Your mechanical watch only runs when the mainspring is wound. Normally, a hand-wound watch has a 40 to 48-hour power reserve. That means that your manual winding watch relies on you to regularly wind it by turning the crown. For […]
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Have you ever had a watch movement with a broken screw? Or an original signed crown (case parts are often harder to find than movement parts) with a piece of a broken winding stem inside? Sure, you could use a drill
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Many vintage watches have radium lume on the dial and in the watch hands. It’s a big part of the overall appearance and the charm of these vintage watches, especially when the lume has changed into that attractive vintage yellow/brown
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The most significant advantage of acrylic crystals is that you can easily polish away scratches to make the crystal look like new again. But if the crystal is cracked or chipped, there’s no other solution than to fit a new
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One of the advantages of acrylic crystals is that you can easily polish away scratches to make the crystal look new again. This is especially useful if your watch has the original signed crystal or a crystal that’s not easily available
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This is a regular service of a Caravelle watch. Caravelle had links with Bulova (Bulova’s less expensive line). The movement is the Bulova 11DP which is a rebranded Citizen 0241 movement. This movement was available in two versions. One has
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