toasternz Posted March 9, 2016 Report Share Posted March 9, 2016 Hi folks, this movement is in a Cartier Santos (mid size) that was purchased a year ago from Trusty. Timeographer shows its 21600BPM. Rotor width is about 18mm. The movement needs a service so I need to identify it! Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligoat Posted March 9, 2016 Report Share Posted March 9, 2016 Possibly an eta clone- certainly has eta characteristics- slot to remove stem, dial hold downs, gears. But it would help with better pics- can you take the caseback off, show us the front face? is it small- possibly an eta 2671... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toasternz Posted March 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) 16 minutes ago, alligoat said: Possibly an eta clone- certainly has eta characteristics- slot to remove stem, dial hold downs, gears. But it would help with better pics- can you take the caseback off, show us the front face? is it small- possibly an eta 2671... Thanks for this! I have just now found the Trusty Time invoice and it says 2671 on it, so your probably entirely right! What confuses me is the BPM is definitely 21600, whereas I thought 2671's were all 28800. So question for you or others - obviously the movement is a copy, is this just a crappy lower BPM 2671 copy? Thanks again. Edited March 9, 2016 by toasternz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligoat Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 I always go to Ranftt to check out movements- a great source of info http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&ETA_2671 So yes a Swiss 2671 would be 28,800 bph, but it looks like your clone is the 21,600. I had a 2836-2 clone that also was 21,600 and my only regret was that my watchmaker wouldn't service it when it quit working- watchmakers can be funny that way- dealing with clones isn't as easy sqeasy as working on a Swiss eta. Here's a movement on ebay- maybe you just swap out http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-ETA-2671-automatic-movement-mouvement-Werk-/401085957050?hash=item5d629603ba:g:CMoAAOSwu1VW4Ubp Or you take your clone to a watchmaker and see if he'll work on it and what the cost would be. Once a clone is serviced, it should be ok for4-5 years, I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toasternz Posted March 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Alligoat, your a champion, thank you for that! Based on this, because it must be a 2671 movement, SSTEEL from this board (he's in Findland) can service it, so am going to start there. It's good to know I can also source a second hand movement on Ebay if that goes bad. Again thanks for your time here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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