I just picked up a cool Gruen bumper cheap because it had running troubles. Took the back off and the click and click screw fell out!
Cleaned up nice!
I thought there was a way to date them by the serial number, but couldn’t find the site. Ron
What I’ve been doing is setting the day by passing midnight until the day changes, then going backwards until around 8:00pm, then forward again until the day advances; doing that until I get the desired day. I was wondering is there’s a way to adjust the date the same way? It seems the date just goes back and forth to the same date without advancing. Maybe I need to go…
and how bad it looked after I tried to make it better:
I thought about sending it out to get repainted, but didn’t have any confidence that it would…
I’ve shown these before but while I know what this is, I can’t explain how the dial came to be:
And while many vintage Mido’s I’ve seen are on the small side (28mm), this one is pretty large (35mm), and what is going on with the enamel dial and green/red hands? The serial number dates it to…
My questions is on the dials. I’ve seen hundreds of actual watches that have dials, 12 hour and 24 hour, with Bulova Accutron. But I have never seen an ad with an photo of an actual…
