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Picked this up recently for a snip from an excellent fleabayer in Japan:

 

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A fairly clean item from August 1968 with a good dial. Being a bit of a fan of Sportsmatics, I haven't come across this particular model before & wrongly thought at first that it had a cyclops crystal retro fitted. Further research showed this to be the original configuration, however the crystal was in fairly poor nick & appeared to have been polished a few times in the past. After some more detective work the part number was obtained & amazingly Cousins had one in stock:

 

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So far so good, although the rotor sounds a little rough (not uncommon on these). Lets see whats inside:

 

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Bit grubby with a scraping rotor, but the bearings seem OK, so the rotor gets bent upwards slightly - don't frown, it's what Seiko recommends!

 

Out of the case, dial & hands off, strip down the dial side. Note the broken setting lever spring, I have a donor movement from a previous project and will replace this:

 

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Turn over & rotor off:

 

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Remove the winding gear:

 

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Strip down the above, a bit of wear on the magic lever but appears to work fine, clean lube & reassemble:

 

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Onto the main stripdown:

 

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All in bits & cleaned:

 

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Lower Diashock dismantled, cleaned then reassembled:

 

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Then it all goes back together:

 

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On to the dial side, setting lever spring replaced:

 

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Into the case, reattach winding gear, rotor  & caseback on:

 

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The original crystal was used before the previous step to protect the hands, this is now removed the dial is given a final clean before putting the new crystal in place, which pushes on under finger pressure. The crystal is held firm by the bezel, which is a problem to fit as all of my dies are shallow & bevelled, unable to push the bezel down, so 2 pieces of 40mm waste water pipe are cut to suitable length, one piece is then fitted onto a stepped flat die, the other has a section removed and placed inside the first:

 

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Works a treat. Finally, with a new tan alligator strap fitted:

 

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It looks like the crown has been replaced with the wrong one in the dim & distant. Hopefully this will be rectified in due course.

 

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for the kind comments all.

 

Jdm - timegrapher reading as requested:

 

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Taken dial down, there is a little variance on other positions & I will give it another look in a week or so once its bedded in. The original readings before service were: Rate +/-13 seconds, Amp 194, BE 1.2

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Brilliant!  And so nicely photographed as well.  Oh how I wish my hands weren't so shaky as well as my confidence.  Looking at the pile of parts I would have no idea of the reassembly order.  This is where your craft and intelligence comes into play.  Bravo!

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excellent tutorial! well done and easy to follow. that sportsmatic is a beauty. that is a great classic look with those beautiful dauphine hands. and these sportsmatics seem to have much larger indices than other seikos. maybe i'm imagining that  - but it seems so.

i've got three of them - and i think one more around here somewhere. mine are 6619's from 1964, 1967 and one i can't date. they're a nice dress watch and just the right size.

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Picked this up recently for a snip from an excellent fleabayer in Japan:

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A fairly clean item from August 1968 with a good dial. Being a bit of a fan of Sportsmatics, I haven't come across this particular model before & wrongly thought at first that it had a cyclops crystal retro fitted. Further research showed this to be the original configuration, however the crystal was in fairly poor nick & appeared to have been polished a few times in the past. After some more detective work the part number was obtained & amazingly Cousins had one in stock:

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So far so good, although the rotor sounds a little rough (not uncommon on these). Lets see whats inside:

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Bit grubby with a scraping rotor, but the bearings seem OK, so the rotor gets bent upwards slightly - don't frown, it's what Seiko recommends!

Out of the case, dial & hands off, strip down the dial side. Note the broken setting lever spring, I have a donor movement from a previous project and will replace this:

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Turn over & rotor off:

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Remove the winding gear:

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Strip down the above, a bit of wear on the magic lever but appears to work fine, clean lube & reassemble:

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Onto the main stripdown:

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All in bits & cleaned:

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Lower Diashock dismantled, cleaned then reassembled:

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Then it all goes back together:

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On to the dial side, setting lever spring replaced:

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Into the case, reattach winding gear, rotor & caseback on:

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The original crystal was used before the previous step to protect the hands, this is now removed the dial is given a final clean before putting the new crystal in place, which pushes on under finger pressure. The crystal is held firm by the bezel, which is a problem to fit as all of my dies are shallow & bevelled, unable to push the bezel down, so 2 pieces of 40mm waste water pipe are cut to suitable length, one piece is then fitted onto a stepped flat die, the other has a section removed and placed inside the first:

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Works a treat. Finally, with a new tan alligator strap fitted:

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It looks like the crown has been replaced with the wrong one in the dim & distant. Hopefully this will be rectified in due course.

What a great job

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