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Horology - Clocks and Watches
Horology - Clocks and Watches

What do BXW and ROR mean stamped onto the movement.

Watch manufacturors often stamp a 3 letter code onto the movement. These are US import codes and generally only found on US watches. It's rather a big list.



MST_436
Why it's the best ever.

Why it's the best movement ever made.


Consumer right to spare parts, now law in some places

In the 1980s and beginning with Rolex, watch manufacturers began to stop selling parts... it went downhill from there and more pro-consumer legislation was made into law.


The Surprisingly Not Totally Boring Search For Who Invented The Spring Bar

It’s probably a good thing that nobody has ever asked me who invented the spring bar, because up until about a week ago, if they had, I’d have had to admit that I had absolutely no idea, and had never given it a moment’s thought. In fact, aside from occasionally cursing at one when it flew across the room during an ill-advised late-night impulsive strap change, I had hardly given spring bars any thought on any level at all for pretty much the entire time I’ve been interested in watches




springbars: The Surprisingly Not Totally Boring Search For Who Invented The Spring Bar
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-surprisingly-not-totally-boring-story-of-who-invented-the-spring-bar