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Have you tried this company, https://www.balancestaffs.com/product.php?all=long With this company you can put in dimensions and do a search as well.

Just wanted to share that I finished building my first watch. It runs on a Miyota 8215. Here is a picture.

Same company

Center arbor looks snapped, save the canon pinion.

Hi Melvin and welcome to the happy factory and complement you on your Speedmaster.

Welcome to the forum! That's a beautiful Speedmaster

Swiss I expect.

Hi everyone. Here are the links to the parts. Links https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F273866714827 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F183819455737 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F182507476364 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F172822689288

I wear a Rolex DateJust from the 1960's as my daily wear. It does nots have quick set date and at the end of the month it requires manual intervention to correct the date. My point being, having a Month wheel that is user set would not be at all out of line. By the way, this is a very cool watch. I want to follow your progress so post pics as you go if possible.

Most recent service from non running. Trafalgar instantime jump hour, different to the usual brick and unusually with date complication and with sweep seconds hand.

Wasn't it a stem he was looking for . Not balance staff? If so check windingstems.com instead of balancestaff.com https://www.windingstems.com/product.php If you need a balance staff i have that.

There's a good chance the month doesn't advance automatically but needs to be set each month. Can you unscrew and remove the day and month discs to see how it looks underneath?

This rather forlorn looking thing is a Waltham. The logo was so poorly printed that it washed right off when I cleaned the dial.It came with an AS1686 with a rusty keyless works,which I swapped out with one previously serviced.the spiedel band came with the watch it has a '63 production date. I had to remove 5 links. The previous owner must have been a pretty large man.

Great! Same stem release setup as in the video so. Best of luck!

Hello guys, After two days testing movement on the bench it looks ok. Power reserve, day/date changing, accuracy something about +/- 15s/day. Now it's time to take care about dial and hands. Please let me know - what colour of chrono hands should be - orange or yellow? In the web I found pictures for both option so I am confused. VID_20190903_220105.mp4 VID_20190903_220746.mp4 VID_20190903_220746.mp4

I thought this could help you, although it's not the same watch/movement.

Just went to a wedding and decided to wear my vintage Heuer Ref. 73473, circa 1971-72. This watch is very unusual when compared to other Heuers, and not many made. But interestingly not very sought after by Heuer collectors. As for me, I love the Classic 70's look. It is powered by the Valjoux 7734 and fitted on a vintage beads and rice bracelet.

Today is my vintage 1950s Gallet Multichron 45 fitted on a vintage 50s Gemex rice bead stainless bracelet.

That is in the nature of the game. Experience only comes from practice. I actually don't think it is that bad. I have certainly seen a lot worse, that have been salvageable. There is a slight art to this. Try to imagine what will happen to the whole spring, if you straighten a particular part. Now try to imagine what will happen to the whole spring if you increase the bend on that same part. You have to understand that every change affects the whole geometry. This is why it is sometimes easier to remove the spring and work on a piece of paper. I tend to work with the balance in the watch, but there are no hard and fast rules to this, other than to be patient, take your time, think carefully before you make a change, and use good magnification and good light. Some people use a couple of pins, others use tweezers, I've heard of people using sewing needles with the end of the eye ground away to turn them in to a two pronged fork. Whatever you use though, gently does it, and don't panic if you make a wrong move, just figure out what you did wrong and carefully undo it. What have you got to loose other than a bit of your spare time? After all the thing is already broken.