Omega Bumper 342.... Need a hairspring, or repair original?

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I guess this is a problem with modern pedantry. I use 'laser' to represent optical inferometry as they layperson will understand 'Laser' as the secret sauce. Corporations intentionally obfuscate trade secrets and their own history. All the AI misinformation I see on social media and none of this really matters.

I still need 4 33x hairsprings which at the moment are basically unobtainum. Erich and the OP also need hairsprings.

If there is a way modern tech can be used to grade job lot assortments of parts, then what does it matter when or who's ego claimed to invent something that was going to be invented anyway.
I'm actually all set on 342 hairsprings! The movement I have, despite running like garbage when I got it, cleaned up perfectly!

So just OP and @sheepdoll at the moment.
 
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Well, this is a bit of a myth. By the time this watch was produced there was enough standardization that any adjustments that would be required to make a different spring work would be very minor of any were needed at all. In fact, Omega once sold the balance spring assembly as a replacement parts...330.1320

Thanks Al, this is really good to know. I've been told the opposite countless times, so I've never tried it.