Been fettling today. Well a jewellers has.
First a new battery for this baby. The last jewellers it visited said that the watch was F ukd. It isn't. It is nice to see it working as it was a prize; it flew in next to the Vulcan, flying with Andy Hill, who then presented it to me, and also who sadly has appeared on an aviation thread recently.
Secondly a new strap for this one. My grandfather's watch. Butchered by an Edinburgh jewellers 40 or so years ago, who removed the secondhand spindle rather than fix it. I wasn't given the second hand, or the spindle. Which, according to my local watch guy, means a rather hopeful eBay search for the part. The mechanism is standard, but the added moon/date/month/day bits mean that the some parts are very rare.