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Really enjoying these right now, so thought you guys would do the same.. https://www.youtube.com/user/rwsmithwatches/videos

Good find Don, thanks for posting.:)

Glamour shot.

The Bradley is attached below although it still needs some cosmetic work but it is now happily ticking away and thus far seems to be keeping good time. Maybe you can find the same model Bradley you had for sale somewhere and refurbish it as a project? My first ever watch as a boy was a Timex which is probably why I have a bit of a soft spot for them even now.

This web site is out of stock but does state that it is a helicodial stem http://www.windingstems.com/eta.php the info size is below.

They were out on a limb with that price! :D

Re the novodiac. You can make your own tool out of plywood. 1. Get the outside diameter the same size as the inner part of the jewel setting. 2. Make a divot in the end. 3. To use..get one leg in the groove, another in the opening [one more leg will be on top of the edge]. Put your tool on top of the nobodies spring and turn. Works for Seiko too! Anil

It would help if you could post pictures of the movement. More than likely someone will recognise and be able to date it.

They sure are, this one lives at the bottom of my staircase, he's 41 years old now! :)

Well we have northeren light warning - Aurora Borealis so if You are lucky look up after eight,ish :-) If You visit Bergen do take the "Norway in a nutshell" tour, it will give You the mountains, the fjords and a whole lot of amazing places and as SSTEEL mention valleys. Trolls are everywhere You have to look at the right places Geo :-) See the Troll hunter trailer on U tube - thats a cool movie.

I was asked to look at a Sekonda that was running for approx. 8/9 hours & then stopping but would run with again with encouragement. When I opened the watch it was extremely dirty But I noticed that under the mainspring barrel there was wear on the plate. After reassembling the barrel & bridge it was apparent that the barrel bridge hole for the barrel was very badly worn. The answer was to re-bush the hole. I had some clock bushes & luckily had a bushing that had the correct size hole. The problem was however the plate was only 0.373mm thick so effectively I had to make a bushing that was not much more than a washer. I turned the bush down on my lathe to a reasonable working thickness & then reamed out the hole for the new bushing (3.00mm). Then I fitted the bushing using my staking set & tested the hole was correct. After a lot of broaching using a smoothing broach achieved a good fit. I then removed the new bushing & using a soft piece of wood as a base filled & burnished the bush to the correct thickness. Then I finally pushed the new bushing in with my staking tool but added for safety some lock tight to it,s edge as it is a very thin bushing. Job done just the watch to re-assemble.