Timex watch repair

[kyle3rv2]

Vostoks are cool I've technically had two. One was replaced under warranty. I took it swimming and in waist deep water with the crown tight it took on water. So if I'm ever going to take a watch of any noticable price in the water again I'll get it pressure tested first. Vostoks was cool about it though replaced it free and I think the warranty was already expired. I haven't tried working on anything more complex than Timex yet though. The Timex watches are very simple and intended to be serviceable by the average person Timex even gave instructions to the public on how to do a service on them.

Put a band on and did a quick crystal polish.

That's quite impressive that they gave the instructions out. Kudos to them. Some of the work I need done should be really simple. Just swapping out hands and dials and maybe regulating the time. But finding someone competent that wouldn't charge an arm and a leg has been the issue.
That's a really cool looking watch you have there. It's bigger on your wrist than I thought it would be from previous pictures.
Is that a Perlon strap? What width strap is it? I have two Perlon straps and really like them.
I'm actually wearing one of my Vostoks on a 22mm Pelon today. You can see it in my SOTD picture today if you are interested.
Great job on saving that watch BTW.

It's is a perlon 20mm width. These old American watches don't use metric lug widths though so it's actually like 19.5mm or something so it's slightly squeezed in. I've revived probably ten old Timex watches now. I've killed a few learning sadly but they were in junk heaps anyway. I've got my process down now and almost all the Timex movements are nearly identical. It definitely is hard to find someone competent to work on a watch. Sent an old Bulova out to a professional for servicing. Came back with misaligned hands and the caseback half off. Last time I let someone mess with one of my watches was a battery change on a new old stock Reebok watch and they took a chunk off the case. Also checkout meranom I've heard they will swap the faces and things on vostoks they specialize in them. Sadly you'd have to ship it to Russia though.