Advice on vintage Rolex 710 cal. movement | NAWCC Forums
Jun 27, 2023 · It is a Rolex, a jewel would be a better way of fixing arbor sideshake. b) the balance appears to have magnetic problems and maybe the escape wheel too. My suggestion was to remove the pinion rather than the risk of removing …
Rolex lube equivalents? - NAWCC Forums
Aug 24, 2016 · They use 2 types of Rolex specific grease: one for the pallets and one for all other thing that are lubed with Fat. You should be able to use 9504 (the blue grease) from Moebious and specifically for the pallets 9415 also from Moebius. The thick oil Rolex prescribes today is HP1000. The thin oil Rolex prescribes in Moebius 9010. Succes RonP
1530/60/70 cal Rolex movements... - NAWCC Forums
Oct 28, 2002 · As time went by, whenever Rolex found it necessary to install a case back with a different number on a particular watch, they began using a jeweler's engraving machine (pantograph) to scratch through the original ref. number, and …
Help with ID on a Rolex - NAWCC Forums
Jul 31, 2024 · The reference number between the lugs is M832118 and also inside the dial track The movement Rotor has 25 J 1940 S.A, with the Rolex logo and inside the case back has 2350. I think the movement has a number under the balance wheel 2836-2
Did Rolex ever make a jump hour / mech. digital watch - more
Aug 16, 2001 · In addition to real Rolex quartz watches, however, there is another possibility for real Rolex watches with seconds hands that jump full seconds. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Rolex produced a model called the "Tru-Beat" (in the US, these were marketed under the name "Metropolitan"), which has an automatic mechanical movement with a ...
Eaton's 1/4 Century Club by Rolex - NAWCC Forums
Jan 28, 2014 · These were amongst the only ROLEX watches produced and allowed by ROLEX to appear without the name ROLEX on the dial. This watch also retains the original ROLEX winding crown. The movement is the original 17 jewel manual wind and keeps perfect time.
Ladies Rolex caliber number - NAWCC Forums
Feb 15, 2015 · Hello. I'm looking for the caliber number for this Rolex watch. It's probably from around 1960-1970's. The balance staff is broken, want to find one to replace, but can't find the caliber number on the movement. (or parts number for this balance staff) If anyone know, or the books have movements info to buy, please help. Thank you in advance. Mike
Rolex before the bubble - NAWCC Forums
Jan 1, 2025 · The father of Rolex, Hans Wilsdorf (& brother in law Davis) began his company importing and assembling and distributing pocket watches. However, he anticipated the aesthetic shift towards wrist watches post WW1 and threw his considerable business skills in that direction, although continuing to offer some pocket watches into the 1930's, and ...
'30s Rolex Oyster questions - NAWCC Forums
May 12, 2009 · And a scan through the Bestfit fingerprint pages gives no clue that Rolex 500 or 700 interchanges with any other caliber (other than its close Rolex relatives, including Perpetuals). As I read it, at one time, Oyster related to Rolex in the same way that Tudor relates to Rolex today. There were Oyster movements, and Rolex movements. Long story ...
Rolex Datjust 14 or 18K gold? - NAWCC Forums
Feb 16, 2011 · I did look up the numbers on the jubilee braclet of my watch and the number 14 is clearly stamped. So maybe my watch, described as have a gold linen dial, not champagne, is an early caliber 3035. It is just that I had heard that all two-tone Rolex watches made after 1980 were 18k, and this roused my curosity.
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