Re: Interesting movement

In article <12fm071e629ib26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Anthony Fremont <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bought a strange watch from an estate for a few bucks. It's marked
"Richard RADIO STOP". The movement and crown are even signed "Richard".
What's unusual is that when you pull the stem out, it hacks but it also
moves the second hand to 12:00 for easy time syncing.

The top plate has a crescent moon with a star in it. Apparently a
Phenix movement, but it doesn't match either of the two that Ranfft has
on his site. Richard Watch Inc. (Swiss) seems to be completely unheard
of along with "RADIO STOP". Anybody know anything? Seems to keep good
time.

Here's a pic of the front, movement pics to follow:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g143/afremont/Richard_Radio-Stop.jpg

I cleaned the silver dial today. Looks allot better if you can get past
the missing "17 Jewels" logo. :-( The other writing held up very well,
but that logo instantly vanished along with the yellowed shellac.

The dial was tightly wedged in the case, I had to remove the crystal and
press very hard to get the dial to budge. No real damage, but I'm
surprised at that fitting. There were "case" screws in the movement
holding the brass spacer ring in place. Very strange that the dial is
what held everything tight.


Richard is one of the weird "misc swiss" brands and made some interesting
watches. Although I've had a couple of Richard watches and like ones with
weird functions I've never heard of a radio stop model. Suggest you write
to Roland Ranfft, he'll probably know.

Here's one of my Richards:

http://rs79.vrx.net/interests/watches/gallery/r/richard/chronos/val77/1/


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