I have a fair collection of Citizen Navihawks, many of which have been bought either dead, or partially working.
Up until now, I have sent the watch to Citizen UK and for what I consider to be a fair price (£68) they will fix it (which I suspect involves just swapping a new movement in - the C300).
Today my most recent Navihaw arrived - and to be honest from the single listing photo, I was quite dubious about what I was going to get (the picture was out of focus, but what I could see from it was potentially worrying).
Still, I only paid £44 for it, and it has a dial that I hadn't seen before.
Here are some pictures ...
A badly scratched crystal (oh if that was all that was wrong!!).
Interesting lume colour on the main hands - kind of orangy.
But, the worrying sign that I'd seen in the listing photo was more evident up close.
see those green 'pips' on the top sub-dial?
That is battery leakage ............... will it come off without ruining the dial?
It was also on the Citizen logo (above the word Citizen), and also on the 6pm sub-dial.
There's also evidence of damage to the LCD screen.
Here's the pesky battery:
The first thing I did was to drop the movement out to assess the damage to the dial, and also see what else was damaged.
Here is the inside of the case:
more battery gunk.
The next thing I did was to try and clean the dial. If this didn't work then that was going to be it with the watch.
However, those green 'pips' were crystallised, and gentle probing with rodico and a cocktail stick managed to remove all signs of them from the dial without causing any more damage than it had already suffered.
At this point I decided I was going to have a go fixing this movement, using the other dead C300 movement I had (which was already in bits having used a couple of parts from it when I did my C320 movement fix).
I must admit that I didn't hold out much hope, but figured it would be worth a go ................
Up until now, I have sent the watch to Citizen UK and for what I consider to be a fair price (£68) they will fix it (which I suspect involves just swapping a new movement in - the C300).
Today my most recent Navihaw arrived - and to be honest from the single listing photo, I was quite dubious about what I was going to get (the picture was out of focus, but what I could see from it was potentially worrying).
Still, I only paid £44 for it, and it has a dial that I hadn't seen before.
Here are some pictures ...
A badly scratched crystal (oh if that was all that was wrong!!).
Interesting lume colour on the main hands - kind of orangy.
But, the worrying sign that I'd seen in the listing photo was more evident up close.
see those green 'pips' on the top sub-dial?
That is battery leakage ............... will it come off without ruining the dial?
It was also on the Citizen logo (above the word Citizen), and also on the 6pm sub-dial.
There's also evidence of damage to the LCD screen.
Here's the pesky battery:
The first thing I did was to drop the movement out to assess the damage to the dial, and also see what else was damaged.
Here is the inside of the case:
more battery gunk.
The next thing I did was to try and clean the dial. If this didn't work then that was going to be it with the watch.
However, those green 'pips' were crystallised, and gentle probing with rodico and a cocktail stick managed to remove all signs of them from the dial without causing any more damage than it had already suffered.
At this point I decided I was going to have a go fixing this movement, using the other dead C300 movement I had (which was already in bits having used a couple of parts from it when I did my C320 movement fix).
I must admit that I didn't hold out much hope, but figured it would be worth a go ................