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  1. well I'm always very dubious of these downloadable tech manuals it depends what information they are imparting most technical documents of old where basically a list of parts for the movement they covered, at the time if you could service a chronograph then you could service any other chronograph its only in the late 60's early 70's when automatic chronograph came into being either micro rotor or full rotor that technical documents became more useful and had more information to impart, most of what these people sell can be found on the web if you search hard enough https://watchguy.co.uk/technical/Venus/ save your money
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  2. The point of Cousins "fight" is not about you, me or anybody else being in the position to cherry pick work, hobby entertainment or even live happily without touching watches at all. It's about a shameful practice that goes against all principles of "equal access", and fair competition. Have a read on their letters, courts papers and try to put things in perspective. BTW I haven't seen Cousins pledging donations.
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  4. I knew I’d seen that marking somewhere... Here you go http://oldswisswatches.com/Spares/complete_listing/AM_72.htm It’s known as the Ebauches Trust mark... and once you know that it’s easy to find, along with a great reference site for makers marks that I’ve not seen before https://www.thiemard.info/horlogerie/tools/poincons-listing.php?lang=en And if my German isn’t misleading me, this page would suggest that the combination of marks you have with the AM in a triangle and the Trust mark was only used between 1936 and 39 (hopefully living in Munich you have a better command of the German language than I do) https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Ebauches_SA I don’t know how you have identified the correct mainspring from Flume, except by measuring the old one? Often old watches have an incorrect spring fitted, so unless you have a positive identification of the calibre number, you can use the “reverse engineering” calculator on this page to check http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/mainsprings.php Good luck finding a way to remove that broken screw. If you have access to a lathe you may try to drill it out... it may just catch on the drill and unscrew if you’re lucky!
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  5. Seiko has outstanding quality. That probably has never even SEEN Switzerland before.
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  6. I have one too. I sometimes use a 6mm spacer if I want to reduce the field strength on what I consider to be a "delicate" watch upon switch on. Mine has a transformer using just the E`s, The I`s were never fitted for this application. As you move the watch away do so slowly. The magnetic field reduces by inverse square law with distance.
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