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A Waltham Vanguard RR Watch: How The Power Reserve Indicator Works by Robert Porter

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A Waltham Vanguard RR Watch: How The Power Reserve Indicator Works by Robert PorterThis is the story of an interesting watch repair to restore a fine old 16 size, 23 jewel, Waltham Vanguard railroad watch with power reserve indicator, which peaked my interest to understand how the power reserve indicating mechanism works. I could not find any useful information about the power reserve mechanism in any of my many watch repair books, nor could my watchmaker friends, some of whom had taught watch and clock making, help me. The solution

This is the story of an interesting watch repair to restore a fine old 16 size, 23 jewel, Waltham Vanguard railroad watch with power reserve indicator, which peaked my interest to understand how the power reserve indicating mechanism works.

I could not find any useful information about the power reserve mechanism in any of my many watch repair books, nor could my watchmaker friends, some of whom had taught watch and clock making, help me. The solution presented here is my own method of figuring out the input to output path resulting in the angular movement of the power reserve indicating hand.

The calculating method presented here has also been used to unlock the secrets of chronograph minute and hour indicating mechanisms as well, an example is included beginning on page 11.

The designers of this top-of-the-line Vanguard railroad grade watch really knew what they were doing, considering that watch design calculations were done by hand with paper and pencil. The transistorized hand-held calculator was not available when this watch was designed. I had the advantage of using a Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator which made calculations much easier.

As watch enthusiast, we are also avid collectors of nuggets of knowledge about the miniature time machines we repair and collect.

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Louis G Stephens
Birmingham, US
★★★★★ 5
Awesome for $37.00
Color: Blue Face/Silver Strap, Color: Blue Face/Silver Strap
Amazing quality at a low cost. I really enjoy this watch. Looks more expensive than it is. I love the look of it.
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Douglas Price
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 5
Buitfiful watch
Color: Blue Face/Silver Strap
Buitfiful watch with a good weight. The size adjuster only really works though if you unscrew it completely and just push the pins out with that. But other than that it's a buitfiful watch.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2026
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joe
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 4
Nice watch, But,…..
Color: Blue Face/Silver Strap
Watch is really nice but I’m having a problem adjusting the watch band to fit my wrist.
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Margarita Garza
Whiting, US
★★★★★ 5
Totally worth it!
Color: Blue Face/Silver Strap
This looks better in person. I had purchased it for my husband as he was looking for a dress watch. This is perfect! The watch is beautiful and the packaging is beautifully done. I'm beyond happy with this product and plan to buy another one in a different color for my son. Definitely go for it and buy it. It's worth it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2025
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Massapequa, US
★★★★★ 3
Beautiful, but......
Color: White Face/Silver Strap
This watch is beautiful but.....! I bought 6 OLEVS watches for my husband and this is the only one that im mad at. Out of 6, this is the only one that I had pins strip when I tried to remove links. Very unsatisfied with the pin quality on this specific watch
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