This is a charming Helvetia watch from the UK for a service. It has an in-house movement, as most of them do. In this case, it’s the Helvetia 830 movement with an unusual design. The ratchet wheel, the crown wheel, […]
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I bought this Roamer on eBay to restore. I don’t do that as much as I used to but I still like to have a project watch to work on every now and then. Like most Roamer watches, it has
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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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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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