This watch is the combination of the salvagable parts from below two watches.

The 8229-6040 on the right above ("the old one" hereinafter) is one of the junk that came alongside the two "bait" watches: a Seiko Elnix and a Seiko Crown that I wanted.

The other junk was a 5933-7020 that I wrote about earlier.

The hope was not high on this old one.

Looking extremely closely on the jeweled pivot, you can find its pinion absent, unlike the unjeweled pivot next to it.

This is possible by forcibly screwing down the plate when the pinion wasn't properly lined up to the jeweled hole, the pinion just snaps, and would require a replacement.

At the time I only had this old one, and a lack of donor movement in my other junks, so this was deemed unsavable.

Until one day a not working instance of the same model (the new one) emerged on an auction with little competition. Its cosmetic condition is inferior to the old one with dents at the 8 o'clock and 2-3 o'clock.

Putting a fresh battery into the new one, it showed sign of life with a second hand twitching in place — a clean up would usually fix this.

And the old one happens to have a good case. Can a simple movement clean and swap resolve this?

Not quite. The dial feet are missing from the new one. I suspect another botch job of watch repair person here. The dial seemed to have been glued on but the glue seems to have lost its ability to hold the dial and the plastic movement holder together.

The case back hinted on when this was last worked on. Is it March of 平成14年 (2002), or 2014? One can only speculate, and either way, it's a long time ago.

Te disassembly was uneventful — I have worked on this movement several times.

So here it goes.

Day disc and snap.

I made note how to take the snap out, slightly differently than what the technical guide and the snap keeps turning when I apply force.

Date dial guard and date disc.

Date jumper.

Before cleaning, the date disc jumps only half way. Maybe the last person applied oil to the jumper or the bottom of the date disc, which both the technical guide advised against.

Hour wheel.

Unusually, the keyless work is on the movement side, not on this dial side.

Date driving wheel.

On some other constructions it's 2-3 parts but Seiko managed to make a 3-level wheel into one plastic part here.

Day correction setting wheel.

This one rocks back and forth to set date and day. Again a nice simplification doing away of a rocking lever.

Setting wheel.

Sets the time.

Intermediate wheel for day correction.

The day correction setting wheel moves back and forth depending on the direction this one turns.

Minute wheel.

The one was quite stuck, I used Rodico to pull this out.

Dial holding ring is slightly cracked.

Time for the movement side.

Anti-magnetic shield plate.

Circuit block and battery connection.

Battery connection.

Circuit block spacer.

Coil block.

Taking out my multi-meter to double check the coil's continuity and resitatnce.

Third wheel bridge.

The third wheel was actually sticking to the bridge when removed, hinting of dried on oil that hindered movement.

Center wheel bridge.

Step rotor and stator.

Rotor is clean.

Center wheel and pinion

Seems a bit dirty.

Setting lever and setting level spring.

Clutch wheel, winding stem and yoke.

Manipulate the yoke by the spot pointed at by the tweezer.

Now a slight diversion to the other watch, the old one.

Before reassembling the movement, I need to enusre the case is ready to receive it.

The case was a bit dirty, and I don't know how to remove the chapter ring so I used cotton bud and alcohol to wipe away the dirt.

Dial looks good with dial feet.

August 平成15年 (2003) and?

The glass didn't survive the crystal press. It's replaced by a new sapphire glass.

The reassembly was uneventful.

And now it ticks away happily. The second hand is lining up with the indices surprisingly well, too.

The combined cost of two part watches is unlikely to justify the outcome of one working SilverWave quartz.

But I feel the urge to get the old one repaired when I saw the new one on listing. Perhaps, I somehow felt personally responsible for the botch job the repair person did to the old one, and to redeem that mistake, I went to get a part watch to repair this.

That was fun.