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The restoration is completed. I went ahead and used the crown that was on it. It looks well enough. The band is a Timex marathon. For those looking for stems, 11OKACB and uncut new old stock 11ULCB watch stems are compatible. Just don't cut off too much the first snip. Repeated stem filing gets the

I too have found one of these at a thrift store for next to nothing. It needed a movement swap which I did getting a donor watch from eBay for $35 with the exact same date movement M9 and type 11OKACB (AS1906). That movement had the common problem of a slipping friction pinion for the hour and minut