Job Numbers 210085
This movement has a really cool, but highly problematic, lever-setting mechanism using a ring gear with teeth on both the inside and the outside. The lever action engages and disengages the ring from a two-level cannon pinion. Very interesting components here... But in practice, it's often hard to get enough tension to hold the ring against the cannon pinion snugly. Another issue is that there is no spring pressing the winding mode action against the ratchet wheel. It depends only on the turning action of the main wheel to push an idler in toward the barrel.

So far this movement feels like winding and setting will work. I had to made some adjustments to get it to wind. We'll see about the cannon pinion. If it is too loose it will slip. If it is too tight, the setting wheel will jump off. Sometimes the one spring in this system just can no longer push enough to turn a cannon pinion that is just tight enough to not slip while the movement is running.

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