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Glycine Base 22 ETA 2893-2 and Sellita 330-1

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Its been more than a couple of years since I posted anything I have been working on. But today I had an hour to spare in the lab. One of the students is a Glycine guy and he wanted to swap out movements on two different Glycine  Airman GMT one with Sellita and the other with ETA. I told him they're practically identical, but he insisted so...here it goes. As you can see they both have 24 hour dials and some slight differences in details. The swap was straightforward and no problems with the dial. The case tubes prevented swapping the stem and crown, so those had to remain with the respective cases. Everything else was uneventful.

By the way, one of these was converted to a GMT purist with a hands kit sold by glycine that includes a spacer to eliminate the red hand and make the hour indicate 24 hour like the original airman watch. That did NOT work out right because the washer didn't quite fit. The hour hand would indicate somewhere in between 12 hour and 24 hour time. The students watch has the metal bracelet, the other I might buy. It now had a Selitta 330-2 which I have not worked on. At 44mm, the watch itself is a little bigger than I'm used to, but its distinctive and has history.

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