal and sure enough, it was tinted a deep yellow.
- So the dial wasn't yellow, the crystal was?!? Anybody see this before??
- Still shocked, I put everything back together and the case back on successfully. Everything except that strange little black foamy rubbery bug-type thingy.
- My first time surgery was successful - and my crown seems to be turning a whole lot smoother now too. Also, as an added bonus - it seems that I can now turn the crown counter-clockwise and manually wind my automatic as well!
Well, I hope you enjoyed my exclusvie review of the PAM00$11 !!!
What's inside my $11 Banana PAM???
Well, just yesterday, my crown was getting really really hard to turn to adjust the time. Almost impossible to move in either direction, almost cutting my fingers trying to budge it.
So I decided to open 'er up. Never opened a watch of any kind before. But I folllowed some tips on this forum and was able to open the caseback and remove a few parts and check it out.
A few notes and surprises:
- I used the duct tape method to remove the caseback - just a thick wad and press down and turn counterclockwise - easier than I thought.
- Maybe I was dreaming of seeing a fully decorated Swiss ETA movement, so when I looked inside ----- WTF??
- Can anybody tell me what kind of movement this is???
- When I removed the crown stem (by pressing on the tiny button), a little mysterious black object popped out. I don't have any idea what it is - at first I thought it was a dead bug.
- I played with the automatic movement a while and it seemed to be acting funny. I thought it moves just based on simple gravity. But here's what it would do sometimes - if I manually turned it a half-turn clockwise, it would spring back and turn a full turn conter-clockwise. If I did a full clockwise, it would do two times counter-clockwise. Almost like an old rotary telephone. Is this normal?
- I lifted out the entire movement and removed it from the case by just prying it out.
- I was SHOCKED when I saw the front of the dial. It was WHITE, not YELLOW??
- I looked at the crystal and sure enough, it was tinted a deep yellow.
- So the dial wasn't yellow, the crystal was?!? Anybody see this before??
- Still shocked, I put everything back together and the case back on successfully. Everything except that strange little black foamy rubbery bug-type thingy.
- My first time surgery was successful - and my crown seems to be turning a whole lot smoother now too. Also, as an added bonus - it seems that I can now turn the crown counter-clockwise and manually wind my automatic as well!
Well, I hope you enjoyed my exclusvie review of the PAM00$11 !!!