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  1. There might also be some Seiko Sportsmen on their way . . . I really do have to stay away from eBay. . .They are like a poor man's Omega Seamaster.
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  2. The ingersoll is probably damaged beyond repair. Water went in everything is rusty, you cant even turn the hands, balance seems to be ok though. I am going to try to clean it anyway, its free to try. ? I love the TIMEX though. From the Sunny Scotland. ? I did not clean it properly - i was worried i never put it together again- just here and there, and a little bit of oil and it is running now. Crystal is cracked at 3 corners. Going to see if it can be replaced. (The TIMEX lot has not arrived yet)
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  3. Roger that, a not so good design. It's a bit of a pain in the ass to get the back cover on with a jumpy battery, but I managed and it runs! Thanks a lot guys!
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  4. Done with the big cuttings...time to do the fine little details.
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  5. Well, well, well. Here we go again: 11.5mm Vs 11.0mm. Aren't you glad that you do NOT need a new mainspring for this watch? Because if you did, there would be a dilemma ?: GR4186 or GR4208, or perhaps something else.. I don't know exact chemical composition, but I could bet (small amount) that there is no gold in it. Perhaps brass, or some other copper based alloy, plated with .. copper?
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  6. Let me see if I have a dial for the Ingersoll/Ronda 1217-21 I might swap for the Timex crystal. The Ronda is probably save-able. The keyless work is most likely corroded, but remove the balance and fork and soak the keyless work in penetrating oil, or dare I say it WD40 and it should loosen up. Moisture from sweat tends to be salty, and that can lead to some pretty nasty corrosion. It may look like it took a bath in H2SO4 but I suspect it was probably something more mundane. Sekondas are notorious for borked keyless work due to this very problem. Speaking of borked Sekondas, this is my latest impulse buy. Described as "SEKONDA 19 JEWELS USSR VINTAGE MENS MECHANICAL WRISTWATCH - Working when wound." I guess that is a little closer to the truth than the mechanical watches that are described as "needs battery". It should be a gold plated case and almost certainly a Raketa 2609 HA inside. So long as the keyless work hasn't turned to porridge then with a new crystal and a fresh band it will make a nice addition to the 404 club.
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  7. Bamm, @AndyHull we hit the jackpot. ? I found at least two and I think there is another one in original packaging I did not want to open. You are welcomed to one of them. The one i removed was really high domed, i liked the watch even with that one, but it was cracked so now it is looking better.
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  8. So, I measured the ID (inner diameter) of the mainspring barrel to 11.45 mm. However, as I didn't want to push the steel jaws of my calipers to hard into the barrel walls, I guess in reality it's more likely 11.50 mm. BTW, do you know what alloy the movement is made of? Color-wise It looks like a mix of gold, copper, and brass.
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  9. I have harden and temper the new steel part. Just installed back and everything seems to work good. I’m very happy about it. To be honest I never tough I will be able to make it out. Thank you for so many good advices I received here; greatly appreciated. This is embarrassing,... I just can’t find the shock spring anywhere. I know exactly where I put it; I just don’t know what happened with it. Perhaps my little princess (Ariana) got in to my desk. She love watching when I work on my watches. I search about 3 hours for it everywhere...no spring. For now I managed to put a dial washer to keep the ruby on place...I know it is not ideal but it is just temporary until I manage to find one. I start looking online but is no way I can find the model that I need...or perhaps I don’t know were to look for it. If anyone have a spare to share, I will very much appreciated. I will attach some images with the style of the shock spring. It looks like a star(3 corners)with a tiny little hole in the middle...no idea of the model name. I measured the diameter where the spring has to get in to hold the ruby in place and is about 3 mm; so I assume the spring has to be a little bit bigger(perhaps 3.10mm!). It may work the one I see on the second image (Seiko watch). Please help me out...or point me in the right direction where I can find one. Thank you
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  10. Welcome to the forum.
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  11. Thank you for your introduction and welcome to this friendly forum.
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  12. That stem is correct it is to help it to engage.
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  13. So, I used my jewelling set to correct the balance end-shake by increasing the depth of the chaton which carries the lower cap jewel. I also noticed that the same needed to be done for the escape wheel’s lower cap jewel as the polishing of the stone had caused the alignment of the pallet stones and escape wheel teeth to shift slightly. Finally, I rounded the lower balance pivot and burnished it. I’ve added some photos below to show the stages: - Original pivot with scoring and flattened end. - Pivot after polishing to a round profile. I used a soft polisher to do this to avoid leaving any abrasive embedded in the pivot. - Pivot after burnishing with a Bergeon “pivot rounding” burnisher which works surprisingly well. The balance swings for a few minutes under its just own momentum now, so negligible friction as far as I can tell. I’m getting around 225 degrees amplitude which I reckon is probably reasonably for an English lever escapement, but I’d be interested to read about what might be typical for this type and age.
