What is this?? Accutron 214 Railroad with a stem??

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redpcar

·Jan 24, 2022

Scrolling through the junk watches on ebay and I noticed this. Looks like a 214 Accutron Railroad but has a stem on the case. WTH? What would this crown do? Ever buy something just to see what is going on with it?

 

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Canuck

·Jan 24, 2022

An Accutron movement put into a standard Bulova case, I reckon. All the crown would achieve is to plug the hole in the case. Either that, or someone has removed the 214 setting components from the inner case back, and fitted a non-calendar 218 model movement. The case back is marked with the 1973 code. I’d have thought that Bulova was no longer making the 214 model, that late!

 

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Waltesefalcon

·Jan 24, 2022

Confusing is what it is. Did you buy it? We need movement photos.

 

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redpcar

·Jan 24, 2022

I'll let you buy it 😉. It's at $50 for mostly junk + a $35 Accutron.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125108907897?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Good call @Canuck! I don't know what I was thinking. Someone put a 214 back on a 218 watch. M3 = 1963 btw.

 

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wagudc

·Jan 24, 2022

I don't see why it couldn't be the other way around. Perhaps a quartz movement fitted to an Accutron case?

 

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connieseamaster

·Jan 24, 2022

redpcar

I'll let you buy it 😉. It's at $50 for mostly junk + a $35 Accutron.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125108907897?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Good call @Canuck! I don't know what I was thinking. Someone put a 214 back on a 218 watch. M3 = 1963 btw.

Is that an M or N?

 

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redpcar

·Jan 24, 2022

It's a back-set 214 case back. I HAS to be an "M".
Now that I look at it over and over, I'm not sure. 😵‍💫

Edited: Jan 24, 2022