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Many happy returns!! so you share the same birthday as my late father who would have been 90 today if he was still with us!

There really is nothing like The Real Thing.

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Thanks, I think it was a custom/ one off? I bought it a couple years ago on another watch forum. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

"PS: To the OP, the movements would be good, but the price seems a little high to be excited over." I agree. That is why I posted about c/o needed on most of them and to check on competing prices. When we had a watch store (closed Feb 2015), nos swiss eta movement deals were always around at low prices along with a lot of nos swiss eta powered watches. At one time we were offered nos in box, steel and steel/gold plate Gruen watches with swiss eta 2824 date automatics (Walmart closeouts probably) for $45 each iirc (would have to look it up), 100 minimum and nos Oniss president style day/date with swiss eta 2836 for $55 each ($55 for sure on the Oniss). There is one of the swiss Gruens on eBay now...item number 132049245694 and an Oniss item number 221999880668 Movements...we bought over 100 new Seagull ST6D and DG/NN/ST16 Miyota clone movements at $12 each for ST6D and $16 each for the others to swap out in cheapo fashion watches that we sold 6 or 7 years back. Now the DG2813 is $47.95 or 3@ $45.95 each and the ST6D is $42.95 or 3@ $41.95 each in the 2016 C-K Co. movement catalog #45. A guy in Miami sold us new fake quartz longines, cartier, and movado watches for $2 each back then and we bought them 100 at a time just to get the Hattori (Seiko) PC21 movements because that was less than we could get raw movements for. The PC21 is $5.50 each and 3 @ $5.25 each in the 2016 C-K catalog. The movados had two hand PC movements and they retail for more than three hand models. How in the world they could make $$ at those prices I will never know and it would be hard to believe some of the watch deals that are floating around even today. Most of the wholesale/closeout guys we know are HQ'd in NYC. We could get better deals on Japan quartz/China mech movements if we bought more but we did not need 1000 movements at a time. One thousand PC21 movements were about $2.50 each then and high quality Japan made 377 batts were $150 for 1000. The batts came in small white plastic trays of 500 with a thin, sticky plastic film covering them and holding them in their compartments. Last time I called on 377 batts (a few months ago) the best price was $230 for 1000. Why the increase? No mercury!