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  14. Sehr gut! This means that someone fitted slightly weaker mainspring in the past: 0.12mm Vs 0.125mm as per GR catalogue, or Ranfft.de's Mainspring description 1.50 x 0.135mm.
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  15. This one just arrived the other day. It's the j model so I was pumped to get it for that price
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  16. Some recents: An Island diver and an unplanned return to Timex. . .
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  17. Picked up this lot because of the one in the center... ?
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  18. A 404 club basket case Sekonda to keep me amused in the long dark Sottish winter evenings. I have a pile of Sekonda spares waiting for some spare time, so hopefully I'll get some watches working out of the junk pile. This one even comes with a genuine period correct display case thrown in.
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  19. Depends on how it sits . Some you can just put in. Others you need to remove the settings to put a new one in. Which movement?
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  20. Probably NOT intentionally :-). Be aware of possibly cataloguing errors also. I ordered one part - received.. something similar, but not what I ordered. Had to send them photos and diagrams and ask for the right part to be shipped. They agreed there was cataloguing error and refunded my money, but stated that the part i was looking for has been discontinued. Sad, eh? This is not the end of the story as I cross-referenced Bulova to Buren and ordered Buren part for Bulova (identical movement). Funny, but they had plenty of Buren parts, which are perfect fit for Bulova. Happy end!
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  21. I believe these could go into the 404 club. Cant wait to get them. Lot1 £2.10/item all timex +4.50 P&P Lot2 and lot3 mix from the same seller £2.2/item + £5 P&P
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  22. Agreed IMHO. On the advice of a fellow member on here I bought a microscope early on and so glad I did, for all the reasons you mentioned and more. I would have missed lots of stuff that with my eyes I can't even see with my loupes. It also helped when interpreting peoples descriptions of parts, how they move, etc etc. On the Timegrapher note, do you know of anything in print describing its other functions besides basic? regs Mike
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  23. Apologies for being uncouth- I've not put in enough effort in the community lately due to a relocation, health issues, children schooling from home, and just the general "2020 malaise" but I've got another beauty in hand that I'd like to share. This is a Jardur Bezelmeter (model 960), probably from around 1945, which I picked up from eBay this week. It cost a pretty penny too but it's a piece that's been on my wishlist for a long time and this particular one ticked all the boxes. The Bezelmeter has an interesting history- from what I have read it was marketed primarily to aviators and military personal during the 1940's and according to legend was commonly sold through military post exchanges. Collectors seem to believe that the watches often served active service members. Advertisements from the period make it clear they were marketed as tool for the adventurous professional. Introduced more than a decade before the Navitimer and Breguet Type 20, it was certainly a watch ahead of it's time. It's quite a large watch at 38mm and exhibits all of those traits we usually associate with a Pilot Watch- luminous hands, blackened dial, tachymetre scale, and of course the chronograph function. Specialty features include the countdown bezel and 180 degree scale on the dial (useful to pilots executing a standard rate of turn). The movement is shock protected, the case is stainless steel and water resistant with a screw down caseback and cork seals; all fairly unusual features for a watch of this age. All the Bezelmeters I've seen house either a Valjoux 71 or 72 movement inside. I prefer the former as the earlier Valjoux 71 Bezelmeters had slightly larger cases and sported the more elegant cathedral hands. The movement in my Bezelmeter needs a service (naturally) as it only runs for a few seconds. I can't wait to get to it but unfortunately I've already got a line of other watches to clear out first.
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  24. A gents "UK Time Dundee" on the bench today. This is one of the earlier Dundee Timex watches as it has the "UK Time" branding, so probably mid to late 1950s This is what arrived in the post. Not very clean and that crystal is almost certainly made from pure unobtanium. The "works" are stamped Made in Britain, but later versions often had Made in Scotland on them. I have it running, but the winding mechanism is badly worn (who would have thought it, looking at that crown ), so it feels a little "gritty" while winding. I used UV cure phone glass glue to close up the cracks in the crystal, but it really needs to be replaced. None the less it ticks and tells the time, and I've removed the case klingons, and given everything a good shine, so it is a whole lot more presentable. I'll let it run for a bit and regulate it. Another piece of local history joins the 404 collection.
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  25. You need a pallet setting tool such as this: Also find attach this article on the procedures on how to fit them. pallet folk jewl setting.pdf
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  26. Not Flume? They say Deliveries to foreign countries: Exception: extra orders, Dangerous Goods and Freights. Postage packing EU : 10,00 € Expensive and hopefully they won't classify a single battery as dangerous - the world has gone crazy about that. The problem can be to get them to open an account, they are however one of the oldest suppliers.
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