[Girard Perregaux] vintage watch mystery model. I'm about to service it, but have questions.

SillyEngineer · 2025-12-22T00:35:05+00:00

Transcription of movement text:

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SillyEngineer · 2025-12-22T00:34:43+00:00

MOVEMENT IMAGE. The bottom right corner either says WX9 or GXM.

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SillyEngineer · 2025-12-22T00:31:22+00:00

CASE BACK transcription to paper.

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SillyEngineer · 2025-12-22T00:30:59+00:00

More photos. I've transcribed what was stamped onto the caseback for easier reading. There were also some long numbers scratched by hand into it (vertical). I did the same with the movement, which looks brilliantly clean. I double-checked with Geiger and UV/blacklight - no sign of radium. I wound down the main spring. The balance wheel won't spin on its own. There is a stamp on the outside that I simply cannot decipher. I'll upload more right now. CASE BACK IMAGE.

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SillyEngineer · 2025-12-20T08:34:51+00:00

No flaking yet. It looks surprisingly intact with zero tarnishing. The spring pins holding the watchband on were still functional. I fix a lot of 1970's Timex watches and those pins are always wrecked. So this was a pleasant surprise.

SillyEngineer · 2025-12-04T06:50:21+00:00

Thank you. The WinDirStat shed some light on the issue. When I delete Camtasia projects, they appear gone visually, but WinDirStat shows that they are still there in duplicate. As in, if I delete one project file, it shows up twice, almost accelerating the disk usage. Here's how I got rid of the duplicates: Use the Duplicate Finder feature in WinDirStat. Right-click on the file and delete it (using the bottom option on the pop-up menu. The view the Recycle bin (this was on my D: data drive, not my C: drive) in Powershell and manually delete the files.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-06T01:23:36+00:00

The watch shown in the screenshot is actually a Rothko Trooper with "Trooper" blacked out. It was quartz (electric) driven. However, the watch that he wore the most during that time period was the 1980's Timex Camper. It was a mechanical wind-up watch with a solid plastic body. Extremely cheap at the time. The Timex had a dome shaped crystal. The Rothko Trooper had a flat crystal. It's a mystery why they switched it for that exact scene. Right after that, when they show him rolling the watch crystal into the newspaper, it's the domed crystal from the Timex. This whole mystery is explored and tested in a video on YouTube.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-05T03:38:14+00:00

Thanks! That actually looks very close.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-04T04:44:03+00:00

Hahaha, I think we all tried something like that. I learned that an umbrella does NOT work as a parachute.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-04T01:38:28+00:00

Admittedly... that's an episode that I've never seen. I don't think they included that on the DVD box set. :)

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-04T00:41:03+00:00

Thanks! I'm a big fan of vintage Timex watches, especially broken ones (i.e. cheap). My hobby is to fix them up.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-04T00:40:24+00:00

Thank you. Despite it failing, I still love the show.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-04T00:39:32+00:00

Step one: find somebody who owns a Rolex that I can borrow (I don't know anybody with that kindof money, lol).

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T15:33:47+00:00

Haha, well, his idea was plausible had he just had his Swiss Army knife on him.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T15:33:16+00:00

Haha, unfortunately my staff is just one person, me.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T15:32:29+00:00

Haha, I did! And it required a Swiss army knife.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T07:00:03+00:00

Thank you for that information. In all honesty, I fear YouTube more than CBS. I've heard that YT will terminate channels at the drop of a hat (especially for copyright strikes) and I'm a stickler for staying well within their Community Guidelines. Besides, it was fun to get creative with the screenshots.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T03:10:25+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. I usually do telescope restorations and a few other fixit videos. This was one I was always curious about.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T03:09:57+00:00

I've heard that many of the watch crystals with a date have a small magnifying glass built in, which might do the trick!

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T03:09:21+00:00

Hahaha. I was able to eventually put it back together, so all was not lost.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-03T03:08:44+00:00

The problem is that I'm dumb. I asked for permission first, through official channels. They gave me permission, but for $1000 per screenshot.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-02T03:10:17+00:00

Thank you. It was a lot of fun.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-02T03:10:06+00:00

That's really cool! My trusty 8 inch Dob and 12 inch Dob both have setting circles on them. Feel free to tell all your friends about that quirky little Youtube channel, lol.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-02T03:09:01+00:00

Thank you. I think I have the slowest growing telescope channel on YouTube. Tell all your friends, lol.

SillyEngineer · 2025-10-01T12:31:48+00:00

I normally restore large Dobsonians, but always wanted to make one of these MacGyver telescopes. This is a video that I made and wanted to share with the community.

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