Hello all

[micus]

hello all, my name is Michael. Im a student from vancouver island Canada. ive joined your very interesting forum with the goal of hopefully fixing my watch and possibly finding out more information regarding it and other similar models, i think ive found the right place by the look of things.

ok so. this watch was my grandfathers, my grandmother saved up for it for a year before she was able to afford the purchase of the watch, i believe she kept it on layaway and made monthly installments on it so she would have something nice to send my grandfather during the war. The watch was sent to my grandfather sometime around 1939-1941 while he was serving with the canadian army in Europe. He wore the watch throughout the war and everyday until it stopped working sometime in the late 90's, he died shortly after.

my mother has sent the watch to rolex once without any luck, it was returned to her still broken, according to rolex the parts required to make the repair are no longer available so essentially i am SOL. ive considered getting the parts fabricated my a micro machining company that i know of locally but me being 100% ignorant as to the how watches even operate would be lost as far as asking for parts to be made are concerned and this is where im hoping to find information about it.

it is a 1939-41 vintage rolex oyster, gold in color if that makes any difference, it says "ROLEX OYSTER" and the word "PERPETUAL" underneath. on the back side of the watch in tiny lettering it says BASE METAL R.W.C. and the number 2940 under it.


if anyone knows any iformation regarding this watch or similar models i would love to hear it, or if anyone can point me in the direction i need to go in to get the watch slightly closer to working that would be AWESOME aswell, im literally starting from ground zero on this one, please forgive my lack of watch knowledge in general and thank you in advance.