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Putting the Lovely Landerons aside, I wound up getting more omega spare parts from an online estate seller.
As I have noted in other threads, I am a sucker for estate sale parts assortments. I have been collecting parts as well as watches for over 30 years.
Recently I got a 505. 505 caliber watches are not the same as 550 watches. These use a base caliber of 500 which is a base caliber of 470. But apart from a few parts shared with 330 the sizes are all wrong.
Still I am finding patterns in the chaos.
By chance a loose seamaster dial fits the 505 mainplate (but the dinamic dyle does not.) I also had quite a few parts for 330,470, 550 and others. I do have the 'parts' book what covers these calibers.
The floppy drive box,I have used to store this stuff for at least 24 years, is now too small for all the parts and will no longer close. Guess it will be time for a bigger box.
Did find a few parts useful for the 505. And even breed a couple.
The 505 balance did not turn free when I got it. The bridge screw was rusted. Fortunately it did come out with little effort. The balance pivots looked good. Reassembling it and it now swings free.
This is where research comes in. I may have posted some early impressions in one of the what did you get at auction threads. About 1/2 the parts are missing. At first I though some of the 330 parts might work, No luck, only a few setting parts are in common.
Likewise none of the 550 parts are compatible. I also learned that 562 and 563 parts are different. All by comparing data sheets and reading posts here.
Some winding parts were also missing. I was thinking of posting as there is much written on how 550 winding bridges and gears work together. Notably bridge 1033 was a puzzle. Especially as most of the steel parts and big wheels are missing. Without an assembly guide it is hard to know how things fit together.
I can see the fuzzy pictures in the data sheets. So I do know what is missing. More searches and I find that @Mitka Had just the picture I needed posted somewhere.
So now I know where the missing parts go.
Half the barrel is missing. This part seems to be all or nothing. Given the amount of rust on the plates I suspect there was major water damage happening. Some of the wheels are missing pivots. I think on the dial side.
What was strange, was that when I put the unused parts back, into the now too small floppy drive box, I found I had two center wheels. Yet there was only one center wheel in the auction photos. There were two third wheel assemblies in the auction photos. So where did the other center wheel come from? Must have been loose in the spare parts, fallen out of an envelope or something.
The winding stem is another mystery. I have lots and lots of stems. One would think as much of the setworks comes from the 330 that stems would interchange. But no. A 470 stem does not fit a 505, and niether does a 550 stem which looks different than a 470 stem. Only through much research can such be figured out.
And here I thought Landeron differences were subtle.
Now comes the waiting. There is no escape wheel. Most of the listing are sold out on the part. I was going to call the parts houses to see what missing parts might still be in the dusty warehouse. There was one seller in Spain who had such listed. Since I watched it. I got an offer, which was less than the material house would likely charge.
I never think to look at the parts for sale here. Mostly as it seems to be accessories. On the other hand much of my research here in these forums, answered most of my questions before I could ask them.
In a lot of ways, I want to share every little detail of discovery. It is always so satisfying when one does find a match with a part or piece of information. There is so much out there even when one keeps getting asked by google if they are a robot.
Putting the Lovely Landerons aside, I wound up getting more omega spare parts from an online estate seller.
As I have noted in other threads, I am a sucker for estate sale parts assortments. I have been collecting parts as well as watches for over 30 years.
Recently I got a 505. 505 caliber watches are not the same as 550 watches. These use a base caliber of 500 which is a base caliber of 470. But apart from a few parts shared with 330 the sizes are all wrong.
Still I am finding patterns in the chaos.
By chance a loose seamaster dial fits the 505 mainplate (but the dinamic dyle does not.) I also had quite a few parts for 330,470, 550 and others. I do have the 'parts' book what covers these calibers.
The floppy drive box,I have used to store this stuff for at least 24 years, is now too small for all the parts and will no longer close. Guess it will be time for a bigger box.
Did find a few parts useful for the 505. And even breed a couple.
The 505 balance did not turn free when I got it. The bridge screw was rusted. Fortunately it did come out with little effort. The balance pivots looked good. Reassembling it and it now swings free.
This is where research comes in. I may have posted some early impressions in one of the what did you get at auction threads. About 1/2 the parts are missing. At first I though some of the 330 parts might work, No luck, only a few setting parts are in common.
Likewise none of the 550 parts are compatible. I also learned that 562 and 563 parts are different. All by comparing data sheets and reading posts here.
Some winding parts were also missing. I was thinking of posting as there is much written on how 550 winding bridges and gears work together. Notably bridge 1033 was a puzzle. Especially as most of the steel parts and big wheels are missing. Without an assembly guide it is hard to know how things fit together.
I can see the fuzzy pictures in the data sheets. So I do know what is missing. More searches and I find that @Mitka Had just the picture I needed posted somewhere.
So now I know where the missing parts go.
Half the barrel is missing. This part seems to be all or nothing. Given the amount of rust on the plates I suspect there was major water damage happening. Some of the wheels are missing pivots. I think on the dial side.
What was strange, was that when I put the unused parts back, into the now too small floppy drive box, I found I had two center wheels. Yet there was only one center wheel in the auction photos. There were two third wheel assemblies in the auction photos. So where did the other center wheel come from? Must have been loose in the spare parts, fallen out of an envelope or something.
The winding stem is another mystery. I have lots and lots of stems. One would think as much of the setworks comes from the 330 that stems would interchange. But no. A 470 stem does not fit a 505, and niether does a 550 stem which looks different than a 470 stem. Only through much research can such be figured out.
And here I thought Landeron differences were subtle.
Now comes the waiting. There is no escape wheel. Most of the listing are sold out on the part. I was going to call the parts houses to see what missing parts might still be in the dusty warehouse. There was one seller in Spain who had such listed. Since I watched it. I got an offer, which was less than the material house would likely charge.
I never think to look at the parts for sale here. Mostly as it seems to be accessories. On the other hand much of my research here in these forums, answered most of my questions before I could ask them.
In a lot of ways, I want to share every little detail of discovery. It is always so satisfying when one does find a match with a part or piece of information. There is so much out there even when one keeps getting asked by google if they are a robot.
