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Just Keeping The Collection Ticking Over - Majex And Pierce

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While I await the wearing of my Marvin on Christmas Day, I've been keeping my hand in on eBay... Picked up another Majex - nothing out of the ordinary but quite cheap - and a nice Pierce. Pics below are: (1) Majex face (2) Majex movement (3) Pierce face (4) Pierce movement. I suspect the seconds hand on the Pierce is a replacement, but I'm not too worried at the moment. Pierce made really good movements - this one is Swiss and very nice, but I'm not sure of the calibre. It's stamped with the Pierce name, but that means nothing. I think I can see the figures "29" under the balance - which is not an original Pierce calibre - so there'll be a little detective work to do there at some stage...

 

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I've done very little myself - Christmas is with us and so are presents for family - and I've also been forking out for the costs of a CD production run. Me and my mate Chris have out together an album which we're hoping to sell at gigs, and I have to recoup the outlay on that before I buy more watches.

 

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Just done a bit of research on the Majex and the Pierce movements. The Pierce is, naturally enough, a Pierce movement - calibre 103. By a weird coincidence, the Majex is also a Pierce movement - calibre 105! Pierce always used their own movements in their watches, whereas Majex used various stock movements from other manufacturers. My other Majex - the gold one - uses an Enicar 1292 movement. However, as far as these two Pierce movements are concerned, the 103 is slightly superior in engineering and finish to the 105.

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