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·At a yard sale couple days ago and they had a bag of watch parts. Not unusual, particularly that many yard sales are actually estate sales for a relative that passed. There always seems to be a bag of watches. Why don't people ever throw away old and broken watches?
Sellers usually have no knowledge and basically give the parts away, which is nice and how I come home with cool extra bands and vintage parts and such. Surpriseingly, many don't even know watches used to wind up, and just think the battery is dead.😕
Fishing through the plastic bag I saw this little fellow and gave the crown a wind. Started up right away and seemed to sound good to my calibrated ear 😵💫
Helbros Invincible. I estimate its from late 50s, early 60s. Poor thing is all beat to hell and back, including the band. The view is distorted due to so many scratches. Hard life for sure but with a name like Invincible maybe is better than it looks? Been wearing it since Friday and running just super at -6secs/day.
Then I put it on the Timegrapher. Well heck, that little Invincible just might be Invincible after 60yrs....👍
Sellers usually have no knowledge and basically give the parts away, which is nice and how I come home with cool extra bands and vintage parts and such. Surpriseingly, many don't even know watches used to wind up, and just think the battery is dead.😕
Fishing through the plastic bag I saw this little fellow and gave the crown a wind. Started up right away and seemed to sound good to my calibrated ear 😵💫
Helbros Invincible. I estimate its from late 50s, early 60s. Poor thing is all beat to hell and back, including the band. The view is distorted due to so many scratches. Hard life for sure but with a name like Invincible maybe is better than it looks? Been wearing it since Friday and running just super at -6secs/day.
Then I put it on the Timegrapher. Well heck, that little Invincible just might be Invincible after 60yrs....👍
