Just in today, watch has been recently serviced and many other service marks recorded over the years 2000+.
Seems like someone had problem with timing. innovative use of glue!!!!... picture not the best but you get the idea.

Very nice!

I'll have to remember this little trick in future repairs

Had a closer look, the glue has chunks of metal pressed in.
Just out of curiosity I put the balance in, not surprisingly its way off, no doubt another ebay sale “recently serviced”

Sadly its often a daily event See next! but they got it done real cheap

Chris that is ugly!!! Would have been a lot easier for the "supergluer" to just replace the missing balance screw to bring the watch back to timing. Good luck cleaning that up!! Yikes

Rob
www.pocketwatchrepairs.net

Yikes!