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I think I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow with some magnification. I might just not have seen something keeping things from settling in together. Eyes aren't what they used to be close up, you...

My two replacement crystals arrived today. This is the smaller of the two:

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Looks good, but...

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So close!! That's as far as it will screw down. So... question for you pocket...

Cool!

Can you set it with the lever moved out? Could be a "lever set" watch? I know next to nothing about these things, but did stumble across that a while back! :)

I may have stumbled into a possible place for you in my search for replacement crystals (based in Ottawa):

https://ashtontracy.ca/

From the website:

"Swiss-trained watchmaker Ashton Tracy’s...

Once again the varied wells of knowledge of the folks on this site continues to amaze. :)

Thanks for the info John!

Nelson: no luck with the polishing, so my guess is the seller was accurate in that it's celluloid as the yellowing appears to be right through the material and not just...

The face is a nice bright white, but the crystal (XTL? Oh great... a new set of vocabulary to pick up! :) ) has yellowed. I'll likely get a glass replacement one day, but for now I figured I'd at...

Having just picked up my first "real" pocket watch, I reckoned this was a good time to revive this thread. Mine is a Waltham from 1898, beautifully worn (see my sig below for Neil's thoughts on this...