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  1. szbalogh, hijacking a thread is considered bad form. Why not start your own?
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  2. I don't know if its the photo but there looks to be a couple of kinks in the spring, if so replace it. The end is good it doesn't look as if a piece broke off, That little hook is the part that the spring presses against in order to stop the spring from slipping around in the barrel. if the end had broken the end would be rough, the broken part would be in the barrel. If all is well give it a clean put it back in and lubricate it.
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  3. Yep looks manly to me its not pretty enough for a women's either from that time period 1930's a women's watch usually had a single bracelet type band. I have seen some women's watches with sub second dials though from the 30's
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  4. Wearing a Tissot hand-wind today...powered by a cal 27-2. Most of the Tissots from the 50s were in base metal cases, this one is in stainless steel. Dial is in pretty good shape as well, hand could be better..
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  5. My late uncle was wearing this watch when his army patrol was attacked in Ireland in the early 70s. The strap broke and it rolled around in the bottom of the personnel carrier, it was recovered eventually but didn't work any longer. I was given it to look at, and after a little tlc it is running again...next step glass and then a strap...then it goes to my cousin. video-1456875143.mp4
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  6. Jules Borel's site is generally pretty good for looking up parts equivalents and to identify the base or most common movement in a series. In this case however, the part you want is not listed against that movement... however they do list the minute cock, and by clicking this you can see all the other movements this part is used on. It is a fair bet that the same screws are used to hold it in place on the other movements: http://cgi.julesborel.com/cgi-bin/matcgi2?ref=Xb\D] I can't see the individual screw listed in any of my usual haunts, so you may be best buying a scrap movement from the same series. This may seem like a slightly more expensive solution, but you could spend a long time looking otherwise. For example: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Monte-Swiss-ETA-1080-watch-movement-dial-running-/231964492855?hash=item3602294437:g:MI8AAOSwrhlXTzcm
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  7. I'm a newb that has been through TimeZone Watch School Level 1 and am working on Level 2. I hope to be able to turn this hobby into a revenue stream far off in retirement. So I have some time to practice. As a Kansas Citian, I have the privilege of being within a drive of one of the coolest watch shops in the Midwest: Cool Vintage Watches. My favorite watch in my collection is a blue Hamilton Pan Europ Day-Date.
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  8. He wants to practice in taking out and putting back jewels and asked the way to go about such a task and what tools he would need. It is most important to use the correct tool for the job, so if you are replacing jewels or resetting them into a watch plate or balance cock you use a jewelers staking tool set.
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  9. Thanks, Endeavor. I definitely share your affinity for the Radio Room. It took me a while to find that one, with the off center anchor and date--from a vendor with a website only in Russian and prices in rubles. I changed the hands the other day because the original ones were hard to read against the white background and red second hand got lost in the red sections of the dial.
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  10. Time for a just received Russian Watch!!
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  11. @Cad101 I feel your pain, I have three in that state as well. This project turned out well IMO, wearing her today:)
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