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This is a nice watch. The British Government contracted to buy several thousand American and Swiss pocket watches for the military at the start of WW2 as they had poor stocks. They didn't actually specify movements as the G.S.T.P. (General Services Trade Pattern) standard specified so many jewels, such-and-such a face, etc. So the watches purchased and issued might have Waltham or Elgin movements from the US, or Cyma, Leonidas, Omega, Rolex and other movements from Switzerland. The pheon (broad arrow) marks it as British Government property, and the G.S.T.P. mark and the serial number mark it as probably Army issue. I forget the meaning of the individual serial number codes at the moment. Cyma/Tavannes made excellent movements and still do. Worth getting the back off and giving us a pic, I reckon!

This pocket watch has just been given to me by a friend, it belonged to her father who had it with him during WW 2. Although it's been in a drawer for years it came to life with just a couple of winds and ran for 36 hours keeping good time but I don't know much else, any more info would be interesting. Many thanks, Phil.

Thanks Rob, that's really helpful, I'll give him a try. Phil. :thumbsu:

ive got this problem on the as 1906, seems to be common with these, tighten the cannon pinion and all will be good.. if this is the case you can prob see that the hand moving is too loose..

90% of the ttimes when yoy remove the calednar plate the hammer and its spring will move out of position evenif they worked before.if the hour counting wheel worked the wholle time the hour hammer spring was not installed correctly or it was upside down(it has a up side :D br emso p.s: sent from my s****y phone so sorry for typing mistakes

Just out of curiosity were the third, fourth and fifth best the same as the second best. My wife just asked whether it matches up with what your other half thought was the best thing about the honeymoon - actually she had that certain smile on her face which makes me think carefully about what she says - . Cheers, Vic

:D Geo behave, I nearly choked on my cornflakes

David, most of us would rather see a movement than a dial! :)

Hi Scottster and welcome to the forum :) From the information you've given Marc is spot on. Tightening the canon is easy to get wrong, so as he suggested do it gently and in steps for your first attempt. Don't panic however that all is lost if you go too far with it ... spares for AS movements are still easy to get from Old Swiss Watches, and Sudarson will offer you the right part for the right price ... highly recommended. Remember, we only learn by doing ... and some of the best lessons come from our mistakes.

Bob, Yeah I found it very interesting that the Valjoux company sold the equipment they used to make the 7734 to the USSR. Poljot then used that equipment to make the 3133. Or so says this site: http://www.strela-watch.de/watch_movements/3133-maktime-poljot/ Don't worry, I plan on doing a full write up/pics for every movement I service, unless of course it has already been covered on here.

Sorry, the order of the images isn't quite right - pretend that you can't see the last one.