Restoration strategy advice sought

Hello everybody,

About 4 years ago I mentioned this watch in another thread. It's a 9ct Juvenia dress watch which was given to my father as an engagement present by his future father-in-law back in 1962. Sadly dad died last month and the watch has passed to me and I would like to have it restored. As you can see from the pictures it has an Accurist movement which was put in some years ago when, I believe, water ingress damaged the original movement. Dad always described it as "half a movement" (he was an antiques and clock dealer and knew a little about watches). I guess the movement was made for watches with more complications than this piece required.

The current movemetn is automatic but I wonder if the watch was originally a winder because it doesn't say "Automatic" on the dial. The year of purchase suggests it is part of the Slimline range but I don't see any images of this model online - in fact I don't see any references to Juvenia Slimline with neither seconds or date complications.

Anyway, I would like to see if it is possible to source a correct movement for this timepiece. The Accurist movement works fine, it just needs a good clean and service, but if the watch can be restored properly it would make me very happy.

Looking forward to advice and ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Nick

Thank you Erich - I will look out for a 664/2450 movement.

Thanks - next stop is search for the 2450/664 movement on everyone’s favourite auction site.

A little more research into this suggests that the absence of "21" or "Automatic" from the dial means that the original movement would likely have been a cal 604 17 or 21 jewel manual wound model. Does this make sense to experts here?

That's not to say I will go in that direction - dad was always proud that his watch was an automatic so I think to honour that I might well go for a cal 664 even if the watch probably never had such a movement at any time.