I have the Model 3894, "57 Reissue". After getting it and using it a few years, I had its stainles bezel and broad arrow hands removed, it's like a modern Speedmaster except for the dial.

I'm thinking of putting the alpha hands and sweep seconds on there for something different. Anyone tried this yet?

Wes Grau (CMW21) will do this for me, he lives "down the street" in FIBLand.

Tom

 

I did this recently, First it started with the bezel and hands, put an old DON on it and the FOIS hands;

Then decided I really just wanted to make it look like a 2998 for daily wear, one I didn't have to worry about beating up and wanted it to glow in the dark to be a bit more functional. I found some white leaf hands and I like the spear Chrono better so I changed that over. Then I dropped it into a 64' straight lug case for grins today;



Have to say I LOVE it. It will Probably make the Vintage die-hards cringe but some guys really like the NOS SM300 WatchCo builds and I think this works really well. Maybe next I will swap the bezel to new stock and save this DON so I can truly call it a beater. Oh and a silver tension ring should finish it off nicely.

Good luck and enjoy the project!

 

Speedmasters are just so much fun.

 

the only thing we really care about is honesty.

there's nothing wrong with modding your watch. It looks great

 

@speedyfan, did you say you started with a '57 reissue? Got a pic of it before mods just for giggles?

 

I'm glad to see that you verify that everything fits well!

Tom

 

Sorry no, I can't seem to find one but it did indeed start out as a 3594.50 (looked like this image taken from internet), Now I have a SS bezel and silver broad arrow hands in a drawer;



Yes Tom, everything fits well, minute hand runs out to the track, it's not "short" like the Seamaster hands. It is a really straight forward swap. Here is another picture when I changed just the bezel and main hands with straight chrono hand, retaining the silver subdial hands. On mesh, a totally different look again;