Identifying watch parts.

[Neverenoughwatches]

Hiya watch peeps , anyone recognise this bit, sorting through a load of miscellaneous parts and this keeps popping up, just wondering whether to bin them. Please dont say watchmakers keep everything,  i know i know, but  hoarding does have a limit. This is just a fraction of it. 

[oldhippy]

It's some type of setting lever spring but is that how  it should be bent or has it been damaged? 

[rehajm]

Iiiissss this your card?  This is a Seiko 6309 series, part 388 601.  People are selling the little mitten hooks for at least 7 quid...

 

Edited August 20, 2024 by rehajm

[AndyGSi]

Looks a little worn and appears the spring may already have sprung!!!

[rehajm]

Holy Carp! If you have an IWC balance staff in there I call dibs! (Snapped one today and I'm very sad...)

Edited August 20, 2024 by rehajm

[Neverenoughwatches]

56 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

It's some type of setting lever spring but is that how  it should be bent or has it been damaged? 

They're all like that OH, made that way , i think theys Seiko but thats just a guess. Thousands of setting levers, but many are the same maybe a 20 or so of a couple of hundred different, some i know, a lot i dont. If  these are quartz I'll bin em but i was hoping someone might have a handle on this one in particular. 

30 minutes ago, rehajm said:

Iiiissss this your card?  This is a Seiko 6309 series, part 388 601.  People are selling the little mitten hooks for at least 7 quid...

 

Nice one, well spotted,  i figured it might be Seiko, i know practically nothing about seiko movements. I bet I binned dozens of these last year when i started sorting through 30 of these trays. Takes me about a week of evenings just to do one tray. I'm about quarter way through the lot. Much appreciated that one rehajm. 

33 minutes ago, AndyGSi said:

Looks a little worn and appears the spring may already have sprung!!!

Could well be Andy, i haven't really looked at them, some look used and some not.

35 minutes ago, rehajm said:

Holy Carp! If you have an IWC balance staff in there I call dibs! (Snapped one today and I'm very sad...)

If i have it'll be a few years before i find and identify it. 

[Neverenoughwatches]

So people, im trying to figure out what i have here. I bought this stuff about 18 months ago. Story is i had an ebay search on watch parts, and one day it threw up a seller wanted rid of excess bits that she'd  bought from cousins. They sell plastic cases of random parts originating from who knows where, possibly India. The seller was into some sort of craft stuff, picked through what she wanted and banged the rest on ebay for about a fiver per case. Turned out she had 30 or so of these casee, so me being me i offered her 80 quid for the lot which she accepted. 4 days later a delivery lady struggled to hand me a parcel weighing 10kg lol.  I've been through about 7 or 8 and threw away a lot of parts i  thought were unidentifiable quartz bits. Looks like i was wrong and have one shed load of seiko parts, up to now discoverable as 6309 bits. Now i also throught these had being pulled out of watches for repair, some were rusty and some damage but seems like only 10 % is trash, mixed in with hair and rubble, but most of it is new. All different parts of a movement, lots of keyless parts. Pallet forks escape wheels , bridges ,plates,barrel completes, pin pallets, small bags of cap jewels , collets, hands, springs. Trying to understand where this stuff has come from, factory floor sweepings ? factory seconds ? Mumbai side street ?.    Anyone know ?

[gpraceman]

Mumbai back alley would be my guess.  Don't know how much of that will really be useful.  I can't imagine picking through a pile of parts like that to find a specific part that you need.  Crowns could be useful.  Parts may be good if you want to make some steam punk craft items.

Edited August 22, 2024 by gpraceman

[Neverenoughwatches]

3 hours ago, gpraceman said:

Mumbai back alley would be my guess.  Don't know how much of that will really be useful.  I can't imagine picking through a pile of parts like that to find a specific part that you need.  Crowns could be useful.  Parts may be good if you want to make some steam punk craft items.

Thats what i originally thought India, but this case has allsorts in it, some new never used, signed crowns some Seiko. Those crowns in the tub are from this one case. 

[RichardHarris123]

You really do like organising things, a billion staffs, now this.  Hehe.