With Built-in ‘First Aid Kits’ of Spare Parts The purchase history of this device is trivial – once it was a broken stopwatch with an oxidised body and low-quality glass cover: A hand is missing, the balance staff is broken – the appearance is unpresentable. But: the dial and case are intact, and the mechanism […]
Excelsior Park Split Stopwatch 1/100-Minutes Read More »
Gold 18K Breitling chronograph based on famous Venus 170 movement – dial restoration, missing bezel machining.
Breitling Chronograph Restoration Read More »
Vintage LeCoultre & Co ‘Calibre 50’ minute repeater split seconds chronograph perpetual calendar enamel dial moonphase movement for custom watch commission project.
LeCoultre Calibre 50 Grande Complication Read More »
Dial refinish is rather expensive part of restoration work. In most cases we can’t just “clean” the dial and need to reproduce all paint layers from metal plate up to fixing varnish. This dial arrived from customer in rough condition. Stain, wearing – the damage is permanent, corrosion inside the paint layer can’t be cleaned and must be fully re-painted.
ZENITH Chronograph – watch dial restoration Read More »
This project, for a complicated “jumbo” custom built watch case, based on a repeating pocket watch movement from the 1890’s, aimed to rehouse the original vintage pocket watch movement into a new machine-built wristwatch case. Originally, 120 or more years ago, this watch was a rather large and rather heavy gold pocket watch, with a
Le Phare Moonphase Calendar Quarter Repeater, 49 mm, circa 1890’s Read More »
Note: This movement is for custom watch project only. Please communicate via e-mail horological.underground@gmail.com for preview and order. Details historical mand-made timepiece by lead inventor from LeCoultre family very rare experimental co-axial chronograph activation clutch feature signed enamel dial, original hands
Eugene LeCoultre Geneve rare chronograph pocket watch movement, 1870’s Read More »
Note: This movement is for custom watch project only. Status: SOLD. Please communicate via e-mail horological.underground@gmail.com for preview and order. Details original signed enamel dial high-grade repeating movement based on LeCoultre & Co ebauche (blanc) perfect preserved condition
Ulysse Nardin 11763 quarter repeater chronograph, Le Locle, 1880’s Read More »
