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Location: Linn County, Oregon
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About all I'd suggest is contacting a good watchmaker, a person who services old watches. Cindy spent more than the watch is worth getting her mother's old Ladies Hamilton going again. It involved having a goldsmith make new links for the band as well as having the watch refaced, the mechanism cleaned & lubed. But...for nostalgia reasons it was worth it to her.
The guy who did the refacing and servicing is in Corvallis, Oregon...
Back In Time
Watch and Clock Repair
Art Fish, Watchmaker
590 SE Lilly Ave.
Corvallis, OR
541-760-3829
Cindy wears this watch on special occasions, or just when she feels like it. It functions well. The old mechanical movements are pretty amazing, thinking about it.
(edit) I should warn you...the entire process, from the watch being taken it to getting the links made took about a year.
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