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I recently acquired this really nice Bulova Jet Clipper.... As I said , It was nice but needed a little TLC . It was advertised as running good , just cleaned and serviced . Also It came on a period Spiedel watchband and had a decent crystal . Unfortunately it would only run for a bit , and needed an inspection and service . It's a front loader , so after pulling off the crown and the top of the 2 piece stem , and the crystal , I got a better look at what I had . The dial is a beautiful scallop sea shell design that has a soft pearlesent sheen,...subtle on the pearlesent . The lume on the hands was starting to fall off , and all three hands had signs of rust present . The movement had some dirty lube in the stem area but the rest of the movement was in top shape . I proceeded to clean and service the movement and was pleased to see good results on my timegrapher . I removed the lume and the rust from the hands , cleaned and polished them , and relumed the hour and minute hand . I also sanded and polished the crystal , but it didn't take much to make it look like new . I like the little spade arrow on the short side of the second hand . I found a decent beads of rice bracelet in my stash and the watch was looking and running good . As good as it was looking to me , I wanted to up the ante . In my searches I had come across a vintage Spiedel Calendar watchband called Romunda by Spiedel . It is stainless steel and has leather looking links . The calendar has 7 faces that moves the 1st from Sunday to Saturday by rolling the calendar backwards or forward with 2 setting wheels . The calendar cost $10.95 when it was first introduced ,...I paid $25.00 ,....but had to have it for this watch . The lug width on the watch is 18mm , and the watchband is 19mm , so I had to do some body and fender work to make it fit . Also the band was too loose on my wrist so I had to remove 2 sets of links to fit me . That was fun . All in all , I am very pleased with the total look of the watch and band . I think it looks pretty darned spiffy . Like something from "Mad Men " .

sper Thank you for your help and amazing generosity. Some pictures of the finished watch.

is it a quartz inside ?

I don't think a Chromebook is going to work for you, since it runs ChromeOS and not Windows. Furthermore, you can't install ordinary software on a Chromebook, just Google Chrome apps. I'd suggest getting your hands on a used Acer or eMachines netbook (e.g. Acer Aspire One D255) from a few years back, and buying a new high-capacity battery for it on eBay. The screen resolution on these is 1024x600, which (not coincidentally), is exactly the size of the Watch-O-Scope window. The above is pretty much exactly what I use when I travel. I upgraded mine to 2GB RAM, a solid state disk, an internal Bluetooth module, and Lubuntu Linux. The extended battery I purchased lasted for about 9 hours of constant use when new a few years ago, and is down to 6 or 7 hours now.

Just thought I'd drop in with some updates. I've been working on some new features, and also doing some investigative work. Looking carefully at the noise profile that one typically gets with an amplifier, it seems that most of the noise occurs at integer multiples of the AC mains frequency. So even after filtering aggressively using Watch-O-Scope's builtin 800Hz-8kHz 24dB/octave filter, I get significant noise at 840Hz, 900Hz, 960Hz, 1020Hz, etc. (60Hz mains here), with the even multiples being stronger than the odd ones. None of this is terribly surprising since rectified AC has a fundamental frequency twice that of the original sine wave, and lots of harmonics (since it's no longer a sine wave, but rather a repeating series of McDonalds logos). The ideal filter would be some sort of comb filter, filtering out exactly the troubling frequencies. I'll need to investigate how feasible that would be to do in software.

I think you have your answer JD!

Hmm lets see, well there's just nothing right about it what so ever, it's a complete turd. Bezel from a GMT incorrect, date window magnification way off, hour markers wrong, dial wrong, I think your having a laugh

Man if that was an Omega Constellation I would chime right in... The bezel colour and finish look to be very poor quality...almost garish for a Rolex. But then I have only ever seen pictures of a Rolex and never had one in hand... also on the underside of the top link of the bracelet the finish looks very rough and course. Need a better front shot to asses the dial better...Also the finish on the bracelet is again very course, although the bracelet could have been changed. It almost looks like the lume pip for the bezel is not centered on the triangle?? perhaps the angle of the shot...or not... Something about that bezel...is the center tine of the Rolex crown in line with the 12 marker triangle? I say fake, but only going by a poor picture and no experience and the fact that there are more fake Omega's and Rolex's than there are the real thing. Of course opening her up will tell the tale Ron

It's a rubber mat, but thanks:) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

It's pronounced like skwah lay. Nice work.

Generally any type of dial, first. And second, specifically this Longines. Some lettering is already gone so I don't want to damage it but at the same time it seems it could use some TLC. Or should I do nothing with it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

very nice job JD......very nice tablecloth pattern btw...would make me dizzy...

I believe that's a Citizen Aerochron. Interesting piece.

Don't worry, this is the last part. As I was wrapping up the movement service, I noticed that the automatic winding will not work. I found out that the pawl lever and the second reduction wheel are worn out. Compare the worn out parts in the left and the replacement parts in the right. After replacing the said parts, I went on to work on replacing the crystal, cleaning the case and bracelets and re-luming the hands. Yeah, I could have done better on the hands. The lume was too thick. I then installed the hands, placed the movement inside and demagnetized the watch. And here's the before and after shot. All done for a friend for free. :D I hope you enjoyed it. Please let me know any suggestion on how I can improve on my hobby.