| Recently at the Watchmakers AGM auction there was a lot consisting of four Seiko spare parts catalogues. Since Seiko's spare parts policy is to keep the parts in stock for 20 years and since the catalogues were from 1971, I was the only bidder. Quite frankly the bid was just a courtesy because a fellow watchmaker who dragged them in would pay five dollars to get rid of them. Yet to any student of horology, watch spare parts catalogues are often of more interest than the parts themselves. And there it was, a data sheet of Calibre 9119A. A 15 jewel movement in production from 1961 to 1971, used exclusively in Japanese railway watches. Every single component, with catalogue numbers and full descriptions. Absolutely priceless. |
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