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My Father in laws watch stopped working, don’t know when or why. The local watch shop said it is mechanical, it doesn’t have a battery. Is this correct? Any suggestions on how to get it going again? Shake it? Put it in the sun or what? Thanks -
Barnoldswick - famous for Roll Royce aero engines and Silentnight beds. And apparently the largest town not on an A-road. -
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I haven't seen that written, though most of these larger Longines from this period are probably chrono grade. I have a 1975 Admiral Cal 506. According to Ranfft the 508 is the same but with Day
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And before that, Britain was a major player : In 1800 Britain made around half of the world’s watches; around 200,000 pieces a year. By 1900 the quantity produced in Britain had declined by half, despite the worldwide market for watches having risen into the millions. The problem lay in the hand-made nature of English watches and the heavy reliance on skilled workers who were reluctant to adapt to the changes in technology. The Swiss and the Americans were much quicker and more successful in adopting mass production techniques. A lot of the parts were made in Lancashire, where I grew up* - and I never heard of any history of watch making. ( * @Neverenoughwatches : I was born in Yorkshire, but in the 1974 county boundary changes, the town I lived in was moved from Yorkshire to Lancashire. You can imagine how popular that was 😱 )
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