I picked up an Olympos that seemed reasonably priced; the seller only had one watch photo, claimed it was not tested and being sold as-is for parts. I took a chance. Sellers photo:
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Continue readingLatest addition to the Seiko family….
Picked this up for an offer I couldn't refuse. Likely from 2004, 21 jewels, and looks to have little to no wear! I've seen these before with different color dials; first time I've run across a green one. It's growing on me. May wind…
Continue readingQuestion on Omega 1020 movement..
I have a question regarding the Omega 1020 day driver (the blue part.. # 1020-1571). I have two 1020 movements.
I checked them both for reference.
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Continue readingFirst Longines
From time to time I get tips on watches from some of my friends. Last week a clock maker friend of mine said he had an Omega and Bulova that I might want. While sitting as his table I saw a pile of watches. On top was an old automatic Longines. He aske…
Continue readingMy kind of fix!
How about a thread on good deals made on watches that only had minor fixes needed?
Continue readingI 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
Regarding those Seiko 5606 movements…
I have one with the common broken plastic quick-set gear. The day/date changes with the time, so I manually adjust them.
Continue readingWhat 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…
Crown for Omega…
Anyone know where I can get a new crown for my Omega chrono… inside case code is 145.018. If not, anyone know what the part number may be? The outer plating of gold came off; it’s usable but I’d like to replace it. Cheers, Ron
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Omega success story
Every watch has a story, and this one had a nice payoff for the amount of time I invested. I picked up this Omega in 2019 for a cheap price because the dial was bad. 14k, with a bad dial, which I tried to clean up, and immediately made worse!
This is the original dial:
Continue readingThis is the original dial:
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…
Watches that make you say “Hmmmmmm?”…
How about a thread on watches you have where you just can’t explain how they came about (but maybe someone else here can)?
Continue readingI’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…
Railroad Approved Accutron 201
Bought this back in 2009. Every once in a while I’ll pop a battery in and test-drive it. Always runs great. From 1965, although the ad I found below was from 1963. I did have a few questions regarding these railroad approved Bulova’s:
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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…
