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Hi guy’s! Just a quick question for you! Would this legion watch have a case tube fitted to it at some point! Cal 1950/51 movement! If so does anyone know how i size it up for a new crown & as/st winding stem! Cheers!

 

 

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Hi guy’s! Just a quick question for you! Would this legion watch have a case tube fitted to it at some point! Cal 1950/51 movement! If so does anyone know how i size it up for a new crown & as/st winding stem! Cheers!
 
 
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I suspect it originally had a stem tube, but I cannot be certain.

Assuming the movement is an AS 1950 then according to Ranff the stem is a W3086

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&AS_1950

This (also affording to Ranff) also fits the rest of these members of the  AS 1XXX family

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family:
without/with date respectively:
1800/1801: 10.5''', 18000 A/h
1802/1803: 11.5''', 18000 A/h
1940/1941: 10.5''', 21600 A/h
1950/1951: 11.5''', 21600 A/h
signatures: AS, ST, AS/ST

There is at least one seller on ebay at the time of writing this, but hunt around for those other movements and you may find more. The crown I suggest would be anything that fits the stem and matches the colour and style of the watch, since we don't know what the original looked like.

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