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Purchased this today from a retired surgeon that said he couldn’t carry on restoring clocks any more in his retirement because of failing eye sight, he just kept bringing out boxes Pultra advertised as a 17/50 but turned out to be a 17/70 , 2 crosslides 3 tool rests fixed steady lots of collets , full set or step chucks, full set of ring chucks , full set of bell chucks plus loads more, he had a working mardrive as well but I said I didn’t want that but I did take the overhead gantry. That should keep me quiet restoring that according to my wife , she knows me so well after 50 years. Dell -
By RichardHarris123 · Posted
You'll be better starting a new thread, this one is 8 years old. -
So the bridge has probably been swapped at some time. This is what a 612 should look like. https://watch-movements-archive.com/watch-movement/smiths-612/ -
Hi, I just obtained a Kinetic 5M42-0E39. A lot of great info in this thread. For those of you that worked on yours what did you do for a movement holder. There are some out there for specific Seiko movements but I don't see any for the 5M42. Just measure the diameter of the movement and do it that way? Any luck with the original band replacement? It looks like Watch Plaza has the rubber straps that look like the original minus the metal bits for band and clasp. Thanks! -
Thinking of best fit did we ever look at fingerprinting this movement? Then identification of watches? This actually comes up a lot on this group of people especially with older watches thinking they're going to identify some vintage no name whatever and know they're not going to. But even more important books like bestfit only exist to supply spare parts. This means the movement had to have been made in sufficient quantities and exported out of Japan for a company like bestfit to supply spare parts. So simplistic rule would be unless parts were readily available cross reference books to identify it for finding parts will not exist. One of things I was curious about I went back to the first page and part of the problem is your watches so much older than the one that launched this discussion if you look at the original posting picture it's a screwless balance with a shock protected system yours is much much older. Then of course older also brings up the problem of parts identification books because they were really only made in specific time spans and do not cover an infinite quantity of years unfortunately although bestfit Did have some older books but if I remember right I don't think Seiko shows up even until basically the last of their books because it comes back to they weren't exported out of Japan insufficient quantities for anyone to care about spare parts unfortunately
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