馃ぃ Exactly the same date as the example pic I put up, weird!
Must have been right at the tail end of the "2000" on the dial.
Looks nice and clean under the hood 馃憤
I hadn't spotted the similarly, d'oh.
How did I miss that.
The caseback jacket was a bit gunky
I think that gives a ballpark area but probably not specific to assembly date.
The movements were probably stamped when they came on to TH stock rather than when the watch was assembled.
Hard to be sure that they have the original movement as well, so many movement swaps take place and the coil guards don't always get swapped over.
This is the pic of my movement showing it's date on the coil cover.
Totally true! But in my experience quite close. The watches I had with papers were generally sold well within 1 to 2 years from the date on the coil cover.
Also one of the easiest ways to check if it's original, right? If if has the coil cover it's most likely original. If the cover has disappeared it's most likely not. Can never be really sure though!
Got a quick question for you guys on this forum about finding NOS (new old stock - so never been used) replacement original ETA 955.112 quartz movements. I know these are 7 jewel and generally considered superior (last longer, more durable) than the newer modern replacements since they stopped being made several years ago. They are getting harder to find and I wanted to buy now while I can still find wholesalers who have true replacements for eventual swap out. Anyone have any experience ordering these with either Swiss Watch House (swisswh.com) out of Cairo Egpyt or U.S. Watch Parts out of Michigan? I want to make sure I am receiving true NOS and not reconditioned older movements salvaged from pervious watches
Got a quick question for you guys on this forum about finding NOS (new old stock - so never been used) replacement original ETA 955.112 quartz movements. I know these are 7 jewel and generally considered superior (last longer, more durable) than the newer modern replacements since they stopped being made several years ago. They are getting harder to find and I wanted to buy now while I can still find wholesalers who have true replacements for eventual swap out. Anyone have any experience ordering these with either Swiss Watch House (swisswh.com) out of Cairo Egpyt or U.S. Watch Parts out of Michigan? I want to make sure I am receiving true NOS and not reconditioned older movements salvaged from pervious watches
I've bought from Swiss Watch House out of Egypt. I can't say for sure if the movement is NOS. It looks newish, but I'm not an expert. All I know is the movement runs fine and I'm happy with the purchase.
I bought a Longines Hydroconquest a few years ago that turned out to be fake.
There are numerous tells on it but the movement appeared to be a real eta, apart from the stem release button arrow.
On this one the arrow is continuous but in that fake Hydro, the arrow is broken.
Funny thing is, I bought an eta movement from H S Walsh and that had the broken arrow too.
I asked them about the anomaly but they couldn't help.
I've asked on other forums but didn't get anywhere.Anybody any clue as to the difference
There are a ton of minor variations in the circuits on these. They were made for 40 years or so. Green, blue, trimmer, no trimmer. Some have a hole for the trimmer some don't. You get different track layouts as well.The one consistent thing is they all interchange!
You can get Chinese replacement circuits as well but I'm not sure if they made full clone movements.
I just pulled four random ones out on the bench, the blue one on the right has an arrow on it's own. Came out of a dead Rado I think.
Thanks 馃憤
Looks like the movement is genuine then 馃 that'll explain it's reliability which has been like the 2000's
HS Walsh are ok, can't see them passing off Chinese stuff as gen 馃憤
I must have had hundreds of these and I still see circuit variants I haven't seen before.
That blue one out the Rado has most of the circuitry on the underside and it's also a bigger main plate, it does away with the separate plastic bit that normally stays on the movement when you take the circuit off.
Still interchanges though.
All the quartz eta's I've had have been superb, apart from the ones in my WAC111a.
I've only changed the battery once in that fake Hydro, in about 7 years.
It was a sad day when they stopped making them. I love them,definitely amongst my all time favourite movements and easily my favourite quartz.
Real high quality workhorses, not a plastic gear or pivot in sight. They get treated as a throwaway like most quartz movements but are way better than that, everything can be fixed.
They are virtually bulletproof, hardly ever fail naturally. In my experience nearly ever failure is down to clumsy battery changes with people hitting the coil, water ingress or leaking batteries. Mechanical failures are rare and natural circuit failures are too.
Plenty still running that are 40 years old and have never seen any cleaning or fresh lubrication.
I've got a lot of vintage quartz TAGs (1000, 2000, SEL, 6000, Formula 1 etc.), I worry about how long they'll go without an overhaul service.
The problem is most watch repair shops will charge just as much to do an overhaul service (if they're even willing to do it) as they'll charge to swap out the movement (inclusive of the ETA movement cost).
I've started to buy spare movements, so I can do the movement swap myself should the need arise. But even then, I don't know the state of the lubrication on these replacement movements.
Got a question for all you ETA Quartz movement experts out there. I ordered a replacement ETA 955.412 quartz movement that arrived today. When unpacking, I notices a small piece of gold-toned metal loose in the bag with the movement. You can clearly see it in the attached photo. Anyone have any idea what it is, where it belongs and whether the movement will work without this in place? Concerned that something got knocked loose or broke in transit and I need to contact seller. Would appreciate any info if anyone recognizes the piece from shape. Thanks
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