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As far as I know this model has not been on sale in the UK, it would not have mattered if it had been as it's around the £2,000 mark It's like a tour de force of watchmaking.

Hi all... Finally, I took the time to reassemble this missing piece on my 6119C movement ( Changed and Just rebuilted the automatic rotor in it )...I thank you Ash145 for the movement.. later i will oïl the movement but for now my Seiko works great...she keeps an excellent time.. about 5 or 6 seconds a week not much for this older Watch hey !..... ;)

I saw this a while back & thought of all the Hamilton fans on the forum ! :D http://youtu.be/508-rmdY4jQ

Yes - it was a file with all my watch photos in it! Anyway, here's the Gruen:

I have an old verge pocket watch from 1759. It's catch phrase should be...."Clunk click every tick" !

I have a Tanglewood 5 string bass. The action is excellent and the tone is awesome. I got it about 10 years ago from cash converters :D Great guitars. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

+1 on on what Will has said. Take plenty of pics of each stage of the tear down. Group related components and their screws in separate containers (or compartments of the same container) according to function and try not to mix them up. As you start to become more familiar with the architecture of watch movements this becomes less important, and you will actually find that a lot of really experienced watchmakers can just put everything together in the same pot and still get it all back together in the right place. Make a note of whether or not the screws for any particular part are all the same or if they are different lengths, also if the heads are different so that you can put the correct screw back in the correct location. Alternatively do as Mark has suggested in one of his videos and replace the screw in its correct location in the main plate or bridge once the part has been removed. This is an important consideration that I think may well be missed by a lot of fledgling tinkerers to start with (it certainly didn't occur to me straight off) judging by the state of many of my ebay "spares or repairs" bargains when I first open them up. Quite often though, where a bridge is secured to the main plate with say 3 screws, you will find that one of them is slightly different in length, or has a slightly shorter head. There is a reason for this; put a screw that is too long in the wrong place and it pokes out the other side of the main plate and potentially fouls components in the calendar or keyless works. It's very easy to be so focused on what you looking at that you lose sight of what's happening on the other side of the movement. Then when you get to reassembly, make sure that your tear down photos are on a screen in front of you, and just work through methodically in the reverse order and all should go fine. Once you have finished and the watch is running again, put all of those pics into a folder labelled with the make and calibre of the movement and save it in an archive somewhere. Before long you will have built up your own highly detailed movement reference database which can be a really valuable resource.

Great topic choice. Patek has to be up there for me as well as RW smith, Philip Dufour or FP Journe. I like on mans vision for anything. Someone who has dedicated heart and soul into pursuing what they believe to be the ultimate they are able to make at that moment. Its more important to me than looks or materials used. But that comes after a lifetime interested in Horology and some education on what is available and by who. Like many for me My first Rolex meant more than simply a nice watch. Funnily enough its not about the name with Rolex. Its about the visions of Hans Wilsdorf and what was created from that. Long before I knew they were a famous watch brand I stared in Jewellers windows in Exeter as a child at the Day Date or Submariner in wonder and hoped one day to have a Rolex. There was something just right about the design of them for me and still is, even though they are not hand made like the watches I mention above. I love the one I have for the simple reasons that it tells time well and accurately, my model, the Air King goes largely unnoticed by the general population, it does not scream ROLEX like the all gold ones do. Its comfortable and just feels really well thought out to me. I guess its heritage does boil down to one mans vision as well. On another forum I belong to only this week we were talking about the snobbery this hobby can get. All of us love our cheapest watches the same as we do our most expensive ones. I think for true lovers of horology cost does not matter, its other things that do. I have yet to see a real enthusiast buy a watch on name only. Like our mutual love for Patek, I bet your the same as me, its not the name but the workmanship, history and human component in its making that matter. And I thing after all that ramble for me it all boils down to that. The human connection. That a person or persons sat down and from thought to construction had a tangible effect on that which I wear in my pocket or on my wrist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dthD3gOfksU Speaks for itself... :jig:

It really depends on what you want, a Quartz watch is a bit like a PC, soul less but very efficient. A mechanical watch seems to be very much alive and probably has the life force and DNA. I watched a video of a Rolex technician fitting the balance wheel and bridge, as it went into place the watch came to life, no doubt in my mind that it's a living thing. If I was not so careful with money I'd have rushed out and bought one there and then. RogerC

OMG...Watches and Blues; don't ya just love youtube. ;)