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This shock system is in Miyota movements, and probably many other Chinese ones.

 

This is the same system in the Miyota 8200 walkthrough I posted, so replacements shouldn't be too hard to get.

That i have a few old movements in the drawer :) .Will check if their is something that will work ? :)

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But not as fun as repairing a non working movement ? And learn something in the process . I have learnt that the jewel is called shockresist . Miyota system is called Parashock .

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