Originally Posted by angeche
Bob,excellent thread and pics. I do not want to distort the discussion here, but I thought it may be a good idea to show a pair of pics from the pallet of a lower quality chinese movement (coming from a Trolex). Before posting the pic, let me put forward my conclusions. First, the pallet of the ST24 looks poor compared to this one, so maybe Bob has just been unlucky with the ST24 he got...Second, it also has a hair! But maybe it is easy to get contamination from the environment. Have you tried to see whether the hair in the pallet of the ST24 could be removed?