Recommendation to service 1950s Tri Compax

The watch is off at Rik Dietel’s shop. He thinks the watch may be rose gold. The band definitely looks yellow gold.

Larry here are some photos of the watch while it’s being serviced. It had a broken hour reset spring, crown wheel and cannon pinion. Also one of the pins for the pushers was missing. My watchmaker is making it. You can see in the second photo that we only have one. Must have fallen and gotten lost when someone opened up the case. If you know where I may find one, please let me know. The hands all look original to my untrained eye. There is one photo in Sala’s book with a second hand like mine. But I remember you thought they may have been replaced,

Yes. Blake at Scotchwatch in Texas has been terrific sourcing the more complicated parts that we needed, but he doesn’t have the pusher. Luckily it’s something that can more easily be replicated vs gears and odd shaped springs.

Larry,

My watchmaker that works mostly on new and vintage Rolex could not get my Tri-Compax working properly. He took it all apart, made the pushers that were missing, replaced several parts that were broken, etc. But it still doesn't run reliably and the chrono gets stuck.

In his words, the watch is worn out. But it could also be that he's not very familiar with the UG 481 chronos. The watch has been in a safe since 1995, so it was only used for 45 years from 1950 to 1995.

You recommended RGM Watch and MJ Watch in the past. And there is also Blake from Scotchwatch in Texas that seems to have many of the parts that I needed and I understand he has experience with these.

This is an important heirloom for me that I really would like to get working.

Given all this, who would you send it to? I'm not in a rush and I don't mind paying up to make sure this is done right.