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Hi and welcome to the forum   The movement you quote is now obsolete and therefore parts will be at a premium.  Cousins uk  quote a complete movement as an alternative   VD57  for £10 50 complete. So It makes sense to replace the complete movement and scrap the oiginal for parts. The movement is most probably made by Hattori/seiko/epson who are all the same company but different divisions.

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Hello everyone.

I am new in this forum, have asked ones for parts for my flightmaster, was adviced to look at VD57 instead of repairing my original watch. Have search around and find no V657-8120 watch or parts on ebay. That makes me more upset to fix my own  one. I have spareparts list and wonder where to order parts broken or missed.

Any good ideas?

BR

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Hi  According to Cousins uk list all versions of the V657 are obsolete so the alterative is the VD57 or trawl Ebay in the hope of a donor watch or locate second user parts from previously mentioned sources plus speedtimerkollection site  in europe.  Jules borel and esslingers

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On 7/15/2021 at 11:57 AM, ottarno said:

Can anyone tell me of best repair shop / parts for this watch? 

There is no best or secret place for parts, actually there's s no guarantee one can get parts at all. Have a read to our pinned topic below. 

 

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