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My recent flea market trip yield this great 'Oriental Watch'.  I is a housed in a 3 piece case and has a nice jeweled movement inside.  After a little bit of work it is running quite well.

I cannot find much information on it other than there is an Oriental Watch Ltd. located in Hong Kong.  My thinking is this was an in store product sold sometime back in the 1940's.

Anyone every see or hear of this maker?124309673_2747924548752666_245096764419682598_n.thumb.jpg.e245e1a4f6eb2602204a64d5b30c9399.jpg124243340_851334538740179_1045806443415670743_n.thumb.jpg.cfe9c0da9f719bbefa754bd096b422bf.jpg

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3 minutes ago, AndyHull said:

It the mainly come from Italy, then...

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.. this may be the original  source. As to who actually made the movements, I cant tell from the picture, but I couldn't find a matching Omega, so perhaps that is less likely after all.

Mmmmm, very interesting 

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On 11/10/2020 at 7:11 AM, JerseyMo said:

My recent flea market trip yield this great 'Oriental Watch'.  I is a housed in a 3 piece case and has a nice jeweled movement inside.  After a little bit of work it is running quite well.

I cannot find much information on it other than there is an Oriental Watch Ltd. located in Hong Kong.  My thinking is this was an in store product sold sometime back in the 1940's.

Anyone every see or hear of this maker?124309673_2747924548752666_245096764419682598_n.thumb.jpg.e245e1a4f6eb2602204a64d5b30c9399.jpg124243340_851334538740179_1045806443415670743_n.thumb.jpg.cfe9c0da9f719bbefa754bd096b422bf.jpg

Looks like an as movement 

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5 minutes ago, AndyHull said:

It does. It is somewhat similar to  an AS1220 or an AS1009

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http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&AS_1220

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&AS_1009

Yes it does, I had a look in the official catalogue of Swiss watch repair parts and there is nothing on oriental watches, Mmmmm. 

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