Doubly sad news for the vintage watch world. According to a member on watchuseek, Roland Ranfft passed away earlier this year. I have noticed that his database/archive of movements had been down intermittently in recently months, but now it seems to be gone entirely.
I didn't know him well, but always enjoyed his slightly salty contributions on WUS, and the archive of watch movements that he created was just incredible, and irreplaceable. It was truly a major accomplishment, and something I used almost daily to identify movements and find details about various calibers.
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