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You will just have to settle for Big Benjamin, now that's what I call a big clock. Myself, I am trying to remember some of the little watches, I think they used to call them cocktale watches. Cheers, Vic

I'm not familiar with the Guda watch label - registered in Switzerland in 1958 - but the Peseux 330 movement in it is quite nice and was used in, among other makes, Ulysse Mardin. Spotted on the Bay this evening and snapped up - I was the only bidder. A nice, classic face and in good nick.

Last weekend, I completed my latest watch project, a(n) homage to the Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial, based on a Russian Vostok Amphibia, case style 120. I replaced the bezel with one from Dave Murphy that accepts Seiko-compatible inserts, added an insert from Dagaz watches, relumed the hands with a slight patina, and then made a new dial to match. Here is the finished result: Here's a before and after picture: The process for making the dial differed slightly from my previous project, where I had printed the artwork on photo paper which was glued to the dial blank. In this project, the artwork was done using transparent waterslide decal paper, applied in two layers to give a sufficiently dark black. The decals were applied on top of a layer of luminescent tape.

Hi, my name is simon, i can see you are a real watch doctors thats why i would like to ask you some questions.... Well i bought an old discontinued watch, the brand is freestyle it is an analog watch, but it has night vision, the watch was used, but the girl that sold the watch, went to a watchmaker and tried put new battery in, but the guy said night vision was burnedout also he tried with a new bulb, and nothing... what do you think about this? Is really possible change the bulb or lamp and still no night vision? The watch is ok it show the time and date but there is no light. Now there are a some model that are the same shape and brand the only difference about this is ,that one is analog and the other one is digital both has same night vision color, there is any way to change the night vision mechanism of digital watch to my analog watch??? This is the watch These are some similar model, maybe i can buy one of them and change the light vision system what do you

This section is dedicated to Timegrapher readings and what faults they indicate. I ask that if anyone has relevant information on the subject, and would like it included in this section, to get in contact with Mark, Geo, Willfly or Bob. Thanks, Geo.This is a post made by Morten on the 5th March 2015. Download attachment: image.jpg Click here to view the article

Hi Stu, I have also been on the look out for tech sheets for this family of movements for a Hamilton cal. 92 that I'm working on. Turns out it's a Buren cal. 1281 by another name. There really doesn't seem to be very much out there on these but below is what I did manage to find before I stopped looking. Hope it helps. Marc

Good man Morten, thank you for that! :)

Well, I had a look but I can't quite fathom how I can change my title to Huge Member!

The store I work for used to sell Tissot and I bought this 6-8 yrs. ago. It is an auto-matic and i haven't had to service it once. Knock on wood. I think it is the inability of the stores employees to properly romance the piece. Once you tell the client that Tissot makes parts for the majority of Swiss watches I know the client will gladly spend more on an auto then Quartz. Here, Tag and Rolex are sold too. But when you tell them that they use Tissot's parts and charge a fortune for the name the Tissot flys off the shelf. As a sales professional you have to know 110% of your product, but it only takes 3% to sell your product. I am a salesman shifting to the repair side of the business. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Also, i went to buy some D from the vitamin shop so I won't post twice! Lol Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I was taken by the dial on this watch. It's not the sort I usually go for - probably late '70s - but it's in fine condition. Quite difficult to photograph because it's so shiny, but I hope you get a reasonable impression of it. The Jovial brand was established in Switzerland by Fermand Droz in 1929. The watch marketing was aimed very much at the Middle East. The 17-jewel movement, as far as I can tell, appears to be a refinement of an FHF 684.

Found this sad artefact on the bay. Once again the setting spring had broken. It now runs, but damned if I can get a decent amplitude - 180 degrees is the best I can squeeze out of it. Before: After, with offending setting lever spring: In other news, I finally got a water-damaged rescue puppy of an omega 751 running very sweetly. I just need to find a dial...maybe...

Just looking back through my older posts. I finally finished my water-damaged Omega last week. New dial, new hands, new barrel, new barrel bridge, new barrel arbor, and loads of keyless work bits. It runs incredibly well despite the hard life it's had, and it has become my favourite watch.

Great work on the bezel, it's the little details like that the make for a quality job! But I got a question ... I looked everywhere on Cousins UK and couldn't find this grease ... is there a Moebius equivalent? :ph34r:

It transpired that the movement in the watch is a Fontainemelon 602 calibre with cylinder escapement. Here are a few photos, the first two were taken during the dismantling and the rest are the fruits of my labour. I replaced the mainspring and everything else was just given a good clean, lubricated then reassembled. After cleaning and assembly. The porcelain dial was in excellent condition with only the slightest of damage, luckily under the bezel where a knife has caught it in the past. There was also some brown staining from oil, this was easily removed with some household bleach. The crystal is original, easily identifiable by the small flat spot in the middle. I gave it the usual Autosol polish and it looks like new. I decided to leave all the historic marks on the case, and gave it a gentle polish with a silver cloth.

That would be nice, mine is 50 I'm exchanging her for 2 x 25... fair is fair! :)