It never ceases to amaze me what you can stumble across whilst looking up something else on the web. I was looking for help on replacing the failed hydraulic disc breaks on my 15 year old mountain bike, but instead discovered a gem of a video on how bicycles were made in Britain back in 1945. Enjoy the video if you have nothing better to do for the next 17 minutes and 22 seconds.  

i found someone that used to do it and he told me not to bother, you may be lucky if its just the bulb!

More like a Timex M66 See here for an incomplete list of Timex movements with pictures. -> https://17jewels.info/movements/t/timex/  

I have two that are DOA ,  can someone recommend a good  troubleshoot/repair person to breath life back into them?

Interesting, when you talk about the price being preserved are you saying having the dial redone will not affect the price? And I agree these markings to the dial do not look natural to me they either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk