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Crowns...wear 'em if you got 'em! Q...Why am I posting all this watchjunk? A...Because I have hunted two days for the escape wheel and train wheels for my 5500AK project. ..seven or eight hours total (while cleaning my 'shop' up a little). I finally found the parts in one of my parts boxes, hiding in a small clear plastic cup inside a dental floss box! Like a dumb-azz, I hid it from myself by putting it in the dental floss box. Q..Why put the parts in the dental floss box? A...To keep the lid from coming off the small plastic box containing the parts. It has happened before. Anyway, while digging through a bunch of stuff (including a bunch of crowns), some TC crowns turned up in the mix. New Genuine... They all are the older style for watches made before the 'monobloc' crowns came out. Some owners want the older style crowns to keep their watch like it was when new so I keep them for repairs. Do not have any monobloc crowns or watches that came with them unless my 14010M AK has one. I doubt it does because it has the old type bracelet with removable hoods. Take offs... Some good, some not so good. I posted these once before iirc. TC 'Trophy' Crowns... These crowns are very good except the clutch springs sometimes get weak. 'Trophy' = they are getting hard to find so I figure I might win a Trophy for finding mine. Ha! I got them October 5, 2012. No comment. Happy Crown Day!

Still wearing The Big Kahuna (116520)

Ratty pic of my Aquinus 200M diver... Took the Harley Ronda lady size 15.2mm X 18mm (6 3/4 X 8 ligne) movement out and put a 23.7mm (10.5 ligne) Seiko/Hattori (aka TMI) VH31A in it. The H & M hand sizes were the same (1.20 and .70), but the SS hand tube had to be squeezed down a bit in a lathe collet. The main hassle was the larger movement needed different movement spacers and had to be held to the dial by 'dial dots' while putting it all together. Two of the spacers had to be sized by trial and error to hold it all in place using pressure from the case back when screwed down to clamp it all together...this is what took most of the time involved. The VH31A is a little bit thicker than the HR and the stem mounts higher so the screw down crown needs some fiddling when screwing it down to keep from messing the threads up. Luckily, there is some slack in the crown's telescoping stem tube and that helps a lot. All considered, it came out Ok and ticks 14,400 times an hour instead of 3600. Cost of the conversion was about $12 or $15, plus still have the 'semi new' HR movement. Seiko Instruments (SII) VH31 / VH31A watch movement | Caliber Corner Generic rubber strap and clasp. The watch came with a heavy steel bracelet. Someone else put some watches up, I'm looking like a Post Hog!