The motion work side wasn’t much better but at least the wheels and pinions were unaffected by corrosion. Which left the mainplate in a sorry state. This is what was left of the winding pinion and clutch, the pinion was so corroded one of the teeth had rotted away. The keyless work looked awful, in fact most of the components were scrap. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem as a new date ring could be bought, but the date at 9 o’clock configuration of this watch means the ring is a unique Tag part.Įvery where I looked corrosion was present, even under the autowind bridge. Never mind wherever it originated from it had ruined the date ring. The reverse of the dial wasn’t looking good, where had all that rust come from? If I’d tried levering the dial up the feet would have parted company with the dial for sure. The dial did not want to be removed, it took some considerable pushing on the feet to get them to start moving. You can also see the orientation the watch was left in as it dried out as there is a rust stain on the dials periphery from 10 o’clock around to 1.30. I could also see a little staining on the date ring, lets hope it doesn’t get any worse than that. When the movement was uncased the lume from the 3 o’clock lume well had decided to drop out. With the autowind bridge removed it was obvious the crown wheel was badly rusted. With the movement spacer removed it gets worse, the dreaded rust is now making it’s presence known! This is powered by a decorated Silleta 200.1, a very capable ETA 2824 clone.
With the caseback removed things started to go downhill fast, you can see there are a lot of particles on the movement. At first glance it looks in remarkably good shape considering it got waterlogged.Įven the movement didn’t look too bad through the display caseback, however the first warning of problems were that the hands were seized solid, the rotor didn’t turn and when I pulled the crown to try and put it into the time setting position it came completely out! This Aquaracer came in recently described as “not working as it got wet, it looks clean inside though”.
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