Homemade Conquest Crown – will it work?

A little background - since the first time I saw Ulackfocus’s Conguest I’ve been looking for one of those and a little while ago I finally found one (sorry for the dust on the crystal). I'll dare to call the dial mint. I'll let the pics speak for the rest. Two of the lugs is bend a little, but I hope the watchmaker can fix that. Here the pics:



Crown is not original, though, and the original type is very hard to come by, so I decided to have a little fun trying manufactory one myself. First step was building a cad model and for that I needed good pics and a couple of measurements of an original. Dennis (Ulackfocus) was very helpful with both pics and measurements of his (thanks again Dennis):



Result of cad work:



Next was the cnc milling the back:



Then front. Tool diameter is 0.2 millimeter (0.008 inch) – the smallest I’ve ever used 😀



Finished and a little polish ahead:




The idea is to try finding a standard crown, lath it down, and press fit my crown on it. The watch and crown is now on the way to Christian (Watch Guy) in the UK, for a service, where he also will check, if it’s the whole thing is possible or not. If he says good for it, next move is to decide:

1) Gold plating the crown.

2) Use my crown to do a rubber mould and cast a copy in 18 or 14 karat (will there be noticeable color difference in 18 vs. 14 karat?) .

Anyone know if these came gold plated, or as a gold cap, from the factory?

Any input welcome.

And yes, I know it’ll not be exactly as an original, but for me it's close enough until finding something better…… 😀 If it's thumbs down from the watchmaker - well, I've had the fun then 😀

If it's thumbs up your message box will crash🍿

WOW, what an amazing bit of machine work you've done there!

I believe these were gold capped, however proper plating should work just fine. Making a mold and casting will probably loose too much crispness and detail.

14 and 18k gold do have a different color, although it depends on the exact alloy.

Ok, that is deeply impressive, well bloody done mate!

Thanks guys, and great article, Ulack..... 👍

Even better a completely solid, flush fitting version of the number 6 endlink sort of built like the 808 internally but no.6 looking externally as an aftermarket part for daily wear. Number 6's are such rubbish for what they are, would love to keep mine in the safe and have a solid alternative.

Amazin'! Is there a firm that did this for you from your CAD work, or do you have access to the hardware?

All work by me and my machines 😀

Amazing work!

Truly, a craftsman!! Keep this up and you will have a ton of requests from the members here!! 👍

Oh wow, really impressive. Please tell us more about your family of machines 😁

Not much to tell, I'm afraid - just a CNC milling machine and some manuel machines 😟

Thanks - I'll remember that if Christian say good for the project. I know he use this place http://replateit.com , though, but if you can do the same, it would be easier, if not being forced to ship it to Canada..... I'll leave the decision to Christian, though.

Thanks.