Hello everyone, just thought I‘d show off a recent purchase of mine, share what I’ve learned about the little known Australian watch industry, and ask for help ID’ing the movement;
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Continue readingTroubleshooting Ultra Fast Watch
So I’ve got an early 40s manual wind watch with an ebauche that I suspect is a Unitas, and it has a need for speed. The sales listing said that it was making a full rotation of the seconds hand in 45 seconds, which would be hours fast per day. Naturally, I assumed it was a magnetization problem.
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Before winding the watch myself, I held the movement up to my cheapo compass and the needle immediately jumped over 40…
Customs Strangeness From Australia to Japan
I know that most users are looking to export from Japan rather than import, so this may be a novel situation on the forum, but there may be a lesson to be learned either way so I thought I might as well post it.
I am importing a watch from Australia t…
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