Wife went to garage sale and these came up.

[longbike]

Aloha ,

My wife and her friend went to the market and passed a garage sale coming home. Well you know women they like all that
so they stopped. She bought some excess. I asked her what is this package here , she tells me oh there is two old dead watch's
the Women said so I got it for you if you want it for parts. I said how much for the watch's ?
She tells me the women said ..... $1.50 .... for the Two. 
So I opened it up and this little ..... Women's Watch ..... was in there.
I took it and cleaned it up then I put a new movement into it that I had here.
A Women's ... Methey - Tissot   " Luger  "  ( Quartz -  and it is working good now. )


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Now :
I looked in the package also and saw this wrapped up with paper and scotch tape.  I took it back to the Women to see if she still
wanted it and told her this was in the package and she tells me .....
" No that watch does not work because the crown is stuck and I could not pull it out to set it ".
I showed her that it has a .... Screw Down Crown ... and that is why it was so hard to set it.

She then tells me .... " Awe go ahead and keep it , it is broken any way it stopped working ".
She tells me ..... "  I just packed them up about ... 5 years ago ". 
( It looks like they are still around yet. )  The darn thing works too and keeps great time since yesterday on the desk...... .
All I did was shake it real good and it started to run.
( Well one more for the shelf ..... . )                   Can not open it so later I'll see what is in it for a movement.

[HiBeat]

A Faux-Lex !

[Groundhog66]

Jul 27, 2017 13:09:11 GMT -8 HiBeat said:

A Faux-Lex !

Hopefully Swiss, and not Chinese.

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A coworker returned from the southest and presented one of the fake rolexes to me many, man, years ago. I did open the back, wasn't too familiar but saw it was jeweled. That watch kept great time for nearly a year I wore it daily. At the time I was surprise someone could make as "fine" a mechanical watch as it was, and then not put THEIR name on it. The fit and finsh weren't there by any stretch of the imagination. I think the coworker gave $15USD at the time. Imagine an automatic watch for work for $15? Again a new mechanical automatic for $15? I passed it on to my dad as a gag gift and he continued to where it for some time.

Hope you can get as good of life out of it. Maybe you could mod it into a Black Bay homage? 

[longbike]

Aloha ,
It is still running strong and on time too. It is clean and well kept whoever had it.
It will just probably be a shelf object if the movement is a Hoax..... .
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I have another ( Impersonator ) also here also on the shelf.
A  ( Just trying to look like one of those Omega's .......   ) ... but it also keeps good and very accurate time and everything works.
Got it free from a guy at Church that said he found it in a bag of ...... Fashion Watch's last year.

Aloha Louis


Back says it is a ....James bond ..... .