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Dear Sirs,

I own a beautiful Vintage Omega Genève Calibre 1012 and I have a problem setting the time clockwise. The watch runs great, if I pull the Crown to position 1 I'm able to change date in both directions, but with Crown in position two if I turn the Crown to move the hands clockwise there is a point when the hands stop moving and I start to hear a "tick" like some piece is missing a teeth, then I need to turn it counterclockwise (wich turns fine everytime) and begin again with the turn clockwise until it happens again in other place... Could somebody help me. What could be wrong? The movement looks like new...I think I'm the first person to open the caseback in these 40 years XD Thanks in advance.
 
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Are you asking us to diagnose a problem with your watch, on the internet, with even a picture (not that one would help)?
 
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Dear Sirs,

I own a beautiful Vintage Omega Genève Calibre 1012 and I have a problem setting the time clockwise. The watch runs great, if I pull the Crown to position 1 I'm able to change date in both directions, but with Crown in position two if I turn the Crown to move the hands clockwise there is a point when the hands stop moving and I start to hear a "tick" like some piece is missing a teeth, then I need to turn it counterclockwise (wich turns fine everytime) and begin again with the turn clockwise until it happens again in other place... Could somebody help me. What could be wrong? The movement looks like new...I think I'm the first person to open the caseback in these 40 years XD Thanks in advance.

Cannon pinion is not working properly (common on these watches), and yes teeth may be missing now that you have played with it. I would suggest stop trying to move the hands and get it to a watchmaker.

Cheers, Al
 
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Sorry to resurrect this thread but I’m an amateur I have a similar problem on a 1012. Watch keeps excellent time, but when I go to set the time, the minute hand slips. Hour hand and date can be set just fine.

My initial theory was that the minute wheel was being pushed up and disengaging with cannon pinion by the date corrector lever. My thinking is that it has to be something to do with date corrector/ minute wheel interaction as the watch is fine on its own steam. Or could it still be the cannon pinion?

Photo shows where I’m at with the investigation.


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Did you pull the cannon pinion apart before you cleaned it? Then did you lubricate it when you assembled it?
 
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Hi Al, I did but am going to re visit it and have a closer look, I automatically discounted any cannon pinion problems because it had no problems outside of setting the time.
 
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