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It's an Alpha. Made as a homage to Panerai Radiomir Chronograph, but not labelled or dialled the same to keep it from being a fake copy.

I recently acquired a Chinese chronograph wristwatch with a Seagull TY 2903 movement. The finish on the movement is excellent it is keeping 2 - 3 seconds a day. The complete watch new was £129, a Swiss watch with the same specification would cost many thousands of pound. Do I like it..........no.........I love it! Here is a photo of the graph with daily rate.

You don’t because its already done for you. You need Tungsten Carbide Gravers. This site is very good, tells you all you need to know. http://great-british-watch.co.uk/how-to-make-a-balance-staff/

You make b/staffs out of blued steel. You can buy blued steel rod from many watch suppliers.

I (and others) use a piece of ordinary silver steel (1.2210, 115CrV3), harden and temper the piece to light blue color. Frank

I'm in the process of re-assembling a 2824 and had exactly the same problem. I went with the Cousins suggestion (GR 3149X) and it fits fine. I wouldn't worry about getting an exact match. Cousins must have sold a lot of these for such a common movement so expect they're selling a suitable spring.

Only ones i have found is the springs on Ebay. There is a UK seller that have good prices

If you see a "Master Craft" mainspring winder on eBay I highly recommend you purchase it. I paid approx. £30 for my one & I use it for practically all of my watch repairs. The smallest barrel size it goes down to is 7.5mm which is a small ladies watch. It is really easy to use and is 100% reliable. You wind the spring into its own transfer plate and insert the same way as when fitting a new spring. I have posted some pics

I took a load of steel out of a high school machine shop that closed 20 years ago, lifetime supply, but any service centre should have 12L14. Online metals or metal supermarkets would be two that deal in small quantities. Its not suitable for a balance staff as its not a steel you can heat treat (for all effective purposes anyway). For staffs I would use a carbon tool steel like O1, cheap, readily available and easy enough to machine and heat treat. otoh I'm not exactly deeply steeped in watchmaking experience so I wouldn't be too shocked if there was something else that guys preferred

I hope it ends up as a true victory for Cousins partly for the reasons given by CB and partly because I would like to see a company that seems to think the law is something to be worked around to brings matters to their own largely self serving advantage, to the detriment of others and the industry as a whole, properly brought into line. I have nothing against any company that becomes a market leader because the goods they supply are much better than anything else on sale. However, when a company systematically sets about buying out and removing the competition with the intention of controlling and monopolising an entire industry in the most protectionist of self serving ways - well, I don't like it, something inside me screams about fairness and dishonour. At the risk of sounding dramatic their actions and attitudes are perhaps even coming close to being evil. Vic

I was just going to post a couple of my own pics, but this is perfect. @bernietheboltIf you need any parts, I have plenty except for balance/hairspring. I have only one extra of that. J

There is a slight problem with some of the citizen movements . They seam to be to large distance between the gears for the second hand pinion. Bad explain but hope you get in anyway. That makes the second hand stutter. Nothing you can do. The lever spring you can get to by taking of the rotor bridge.

Oh please, not a nightmare

Wearing a hand wind 'no-seconds' Kienzle. This is as simple as horology can get. Dial has some nice surface texture but the printed words have suffered a bit. It has a stainless steel case which I believe is a front loader as there is no visible gap where a case-opener can be inserted. On some front loaders, the bezel comes off and the movement comes out compete with the stem as there is a notch in the case but in this case (pun intended!) it looks like a 2 piece stem. Anyone taken apart one of these before? I am guessing that this is one of the watches where you have to align the stem in such a way that the movement can slip right out, as opposed to the type where you just pull on the crown. This watch will be getting a service soon as its running a bit slow (5 mins in 24hrs). The last time I wore it it was pretty much spot on. With 17jewels for a no-seconds movement I would imagine that it has capped escape wheel jewels and should be capable of good timekeeping. While Kienzle made some inhouse movments.. most of them were pretty coarse and looked more like clock movements.. not surprising as Kienzle was a big clock manufacturer. They also used some EB movements. Judging by the way this one winds and the sound of its 'ticks' (not to mention the 'Swiss' on the dial) I'm hoping there's a better quality movement inside! Will update when I get around to it. Anilv