How about a thread on good deals made on watches that only had minor fixes needed?

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

I have one with the common broken plastic quick-set gear. The day/date changes with the time, so I manually adjust them.

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...

Regarding those Seiko 5606 movements...

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

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:

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...

Omega success story

How about a thread on watches you have where you just can't explain how they came about (but maybe someone else here can)?

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...

Watches that make you say "Hmmmmmm?"...

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:

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...

Railroad Approved Accutron 201