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Dear fellow watchmakers, I may need help with this one.  My client, and good friend, brought me a Bulova Sea King automatic with day-date, calibre 11 ANACB, and its problem was as follows - the hour hand would stop at 5 pm, while the minute and seconds hand would continue on time, and when this would happen the day and date would not advance.  I have already located the problem part; it is the "Date Indicator Driving Wheel, part #574".  The pin on it has broken free and jams the wheel and the date ring.

I have searched high and low.  I warned my client I may need to spend a larger sum on a whole parts movement if I could not get just that one part.  So he knows now.  But I would like to just buy the part from somewhere. Already been to a whole bunch of sites - Ebay, Etsy, Daves, and others that carry vintage watches and parts.  But I'm sure I don't know them all.  (Or at least I'm hoping I don't.)

If anyone here, who works on Bulovas, actually has - or can help me find - the Date Indicator Driving Wheel, part #574, specific to 11 ANACB, I would be glad pay if it comes with a price (though with this forum having rules against buying and selling, I can continue any such correspondence privately by direct message).  Or you can point me to a site where you found it.  I am not picky at all.  This client has a lovely old Bulova and just wants to wear it again, and he's a good fellow and I do not want to charge him more than absolutely necessary.  

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13 hours ago, Randy55 said:

I hope this is of use:

https://www.emmywatch.com/db/locate/part/date_indicator_drive_wheel--574_bul_11anacb/bulova--11anacb/

The part is listed as compatible ..but appears to have some loss of plating from exposure

Randy

That link at Emmy Watch had me fooled too.  The part on Ebay that it actually leads to is #609, the intermediate wheel.

But no sweat, I am about to post an update.

UPDATE: DONOR MOVEMENT HAS BEEN FOUND AND PURCHASED! 

Many thanks to anyone who was looking on my behalf. 

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