Just asked my wife’s approval for a display cabinet a month ago. She thought it was big enough.

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Someone had this bright idea making a Minerva 13-20 into a Breitling and sold on eBay for £250. Well, it’s “Breitling” expensive but still the cheapest Minerva I can find.

As a typical problem of this movement, the brake/hammer holder is missing. Sinc...

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I think I have a growing collection of Smiths watches. I aim to have one type of movement each, since they’re reasonably cheap in UK especially for broken ones, and reasonably easy to work with. Most of them I just brought movement only and put it into...

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Just got this A11 from eBay relatively cheap, and as typical eBay junk it’s pretty dead. All other issues were easy except the hacking mechanism is missing completely. Unlike other parts that can be taken from similar movements, the hacking thing is on...

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Got this one from eBay for £200, very sad condition but it’s kind of running. Dial is ruined, small-second pivot snapped, all hands missing.

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