Spent the evening with a box of vintage watch parts

[anzac1957]

Bought a big box of non running vintage watches and parts a number of years back.. So this evening I got the box out and had another look through what was in there.. Found two watches with 1686 calibre movements and a spare 1686 movement.. On closer examination, I noticed that the hairsprings were detached on two of them.. The balance and hairspring on my spare movement was intact.. So I swapped out the balance and hairspring and dropped it into this watch and it started ticking.. The watch didn't have a second hand so had another look through my parts and found one that matched reasonably well.. Cleaned the case and added strap..



Info on the 1686 calibre movement..

www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&AS_1686

In the box I also discovered a nice looking Osco that needs a new crystal and tinkering with the movement to get it going.. In the process I also discovered a German Sussex that is going but needs a caseback..

So all in all a great night of watch tinkering..

Cheers

[Groundhog66]

That's a great looking dial, how accurately is it running?

[anzac1957]

Sept 17, 2013 5:55:50 GMT -8 Groundhog66 said:

That's a great looking dial, how accurately is it running?

It looks to have gained around a minute overnight..  I haven't done any adjusting yet..

[Groundhog66]

Sounds like a winner!

[anzac1957]

Daylight pic..



Still within one minute accuracy..

[tedward515]

Not to bad for a parts bin special.