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Caliper1681
May 27th, 2008, 15:10
A while back I posted on a Louis Rossel, 70's watch that I bought of the Bay. In it you gave me your take on a problem that my watch had as a loose cannon pionion. Well saturday i took my watch to a local watchmaker and he concured with you. He gave me a quote of $200.00 to set my c. p. this includes an entire service of the watch.
My question to you now is if this is a good price of if I should get a second quote. I live in Miami and there are'nt many good watchmakers that I am aware of so if there is anybody that know of one, please let me know.

Thanks again JimH.
Ray MacDonald
May 27th, 2008, 16:51
If you are OK with the price, I'd say go ahead. I've paid more than that to get an old pocket watch working.
You can shop around and find someone who'll do it for less probably, but if you've found a good place now is it worth it?
At the end of the day the watch will be fixed, serviced and ready to give you many years of use. That's the bottom line.
Caliper1681
May 27th, 2008, 17:32
If you are OK with the price, I'd say go ahead. I've paid more than that to get an old pocket watch working.
You can shop around and find someone who'll do it for less probably, but if you've found a good place now is it worth it?
At the end of the day the watch will be fixed, serviced and ready to give you many years of use. That's the bottom line.

Thank You Ray|>
Caliper1681
June 2nd, 2008, 19:10
Forgot to mention that the movement I thought was a ETA 2828 is in fact an "AS 1986" Anybody have any clue who nade this movement?

Thanks in advance.
JimH
June 2nd, 2008, 19:37
AS stands for Adolf Schild a major Swiss movement manufacturer. A. Schild merged with ETA in 1978.

You can find more about this movement here AS 1986 (http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&AS_1986)
Caliper1681
June 2nd, 2008, 21:16
AS stands for Anton Schild a major Swiss movement manufacturer. A. Schild merged with ETA in 1978.

You can find more about this movement here AS 1986 (http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&AS_1986)


Thanks again|>
Hartmut Richter
June 2nd, 2008, 23:09
As is in fact Adolf Schild, not Anton.

Hartmut Richter
JimH
June 2nd, 2008, 23:40
That's correct, my error.