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Hello everyone. Sorry if this is a waste of your skill, but if you could please help me I would greatly appreciate it.

I bought a fun Lorus Kermit The Frog watch. Its a Lorus from 1994. I took it to get a new strap and battery (I had some in the mail but I thought what the hell, support local), and the jeweler informed me that it wouldnt run. The battery leaked inside. He cleaned what he could, and seemed bummed he couldnt get it going. Though he mentioned the movement is replaceable which I didnt know.

Here's the tricky part. It says on the back of the watch and the movement itself that it is a V531-7A00. After a bunch of searching I understand that Hattori makes the replacements for these things. However, I CANNOT find a replacement V531. I've found V532, but not V531.

Before anyone suggests repairs or maintenance, I'll let you know that ship has sailed. After the jeweler declared it dead, I took it as an opportunity to try to fix it myself (having an interest in watches and a love of tinkering), and its assuredly more dead than ever before. 

Does anyone know a good place to search for this movement? Or do you know if there is another movement that will work in this watch as well?

Thanks very much.

 

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Sorry I couldnt figure out how to edit my original post with additional information.

What I'm finding out really strange about this whole thing is how difficult it is to find any information about this movement. For instance, on the Lorus website, they dont even list it on this battery chart. http://www.loruswatches.com/Battery

In my head there's two possibilties. One of which is that they only produced it for a very limited time and dont even have any documentation on it. The second is that it was just completely replaced by another movement. I think you can guess which one I'm hoping for.

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3 hours ago, StuartBaker104 said:

According to this http://www.labanda.com.au/catalogues/labanda-mc-web.pdf, the V531 movement was also sold under the name VP31 (probably for Pulsar). There is one of those on eBay in Spain, or also here http://www.smithsupplyhouse.com/vp31.html

Thank you so much! Hahaha, boy have I been inside a hell of a google rabbit-hole. So I took a closer look at the pictures in the link, and also the ebay listings. Every one of the pictures is stamped with "Shiojiri VP31A". Now on this website http://www.boley.de/en/caliber/watchmovements/shiojiri/12351 it mentions "Hattory-Pulsar Y121 A". Could that mean that model is also an equivalent? I'm trying my hardest to source the movement in Canada to avoid getting annihilated on shipping costs. And maybe somewhere down the line a person with a goofy broken watch will thank me for all of this hahahaha

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Not sure why Y121 is shown there - its a completely different size and shape.

With your new constraints, the best I think you’ll do is this https://www.somalcanada.com/product/1515~yr67-yr67.html

YR67 is the crrent equivalent Seiko movement. It is only 3.05mm thick instead of 3.3, so you may have to pack it a little, but the diameter is the same and so are the hand sizes. I can’t tell if the dial feet will line up, but you will be able to tell from pictures on line. The stem size is tap 10.

This will cost you very little to try and then you could resort to the ebay option if necessary.

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