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Well we made it and the winding down process has started. Cheers, Vic

Here's a pic of the dial and hands just cleaned and relumed.

Hi Roger, I would go for a Landeron movement. You can pick them up for reasonable money on eBay as so many have been taken out of gold cases in the last few years. Another good reason is that spares aren't too hard to find. The first one I worked on was a Landeron 48.

Wow.. what an interesting piece, the outer dial can be use to get your bearing from a light house. Start when you see a red light and stop when you see white... the indicated reading will be the bearing to a reference light house. For air they may use a primitive VOR system as an alternative to light pulses. Very cool piece.

It might be worth sending this company and email first. http://oldswisswatches.com/Spares/Mido_Mechanical_Movements.htm

Personally I think that's ingenious and par for the course when repairing old watches! If you can't find or make a new part adapting what you have is the next best thing. Be interesting to see how you achieve this.

Hi Keith, are you intending to turn a new pinion on the original shaft then make a new jewel setting that will sit lower to match the shortened pinion? A couple of really tricky operations! On the subject of ethics, if it's your watch do what makes you happy. The only thing is if you sold it, you should really tell the buyer that the movement has been modified.

NO!!! Do not put watch in cleaner. Try putting it in the freezer and then try with the cots as WillFly suggested or a rubber case opening ring.

Hi Maurice, Lovely piece and the family connection is priceless. On the dial, I don't think that it is related to a compass but rather it counts off 6 minutes. In air navigation, a lot of calculation is done using blocks of 6 minutes because its easier to convert to units per hour (just times 10).eg if you've covered 8miles in six minute you been traveling at a rate of 80mph. I'm sure ther are more things that this watch can do but finding someone who actually used one is the problem! Anil

Looks like the crystal has hundreds of cracking sign, this may be acrylic or perspex but not glass. Dial face do has some blemish and patina to it. Until I do a tear down only then I can say for sure the condition. The stem snap off at the crown, is there a way to get it out. There is nothing to hold on to. I'll update this post with the strip down, but that has to wait for the case back tool. Got this online base on the serial number, not sure how correct it is. The Production Year of Your Rolex is 1954

Thought I would share my cheat sheet for lubrication. I plan to add a new tab to this for Chronograph parts as well as sections for date complications. I put this together from Mark's videos. If anyone sees something glaringly wrong, please let me know and I will fix it. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LiO9xEzvBK6C5kfLSarTTbtFMdQmeSaz1ozCHv4RDZg&authuser=0