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in two steps . A knee bend is first made which raises part of the coil above The inne r and outer terminal curves of the hairspring are necessary in order to bring the c ente r of gravity of the hairsp ring as clos e as possible After the hairspring has been fitted on the balance, the system is dyna mically poised, the c enter of gravity of the entire system is made to lie on P- 1 2 instrument where the balance - hairspring system operates in a reference watch m ovem ent . The unbalance of the system is checked in (24 hou r ) e rror of the system down to 3 to 5 min, and dynamic poising in the P - 1 2 instrument reduces the error to som ething of the order of 5 s econds "' . WATCH ASSEMBLY Wrist- and pocket- watches are assembled from as many as 1 4 0 to 1 5 0 parts parts . Subass emblies ar e ass embled in the mechanical shops in which the of repeated ins pection ope rations , inc reas ed responsibility of the m echanical not require much work (man-hours ) , it is not expedient to include them in The hand - s etting movement is also assembled in an operation which is not included in the cycle of basic ass embly operations . The ass embled unit In all Soviet watch plant s , the basic ass embly operations are perform ed using the conveyo r- belt system. The method of team - system ass embly for s eparate ass embly operations , form e rly us e d , has been replaced by a new 7 operations performed by highly qualified specialists . A s s embly on an intermittent conveyo r line includes 1 1 to 1 2 operations requiring ass emblers of only average qualifi cations . Some of the operations relating to the escapement and balance The idea of conveyor - line ass embly is not new. It was us ed for alarm clock asse mbly as far back as 1 9 3 0 in the s econd Moskva watch plant. Move m e nts being assembled were transferred from one workplace to the next by conveyor belts . In 1 94 8 the same plant applied the conveyor system to the ass embly of pocket watches . A new type of conveyor line, called a n i n t e r m i t t e n t • Poising is treated in more detail in the section '"W atch adjustment'" . 3 9 7 |