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by MKTheVintageBloke » September 25th 2017, 8:51pm
Perhaps a stem from another movement, by the same manufacturer and of the same size would work. Or, you can look for a parts donor movement - which won't be easy, if (as you say) not a lot of them were made. Certainly easier than finding the stem alone. Aaaaand, with parts being obsolete, it never hurts to have a stash of one's own.
As a last resort, you can have a new one made, but it will be costly. And when I say "costly", I mean costly in the strongest meaning of this word.
By the way, did you check the movement in the Pocket Watch Database? Usually, there are two quantities given - one of a particular production run, and the other one's the total production of a movement.
Can't help you much with American pocket watches. American PWs are a bit of a terra incognita to me, mostly because I've never paid much attention to them. That may have something to do with the fact, that most American PW (and trench watch) fanboys that I've encountered couldn't see the world outside just that. Their masturbatory odes to various railroad grades and whatnot had me lose any interest in the topic, and so did their off-the-trolley allegations of these watches being superior to anything made elsewhere. Long story short, I'd rather get impaled on a cactus than join that club.
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