A Nice Roamer For My Collection.

[Geo]

It arrived this morning all the way from Australia. Probably one of my best buys , the general condition is excellent and it is fitted with a new strap and all for £21. It's currently on my wrist and running well, I'll put it on the timegrapher later and see what the graph looks like.

[WillFly]

Nice Roamer - and I like Roamers! Is the movement an MST (Roamer's own manufacture?) If so, they're fine movements, particularly the ones from the 1960s.

[Geo]

It's an MST 520 and looks unmolested.

[WillFly]

Ah - mid-1970s.

[bobm12]

Mint and gorgeous, congratulations on a great acquisition Geo!

[Don]

Beautiful watch at an amazing price!

[Geo]

 

Here's a picture of the movement.

[noirrac1j]

Wowo Geo that is a good one! That is really , really nice. Now what is the detail of the hands? it looks like they are blunted or maybe they terminate in twin peaks?!? Simple beautiful. The red-tipped sweep seconds is fantastic. All I would suggest os to change the crystal--there's a small crack at 9. Finally,how does it run? Tha movement looks like a breeze to work on too!  Looks like the the complete package. By the way...what is the size?

 

JC

[WillFly]

The movement size for an MST 520 is 25.6mm. Looks great.

[clockboy]

Nice watch nice movement

[anilv]

You can clearly see that this movement is derived from an auto by the gaping 'hole' under the train bridge.

 

Nice and..... Elegant(?)...!

 

Anil

[Geo]

I would suggest os to change the crystal--there's a small crack at 9. Finally,how does it run? Tha movement looks like a breeze to work on too!  Looks like the the complete package. By the way...what is the size?

 

JC

Thanks for the comments guys, I really think I landed lucky with this one. i was almost put off buying it because of the low "Buy it now" price with the option to make an offer! You know what they say about "Looking too good to be true" ! Another thing that bothered me at first glance, I thought it was an auto with the winding parts removed, and having read Anil's post you can see why. I decided to buy it anyway because didn't have Roamer in my collection and at that price it would still have been a good deal for the spare parts.

Regarding your questions Joe, Will has confirmed calibre and size, the crystal is in perfect condition and the watch is keeping +40 seconds a day on my wrist. I have yet to check it on my timegrapher.

I also meant to say that the movement hacks when stating the time!

[Ewan32]

I do like the look of that watch - movement looks very elegant.

[noirrac1j]

With or without the autowinder, it is a great-looking watch.

 

JC

[Geo]

I have been wearing the watch since I got it, and it was found it was gaining 35 seconds a day. Tonight I used my Timegrapher to check it and got confirmation +35 seconds with a beat error of 5ms. Apart from that the graph looked quite good. I made a couple of adjustments and I'm well pleased with the result.

[ro63rto]

Very nice specimen. Pefect crystal and dial.

I prefer yours to mine as it has Roman numerals.

Hope I can get my Rotopower 44 MST436 working. Just need to find stem and crown somewhere that takes PayPal.

[ro63rto]

The movement size for an MST 520 is 25.6mm. Looks great.

According to roamer-watches.info/MST520.shtml its 27mm Edited November 23, 2014 by ro63rto

[WillFly]

According to roamer-watches.info/MST520.shtml its 27mm

Mmm... that's interesting - I was quoting Ranfft. 11.5 ligne. Ranfft's not always 100% accurate, of course.