I bought this camera for 10€ in the Emmaus Community store of Bougival, a place where people that are trying to get a job are helped by the foundation that was created by the "Abbé Pierre".

As found. The camera has been "restored" by someone that put contact paper imitating wood everywhere and never finished the job. The whole thing was partially disassembled. One 620 spool was still in place.

One of the levers of the shutter was not working and the shutter knob was missing. 

The leatherette of this side was missing. This viewfinder was completely foggy and it is perfectly useless since the side of the camera covers half of the image that can be seen through it. Very poor design. Looks like an after-thought. I drilled the two rivets to get access to the inside of the viewfinder.

Out! some gray cheap-o leatherette on sight.

I had to cut the studs of the rivets to remove them. 

The studs had to come out through this slit.

I used leatherette from a XEROX binder I got in one of my trainings. I glued it with double sided tape. (that white thing is the tape still covered with the paper)

The tape unprotected.

The leatherette is glued. I trimmed it with an Xacto blade. It is easier to cut the leatherette once is glued in place.

The rest of the camera stripped. Lots of rust and a tin that is so thin that it can be dented with the pressure of my finger.

Same technique to cover the rest of the camera.

That little stud is riveted to the piece of tin underneath it. The rivet is a little bit loose and there is no access to it. I tried to hammer the stud putting a steel blade underneath and, apart from making some noise, it did nothing.

I ended up wrapping around some copper wires and putting a small drop of crazy glue. It worked fine.

I fabricated a knob with the tip of a heat sensor of an old deep fryer. (don't ask...)

I fabricated a wooden block to raise the viewfinder from the camera body and covered it with the same leatherette.

 

Same double sided tape technique.

I drilled two holes to the block and found two screws that will hold in place the viewfinder. The screws come from an old  Apple laptop.

The viewfinder in place.

Finished camera. I did not had to detach the strap because I did a slit on the leatherette between the two rivets that attach the strap to the body of the camera. I did also two small round holes to fit the two rivets. The slit, once glued in place, is invisible.

One side.

The other side.

The back.

This camera should had been covered in gray leatherette, but being quite honest, I was not going to go crazy to find gray leatherette and the camera is so low value that originality is not a must. Like this, it makes a nice addition to my shelf. Before restoring, it was a piece of rust in one of my drawers.

This camera was very often a fair gift and it can be considered a toy. PRECIDES is not even a brand.

I'm going to adapt the camera to accept 120 film and shoot some pictures with it.