Despite existing in a box for decades and never being used the plating is turning green.

How do I remove the green? Ultrasonic didn't work.

I've got this vintage Bergeon and it seems like something a Chinese factory could slap togther for $20 max and sell for under $100

The technology is incredibly basic, just a motor, variable resistor and a clockwork timer.

China can clone anything for cheap but somehow not these?

Unfortunately I was never able to meet him until it was too late, as me and my wife wedded during covid and couldn't travel. Now there is no one alive that knows anything about the company.

There are vintage watches branded as "Euro Watch" but I have no idea what "21 ST AVE" means, sounds like a street in USA.

Google is giving me nothing, all…

Does anyone know anything about the brand Eurowatch?

I've inherited enough tools to probably open a workshop after I got some training.

But I have a friend that said don't even bother training because the industry is dead.

He was a watchmaker working in a factory for Swatch, but said now he can only find work selling watches in boutiques.

Before he passed, my family member who I inherited the workshop from, also complained about how the watch industry was dying and he got fewer and fewer…

Honest opinions on the state of the watchmaking industry?

It has his personal name on it, not his company name. What is this movement? Its missing several parts like a balance wheel. I'm hoping the one I found in the same box is correct.

It would be awesome if its his custom version of a common movement, then I could try and finish it.

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This movement has my father in laws name on it. What is it?

This machine is in my late father in laws workshop, it looks like a lathe but I don't see a cutter.

There seems to be some kind of sensor connected to an electronics box.

This was in the collect but got broken as I removed it because I can't figure out how the collet is opened.

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I am liquidating a watch factory

My late father in law ran a small watch workshop in Switzerland that closed its doors long ago.

I'm now going through all the machines and tools to help his widow liquidate everything.

I've come across some documents stating VC hired my father in laws workshop to assemble the calibre in the thread title.

I know this calibre is based on the JLC 960 as the documents from VC state this.

I'd really like to know more about this VC calibre and what watch it was used in but google has…

Can anyone tell me about Vacheron Constantin calibre 1201 – 8"3/4?