Let's see your current projects

One nice 51-2273... Progress!

It counts if that’s where you keep your watches! Looks secure enough..... 😉

That is one of the cleaner ones I have seen. These bezels never look like that, the lume is stunning, you grabbed a good one.

Beautiful watch Dan. Maybe I'm going hunting for one as well. For years I want one but somehow I've never pulled the trigger. My brother got a couple of them. Those sea wolf are great watches.

I won’t go into the long version of the story but here is my project 145.022-76. Short version is noob tax on a case that I thought looked better in pictures than it was in hand.
Before:

After:

I am pretty pleased with the results. Pictures don’t do it justice. The 4:00 lug especially had lost most of the definition and angles but it looks really sharp now without going the “bar of soap” route.

Well. I've received a picture of the end result.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/res...iki-what-to-do-update-endresult.127577/page-2

I got a update as well. The KonTiki project has ended but a new record project will start soon. But I'm still waiting for customs for the record...

A few also on my side :

A seiko 6105_8110 in a very nice shape (case and dial, movement not needing a service, coming with original bracelet) from the son of the first owner but unfortunately with badly relumed hands (as confirmed by fellow OF members) so I had them relumed too with James Hyman in the UK and got a new crystal from Mr Klein in the US. All are sitting somewhere at my watchmaker for being put back together

Another simple one : this one coming from a fellow OF member, a Lemania calibre 3000 with a very nice dial / indexes. After checking (thanks @Northernman ) it seems the hands were not correct so I got some NOS ones from the bay, again at my watchmaker for being reassembled together.


Another one that should not be too complicated : a nice omega 30T2 with a dial I very much like but missing lume on the minute hands (and I've got the feeling - wrong ? - they have already been relumed too at some point). I'll send them over to James Hyman when it arrives. Yes I'm now a big fan of James.


And the last project is a more complicated ? one with a long story that I've started mentioning in one thread. I'm now very close to finalize this but...not yet. To keep it short, I realized I purchased (before I joined OF) this Croton CASD V23 from a professional seller in C24 with the wrong hands 😡 (baton instead of broad arrow, I realized this thanks to this forum, this being later confirmed by the authors of 'chronometer only book', a book I finally purchased - should I've done this first). In the meantime while the watch was in for a service with the previous local watchmaker during the first covid wave, it lost some lume from the indexes😲, when I got this back the watchmaker had retired 😲. The good thing is the V23 movement is in a nice shape.

So chronologically, here is what happened in my quest to put it back to its original glory :
- I luckily found a NOS dial - exact match - through C24 from CH, 😀
- got my WTB thread partly answered by a fellow OF member with the hour and minute broad arrow hands from US, 😀 but without any lume left.
- send those hands to the UK to... yes you've got it James Hyman, 😀 who did a great job reluming them and 'cleaning' them.
- worked with him to find some fitting subdial hands from eBay that he managed to 'un-blue' by nicely polishing them, 👍 (and there again I got some good advice here in OF)
- send all those to my watchmaker to finally realized that the hour hand was not fitting correctly and so I had to look and find a new hour column wheel 👎 which I did 👍. (Thanks internet as I'm really not an engineer type of guy but you find everything nowadays, unfortunately that was not my watchmaker who really helped me here but some fellow OFmember again pointed me in the right direction : thanks @Archer)
- and now that it was all for reassembly then again my watchmaker tell me the sweeping central chrono hand is too long... Having checked on the eBay seller ad, it is said that it should be easy to cut to the correct length... I'll see if this can be done properly.🙄
Those project looks like 'house' project when you know when you start but don't know when it will end 😉 I hope I will feel 'proud' of myself when this watch will be back to the look it had when it left the factory (BTW I'm still interested in original subdial and central second chrono hands in case someone has that...)


Anyway that's what is in for me right now.

Have a good day

I have one update from my former cue (Favico is fixed and missing lume plots filled and matched) but I have added a few more 🤦
At WM, ready for pickup

Have several parts movement and correct second hand- I bought this for the case and dial- should be stellar when done

At WM ready for pickup Dial cleaned up beautifully, running +6

don’t know want to make of the back stampings, not like other Ord watches own- but it’s a Waltham

Dead as a door nail- I have fresh NOS dial and hands, waiting on crystal then off it goes.


Cutie sparkle dial for my lady- in cue for service



Runs like a top- just needs a crystal and the lume on the hands filled and stabilized

DOA, the mystery to me is the second hand- unlike most I have seen so figured w replacement, it it is a lumed second hand in the style of the period, so not sure what to think

My second Elgin Miami. Running very fast out of the box. Hairping is probably hung up

Clebar came DOA and I knew it, but I also had a spare movement which is what’s in it now. Will be sending the factory movement off for service,

Update with 2 happy ending


The other two are still pending 😀