Early 861 now with busted pusher. Is this a quick fix to replace them? How far apart does the watch need to be taken? How long would it take for a proficient watchmaker to replace in terms of actual working time?

The movement was serviced a couple months ago with the Original pushers left unchanged, hence now broken.

 

Here is an old post on another form:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/how-change-pusher-tubes-196441.html

 

can you do your entire post in 'pirate'?

 

That's illegal until September 19th.

 

Note that not all pushers are screwed into the case, as some a friction fitted, so require a different approach to replacing them.

To the OP...not a big job. Just requires the movement to be removed from the case, then swap pushers, then install movement again. Depending on the type of pusher this is a 30 minute job maybe.

Cheers, Al

 

Thanks Al, it's a good bit of a drive to the watchmaker so I'll hope to get make arrangements to get it done same day.

 

If its a 145.022Speedmaster case then it is a straight forward job if you have the right tools. I assume you would be replacing both complete pushers?

 

It's always a straightforward job with the right tools!

 

lol I guess I did send you a watch which needed those 'right tools'