In my book, vintage Accurist watches are underrated. They have great Swiss ebauches movements, in this case, a Peseux 7006, look great, and go for next to nothing on eBay.
Very clean design – light, beautiful watches.
Let’s have a look inside ….
Peseux finishes their standard movements very nicely – look at the barrel wheel.
Nice and tidy bottom plate arrangement. Simple, but reliable.
Now it’s time for the top plate.
The gear train.
Parts ready for cleaning.
I start the reassembly with the top plate as usual.
The blue “Accurist” is disputable, but overall, a very nice looking movement. All screws polished.
And the bottom plate done.
Movement cased.
Go on, admit it, you want one!
With the mainspring wound just a bit, this is great performance.
I bought this one on eBay for £15 incl. postage. Beats a lot of watches, and certainly any fake. So if you have a small budget, but you want a nice watch go for one of these, and leave your hands off the horrible fakes that are out there. I’ve fixed a few, and what’s inside is rarely pretty. What’s inside this one is very pretty!
Hi I bought An Accurist gold plated with date had to replace Stem&crown and mainspring, 1 issue. Is the minute hand is to loose after watchmaker worked on it.
I paid R80 100 shipping R240 repairs Total R420
Rand? Rouble?
I couldn’t agree more! I bought a couple of really beautiful looking Accurist off eBay for stupidly low prices, nice movements and attractive. I wrote to Accurist to see if they had any sort of historical database and was amazed to hear that they have no real interest in talking about their history/heritage. Odd. Underrated and modestly priced.
15£ for that? Sounds very underrated indeed… I would have guessed much more.
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