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Here's a screen shot of recent sold Ascot listings on Ebay. You can see your exact chrono paired with another watch for 15 pounds. So I will eat my hat, they are valuable.

I also have envy over your very valuable watches.

This evenings victim is a Seiko from December of 1970. The only issue other than being a daily wear for some mod rocker back in the day is the crown has no click. Winding, time and date changes as normal but something is amiss in the keyless work. My fabulous-ly inexpensive tool for unscrewing casebacks will not shrink small enough to capture the grooves so a moments thought and some rearranging of the bits allows us to get started. Checking the inside of the back for service marks shows no entry, screw heads seem undisturbed by other rookies such as myself and of course I have forgotten to set the time to allow easy removal of the hands. Reinserting the crown and stem and using hand pullers with plastic bag leaves the dial in pretty good shape even with my clumsy handling. Of course you folks see it although I didn't: the adapter ring is still around the movement barring access to the dial feet screws. Looking around we see two screws at the tip of the tweezers that look like they will do the job. Sure enough the ring drops away and the foot screws can be loosened on either side of of the dial. Removing the dial while looking for a washer underneath we see the broken spring end laying on the date wheel. Of course all this manipulation without a movement holder will probably cause more trouble later. But at least without the dial getting squished we now secure this tiny movement a little more properly. Removing the weight reveals the winding mechanism. Depressing button just above the crown allows stem to be replaced, then held while holding the click just below the stem to take the small residual power away after all this abuse. Amplitude seems quite minimal but not unexpected since I've probably squished things pretty good a few times up to this point. Feeling pretty intimidated at this point, put everything away until tomorrow night. See you then!

Just got this in the mail. Needs a new mainspring. Center wheel is gold!!! Plated ?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Wow! Thanks, that’s very helpful!

HI that is entirely possible, with trim pots exposed to the air they dome times need a wipe and re setting i was a popular job on tape readers and card reader.

Best I can suggest is trawl ebay for similar watches and use the advanced function to show sold only watches as to ensure you find out what people are willing to pay, not watch other people want to sell for.

Welcome to the forum.

Really you think there is a case of envy here? Now that's hilarious! Anyway, everyone is free to like and even "find value" in whatever he wants. I suppose there are other forums better suited for the discussion than this.

More of a subdued blue.

Hi what you have there a Seiko 4205A Automatic. the small writing on the case will be some other repairers code mark as you guessed initials MB date 12 year 88. Are you going to service it

Wearing my recently acquired Blue dial Timex Sprite. It's a handsome little watch, a 1979 vintage. I have so many blue dial watches, I may create a new topic on just those, lol. All this Sprite needed was an overall polish, otherwise it's running great. Before: After:

Another jeweled westclox. Snap back cheapo case .Jeambrun 26d movement. Any easy to work on caliber that regulates nicely.

A collection of Timex 100's -

I'm looking forward to this very much! Cheers, Bob

You do need to open them They have a slightly different cap than a standard barrel. Much the same as a valjoux 7750 barrel. The cap has a rim which extends right down to the barrel teeth tricky to open without damaging the barrel teeth. I find an extremely sharp razor blade is perfect for opening the cap. On these seikos the mainspring has to come out as they are usually in an awful mess. Also - note the orientation the mainspring is wound in. It will be the reverse of most Swiss watch barrels.

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why vibrate a spring?