Hello Gents, I'm hoping somebody out there can help me please?
My old 1970's Breitling Navitimer 806, Ser: 1343421 has been stopping after about an hour.
I'm currently having it serviced, local to me in Suffolk but we've hit a snag.
The movement is a Venus 178 and I’ve been told that a Minute Jumper (spring?) part no. 8270/1 is required.
As you are aware parts for these are rare as hens’ teeth, but we found one in Australia and had it shipped over.
Much to our dismay we found the part was the wrong one when it arrived, so we’re still searching around.
The problem we’re finding is there seem to be a few variants of the Venus 178 movement, but the part numbers remain similar.
Does anyone have one of these jumpers, know of the whereabouts of one or a maybe even a compatible part that would fit from a similar movement for example.
I’ve seen what appears to be a very similar part on a Venus 175 on YouTube, but again there seems to be a few variants of the 175 movement and none of the advertised parts on eBay are the same.
I've posted a photo of my Venus 178 movement and the part required on Photobucket and also tried to attach it here as well.
Any information will be gratefully received as I’ve scoured eBay and have run out of ideas now.
Many thanks for your for your time, I hope the link to Photobucket works but if not let me know.
https://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp2 ... VEMENT.jpg