Ladies Omega Dynamic 684

sheepdoll

I just received the dial and hand set for my spare 566.015 case.

The seller accepted a BIN of 68UKP plus shipping charges as noted. Took forever to get here due to the UK postal strikes. Just arrived late yesterday. I ordered it when the pound hit rock bottom.
Been waiting weeks for it, which is not good for my eBay/Goodwill addiction...

I have a 671 movement in a case I do not like so am going to do a movement swap, with a 161.014 case that has a ratty dial.

This was discussed on the things with springs chat. What they call a fantasy watch. I may keep an eye out for another 671 movement. In the mean time, I will have a watch that I am more likely to wear, even if it is gold. The main issue will be that the 566.015 case may be for a calendar movement, so expecting the taller dial than the 671. May need to change the case clamps.

I ordered a male split stem today. I have another ladies Dynamic which I am working on that had a broken female stem. I got a new crown and stem, so have the extra crown. I bought this case, as I fell in love with the green strap that was on it. This case is also missing the threaded ring that holds the strap. eventually I will need to locate one of those. I think the threads are too fine for my lathe. I think I mentioned I do have a threading option, but lack the skill to make it work. Might be able to turn a temporary retainer from delryn and force thread it.

I want to make my own strap for this as I have access to a laser cutter. Thinking perhaps denim, although I have some red leather left over from a pipe organ.

Sweep hands for this model are going to be hard to find. Why I took a pass on your watch in favor of the one from Moldava. oFrie does list the regular hands, but no sweep. I have a seamaster 566.001 with an incorrect sweep. oFrei did have a sweep for nearly 40USD. When I went to double check the listing, it was no longer online.

I would encourage you to see if you can make a sweep hand. That is the sort of thing I would try to do. I did start to make clock hand with my CNC years ago, and just found it. There is a book called 21st century watchmaking, by the same guy who wrote the Esembl-O-Graph books. I keep meaning to write a review of it. I bought a spare lathe and all the grinding attachments. Diamond hone etc... Like many of my projects this ballooned into yet another big project. Grinding and polishing takes a lot of time and patience.

A hand could probably be ground out of an old piece of broken mainspring. Matching the tolerances of the stamped part is going to be really tricky.

good luck.

sheepdoll

I did not realize BIN offers were competitive. I made the offer on whim, as I was looking for the ladies 566.001 hand on oFrei. That one uses the 681 movement. I simply offered what it would have cost from the materials house.

did a search on the 066TP1413 reference and nothing came up. I suspect this is the most often lost part after the crown and crystal, and the easiest to damage.

I think I have about 250 to 300USD 'invested.' in my Rusty Valjoux Heuer. I think about 150 of that is shipping and taxes. And I am still going to need the minute register jumper. I do have the book and tools for making this part. Downside is the time. The author claims an hour and a half to grind it out. I think for me it would be more like a week or a month, especially as I would need to learn the grinding system all over again.

The easy to swap strap on the geneve dynamic is one of the reasons I decided to go for this style. Too bad the laser cutter can not carve metal (the reflected light damages the head.) Most metal is cut with either water, plasma or EDM which is a sort of controlled plasma. The surfaces in any case need to still be ground and polished.

Probably why I went to pipe organs. I got a thickness sander, and wood is much easier to mill out with a router, and can be laser cut.