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·Hi People, time for a nice Story again…
I have been reading a bit about tuning fork watches and got more and more interested, these watches were cutting edge in the good old days, and even more expensive than Speedys!!
And after some time I found a promising one at a local auction house, but the 2 pictures they had were not the best.
So this one was a bit nervous to start to assess,
I called them and asked for some more, and these help me a little...
The case and case back looked nice, it had some scratches and marks, but still sharp and defined,
and trying to see the the dial, it also looked promising.
No movement pictures because they did not dare (or could) open the watch..
But the problem was that it was not working,
and the auction house thought that the main spring was broken…😗
I did manage them to use the crown, working the hands and date, and to them it seemed to function well.
I had also done some reading here on the forum regarding F300:s..
Thanks to @davidswiss I learned a lot!
Link to his post:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/tuning-fork-f300-a-cautionary-tale.59110/
And there were a lot of things to be beware of!
The batteries could leak out and damage the movement, crapy coils and the date wheel - very easy to find destroyed ones, and hard to find new ones!
I finally talked to my watchmaker about the watch, and he had done a lot of work on this typ of watch, and also knew what to look out for.
Anyway, the on-line biding started, and I only had one or two persons biding against me, and they gave up quite fast , so I won this one, and at a reasonable price.
BUT - it was the thing about the BEWARES…🤦
I received the watch a week later, and rushed down to my watchmaker, and he told me that he would look at it and call me back the next next day…
The call came, and amazingly - he only had to change the battery (and wiped off some oxidation), and it started humming and everything worked!!!
Serial nr showed ca 1972. And ref nr 198.001.
We agreed on a full service later, but now I would just see how it felt on the wrist.
I had some fun with Polywatch, and got rid off the small scratches.
And changed the worn strap.
And having a BIG GRIN on my face!!!
The two first pictures are from the auction houses website, and the rest are done with my crapy Iphone..
End of Story!
Cheers!
I have been reading a bit about tuning fork watches and got more and more interested, these watches were cutting edge in the good old days, and even more expensive than Speedys!!
And after some time I found a promising one at a local auction house, but the 2 pictures they had were not the best.
So this one was a bit nervous to start to assess,
I called them and asked for some more, and these help me a little...
The case and case back looked nice, it had some scratches and marks, but still sharp and defined,
and trying to see the the dial, it also looked promising.
No movement pictures because they did not dare (or could) open the watch..
But the problem was that it was not working,
and the auction house thought that the main spring was broken…😗
I did manage them to use the crown, working the hands and date, and to them it seemed to function well.
I had also done some reading here on the forum regarding F300:s..
Thanks to @davidswiss I learned a lot!
Link to his post:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/tuning-fork-f300-a-cautionary-tale.59110/
And there were a lot of things to be beware of!
The batteries could leak out and damage the movement, crapy coils and the date wheel - very easy to find destroyed ones, and hard to find new ones!
I finally talked to my watchmaker about the watch, and he had done a lot of work on this typ of watch, and also knew what to look out for.
Anyway, the on-line biding started, and I only had one or two persons biding against me, and they gave up quite fast , so I won this one, and at a reasonable price.
BUT - it was the thing about the BEWARES…🤦
I received the watch a week later, and rushed down to my watchmaker, and he told me that he would look at it and call me back the next next day…
The call came, and amazingly - he only had to change the battery (and wiped off some oxidation), and it started humming and everything worked!!!
Serial nr showed ca 1972. And ref nr 198.001.
We agreed on a full service later, but now I would just see how it felt on the wrist.
I had some fun with Polywatch, and got rid off the small scratches.
And changed the worn strap.
And having a BIG GRIN on my face!!!
The two first pictures are from the auction houses website, and the rest are done with my crapy Iphone..
End of Story!
Cheers!
