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It didn't arrive as expected this morning, so I'm all a-trembly, but I can post a couple of pics of the latest newbie about to hit the Fly household. It's an Anker - yes, and that is spelled correctly - which is a German make from the 1950s.

 

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The movement is described as: "The Uwersi  Cal. 57/8, 21 jewel lever movement" - so I shall take a good  look at it when it arrives. Just been serviced, apparently.

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As usual, I've been doing some research into the Uwersi Cal. 57/8 SCI/CLD movement. Here's a description of it from a website specialising in early German watch movements (translated by the writer into English from German):

 

The Uwersi 57/8 was available in different versions, with and without indirect driven center second and with or without date indication (which was advertized on the case back with using three patents, but consists in fact only of a gear and a spring). The movement described here contained everything. The flat nickel balance, without screw, long regulator arm and shock protection, regulates a conventional pin lever movement. However, there's one speciality with the pin anchor: The pins don't consist of metal, as usual, but of synthetic rubis. Technically, this is only a minor improvement, but it helps using two more advertizing-effective jewels. And these two are not the only additional jewels in this movement: All the gears are not only beared in jewels, but they all have cap jewels, too, even if there's a gap of a millimeter beween the two jewels. The second hand axle is even beared in two jewels, since it runs in the minute train, which is beared, and has got an additional jewel put losely on it. The only position, where a jewel bearing would have been really useful, at the spring, which keeps the indirect second hand gear in position, is of course un-jewelled... On the dial side, you see a familiar picture: A simple rocking bar winding mechanism, a very simple click spring mechanism with just a spring and the advertized calendar mechanism, which only advances slowly and cannot be corrected quickly. This mechanism of three patents consists only of one gear with a pin. It drives the small date disc with the tiny date numbers. These better pin-lever movements were quite popular in the early fifties, when nobody had enough money for a "good" watch, and last but not least, its unusual details make it a collecting-worth movement.

 

Fascinating stuff. And a pic from the site to go with it:

 

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And here's the technical description:

 

Manufacturer Uwersi Caliber 57/8 SCI CLD

Number of jewels 21

Escapement pin lever

Balance Nickel

Shock protection(s) none

Balance cock direction clockwise

Hairspring stud fixed

Regulator type

Hairspring key

Movement construction Fork
Escapement wheel, Fourth wheel, Third wheel, Center wheel, Mainspring barrel

Features SCI,QG Functions Hour, minute, second, day

Beats per hour 18000

Size 101/2'''

Production time 195x

Image in Flume

Werksucher  1957 43

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Mmm... this arrived yesterday - and wasn't working. The seller, who seems a nice guy, reckoned it had been damaged in the post as he'd checked it prior to posting and it was running perfectly. I tend to agree with him. Anyway, the upshot is that I'm sending it back to him and he'll either repair it for me or refund the cash. I'm happy with either.

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