Battery Replacement in a knock-off Rolex watch: - NAWCC Forums Most knock-off Rolex watches have a back that screws off like the original There is a tool that you can purchase from someone like TimeSavers but I can usually remove the back by using a pocket knife to engage, at an angle, into one of the little slots on the outside edge of the back and force it to turn in the CCW direction
Rolex 1520 or 1530 - NAWCC Forums I have a Rolex Air King Precision, it has a 1530 movement in the case, but it has never kept time, it will gain over 2 hours a day, I have done a little research on it and now I am wondering if at some time the base movement was replaced with a 1530 and it should have a 1520 , the 1520 beats at 18000 and the 1530 beats at 19800, I have put it
Help with ID on a Rolex - NAWCC Forums 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
Rolex i think its fake - NAWCC Forums 1 The classic giveaway is if the seconds hand moves once per second, meaning incorrect quartz movement Of course, a Rolex Tru-Beat or Oysterquartz ticks once per second, but yours is supposed to be a GMT Master that ticks five times or so per second 2 A GMT bezel should turn both directions, not just one
Rolex lube equivalents? - NAWCC Forums 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
Rolex cal. 59 question - NAWCC Forums I have two watches with the Rolex cal 59 movement: a Rolex Victory and Sky Rocket I know from research that this movement is a Font 30 modified by Rolex Both of the watches run, but have not been serviced recently (or maybe ever!) so I do not currently wear either However, I am about ready to service one or both of them and change this
meaning of OT SWISS TO on some vintage dials | NAWCC Forums Hello I am debating this issue with a so called watch expert on the ebay forum This lady tells that the "OT SWISS TO" writing on some vintage dials means the dial is a custom out of catalogue She refers this thesis to Rolex watch dials I think this is completely false since the same writing is present on many other watch brands
Is unicorn a Rolex Make? - NAWCC Forums They simply put good quality movements that were not Aegler(Rolex) movements into cases marked by Rolex If you noted, the Unicorn brand was also used by Rodi Wienenberger AG , one of the German companies in Pforzheim who imported Swiss movements and put them into locally made cases Rodi Wienenberger AG were active between 1934 and 1985
1530 60 70 cal Rolex movements. . . - NAWCC Forums I bought it from a retired Army Officer He meticulously kept the records for ALL of his watches His Rose gold 1950's Rolex Chronograph had two DIFFERENT reference numbers on it One between the lugs and one inside the case! He papers and records showing that his watch was run over by a car that Rolex had replaced the back with a case back
Rolex Datjust 14 or 18K gold? - NAWCC Forums 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