Had a 5035 on the bench which ran, but could not be regulated below +24 s/month. Not an uncommon problem…these are 70s vintage watches and in my experience, the quartz oscillators can drift beyond the adjustment range of the trimming capacitor.
This …
Continue readingTh…
Continue readingHad a Gruen 370 Curvex on the bench today.
knew it would require hairspring work going in, but had not forseen this:
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Continue readingSteve and Si are too long time friends. They are collectors and dealers and generally have quality timepieces.
One of the pieces sold a couple of months ago is s Wakmann chrono with a manual wind Venus 188 movement. Service history was unknown.
Owner …
A while ago I asked the SloMo Guys about doing a short segment on Accutron showing the beautifully sweeping seconds hand at a frame rate which would actually show it stopped between each oscillation of the tuning fork.
Here it is:
Well done SloMo Guy…
