Good afternoon, can anyone service this late '70s Mickey mouse watch? It has a Swiss pin-pallet movement. I'm not sure it's ever been used, and it runs but I would like it serviced before I give it to my parter.
Thanks.
Have a search on the forum but I think we’ve had this before and pin pallet movements are inadvisable to service because the movements are rivetted together rather than screwed. I have a recollecton that Walkerwek may have written something about this.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Try ' The Watch Bloke'
The Watch Bloke is booked up. Any other suggestions?
Do you recall if a replacement movement is an option in place of a service?Originally Posted by Carlton-Browne
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If somebody could replace the movement i would also consider this
Best if you read these yourself:
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Apologies if I appear to have got my Mickies confabulated with my Snoopies.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Thankyou, much appreciated!
Just saw one of these in the Design Museum in London - Private Joker's one from Full Metal Jacket as part of the Kubrick exhibition:
I have also been to that fantastic exhibition and was very pleased to see that. It looks like a late Ingersoll or possibly an early Timex. I watched the film recently and there isn't a clear shot of it.
Last edited by AndySquirrel; 8th September 2019 at 18:58.
It is quite honestly the best exhibition I've ever been to. Absolutely superbly curated, extremely well organised and extremely interesting too. It's not often you get the three combined!
This looks very similar to Private Joker's watch https://www.collectorsweekly.com/sto...ey-mouse-watch and it looks like it could be a unauthorised Hong Kong copy of the Ingersoll/Timex Mickey watches. A fake Mickey Mouse watch!!!
Last edited by AndySquirrel; 8th September 2019 at 19:39.
While i'm on the subject, I just found this colorized photograph of Buzz Aldrin https://twitter.com/madsmadsench/sta...10149398044672
Check out his watch
Last edited by AndySquirrel; 8th September 2019 at 19:52.
The Hong Kong one does look very similar. The one at the exhibition was brassy though, rather than silvered (presumably the coating had worn off?).
It's a shame I didn't get a better shot of the watch - I daftly assumed that there would be only one version from this time period using MM's arms as hands. But clearly not.
The Aldrin photo is great - on a NATO?
Edit: just a single piece one, perhaps.
Bit of an old thread revival but just saw this whilst searching for something else.While i'm on the subject, I just found this colorized photograph of Buzz Aldrin https://twitter.com/madsmadsench/sta...10149398044672
Check out his watch
I have a NOS Mickey Mouse watch, exactly the same as Buzz’s.
One of the problems with collecting watches is that they are expensive but if you look beyond the obvious, there are quite a few interesting options.
The Snoopy connection with the Apollo program is well known but Disney was also involved, making the animated sections of films for NASA for example.
Mickey Mouse watches were at the height of their popularity in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, worn by everyone from John Lennon to the Emperor of Japan.
It’s said that astronaut Wally Schirra wore a MM watch on Apollo 7 - I haven’t seen a photo of that but one of the leading collectors told me he has seen a photo of Schirra wearing his MM watch in the capsule. Schirra’s watch was an Ingersoll on a black “Mod” strap. The Ingersoll has a cheap movement - think it’s only one jewel.
Next up was Gene Cernan’s on Apollo 10, kind of ironic with the Snoopy names given to the spacecraft on that mission. Cernan’s was given to him by Bill Wheat - leader of the Blue Angels display team - and that same MM watch had actually been given to him by Vice Admiral Bernard Stream - worth looking up these two names as they are both very interesting characters.
Gene’s MM might also have been an Ingersoll but could also have been the later, higher quality Swiss 17 jewel version which was only sold at the store on Main Street, Disneyland, called “Ye Olde Shoppe”.
These later 17 jewel Swiss MM watches came in two main versions, the first made by Hamilton and had an arrow-shaped second hand with a red pointer and “Disneyland” on the dial, under the 12 hour marker.
The second version was made by Swiss maker Voumard for Windert watches. These 17 jewel versions have a straight black second hand and do not have “Disneyland” on the dial but instead have “Walt Disney Productions” and “Swiss Made” on the bottom of the dial.
These last versions are the “Swiss 4 liners” (!) - the 4 lines of text read “Mickey Mouse”; “17 Jewels”; “Walt Disney Productions”; “Swiss Made”.
It is one of these “Swiss 4 liners” that Buzz wore for his official USAF photo (see above) when he was Commandant of Cadets at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after he left NASA. By this time things were, shall we say, “changing” for Buzz, so the highly visible Mickey Mouse watch was no doubt deliberate and probably summed up just how he felt at the time.
Bear in mind that Buzz was based in California back then and that this particular watch could only be bought from Disneyland, Anaheim - the “Swiss 4 liner” was the only version being sold at that time too.
The cases of these watches are plated base metal so pit badly and do not age well. Last year I was fortunate to pick up a NOS “Swiss 4 liner” in California, identical to Buzz’s. They even come on a black USAF/Maratac-type strap, which looks a bit like it’s military issue.
Regards
Jon.
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