Revisiting an old hobby
Hello from Scotland.
I recently re-awakened an interest from my youth in watches and clocks. Strangely the catalyst was searching for a replacement hand for a Starrett dial indicator that I picked up for pennies on ebay and which I though might be useful for leveling the bed on my 3d printer. It was missing the dial hand, which looked very like a watch second hand, so that led to a search for a suitable donor watch. Needless to say I then got distracted by the vast array of old time pieces
A gents "UK Time Dundee" on the bench today.
This is one of the earlier Dundee Timex watches as it has the "UK Time" branding, so probably mid to late 1950s
This is what arrived in the post. Not very clean and that crystal is almost certainly made from pure unobtanium.
The "works" are stamped Made in Britain, but later versions often had Made in Scotland on them.
I have it running, but the winding mechanism is badly worn (who would have thought it, look
