automatico Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 sneed 12: "When a movement has a Novodiac shock spring and the retaining clip has only 1 notch, it's a clone." True....almost always. I have a genuine parts junker 2836 with a fouled up HS so I removed the balance and HS from an 'unknown clone' and installed it on the genuine 2836 balance [censored] (balance c-o-c-k is the proper name but it gets censored) with the three notch Novodiac shock spring and away it went, keeping good time. The only difference was the HS stud was a little bit loose in the fork that retains it so you squeeze the forks together a little. Not much way to tell if this has been done. Clone 'balance complete' sells for around $20 on eBay. This has probably been done to some of the 'genuine swiss Etas' in replicas etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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