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Re: Retro-fitting automatic m'ment to Quartz - your thoughts

: I've a really nice Quartz 1000m Heuer diver & I'm considering
: retro-fitting an ETA auto movement into it.
: It runs fine, but it's not setting the date as it should. Now, I
: could source another Quartz movement (I'm sure I have a spare
: somewhere!), but I think that the auto would be better move all
: round.

: Would you consider this to be a bad thing? I'm all for keeping our
: Heuers original, but I don't think that this is a bad idea at
: all.

: Any thoughts?

: Stewart

Stewart,

If you can carry out the swap yourself, you could always just put the quartz movement safely away and re-fit it if you ever need to sell it.

Or you could just fit a new quartz movement and not need to keep setting the time every so often.... :)

What were you thinking eta 2824-2 replacement??....i suspect the hand hole sizes would be different.

Regards,

James.

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