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JimInOz
路路Melbourne AustraliaIt's always good when you have a stack of packages that you need to open.
Wonder what's in them?
OK, I won't be a teaser, here's the booty.
From top to bottom, left to right, or the other way, whatever you prefer.
1 - Polished chapter ring
2 - case
3 - Plain polished bezel
4 - Set of hands
5 - Crystal
6 - Plain caseback
7 - Dial (Hmmmmmmmm, no dial shot 馃槖)
8 - A movement
Regarding the movement.
I have a nice new Seiko auto (+ manual wind, + hacking + date) caliber NH35.
As the observant among you may have noticed, the dial has no day/date windows, so the mechanism for date is superfluous, so it comes out.
A quick look on the Timegrapher looks promising for an unregulated out of the box movement. Maybe I'll be able to get it a bit better.
Now that the movement has been modified, it's time to get biblical with the dial.
It's designed for cases with stems at 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, so it's provided with four dial feet.
Two of them have to go!
I could use a grinder (noisy, messy), or a pen knife (danger! sharp objects), or a pair of cutters (leaves a tag). After seeing how these little feet seem to fall off dials when you don't want them to, I decided to use the "horizontal applied torsion technique".
That is, grip the dial foot in a pin vice and twist it off.
Due to my incredible twisting skills, the operation was a success.
Now to the big bits.
A nice crystal is fitted to the case.
Quickly (but carefully) followed by the polished stainless steel plain bezel.
The shipping stem is rather unattractive, so it will be replaced by a brand new stem.
DAMN!
That's NEVER going to be waterproof.
Back to the drawing board.
That's it for today.
Comments and guesses welcome 馃槈.
Wonder what's in them?
OK, I won't be a teaser, here's the booty.
From top to bottom, left to right, or the other way, whatever you prefer.
1 - Polished chapter ring
2 - case
3 - Plain polished bezel
4 - Set of hands
5 - Crystal
6 - Plain caseback
7 - Dial (Hmmmmmmmm, no dial shot 馃槖)
8 - A movement
Regarding the movement.
I have a nice new Seiko auto (+ manual wind, + hacking + date) caliber NH35.
As the observant among you may have noticed, the dial has no day/date windows, so the mechanism for date is superfluous, so it comes out.
A quick look on the Timegrapher looks promising for an unregulated out of the box movement. Maybe I'll be able to get it a bit better.
Now that the movement has been modified, it's time to get biblical with the dial.
It's designed for cases with stems at 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, so it's provided with four dial feet.
Two of them have to go!
I could use a grinder (noisy, messy), or a pen knife (danger! sharp objects), or a pair of cutters (leaves a tag). After seeing how these little feet seem to fall off dials when you don't want them to, I decided to use the "horizontal applied torsion technique".
That is, grip the dial foot in a pin vice and twist it off.
Due to my incredible twisting skills, the operation was a success.
Now to the big bits.
A nice crystal is fitted to the case.
Quickly (but carefully) followed by the polished stainless steel plain bezel.
The shipping stem is rather unattractive, so it will be replaced by a brand new stem.
DAMN!
That's NEVER going to be waterproof.
Back to the drawing board.
That's it for today.
Comments and guesses welcome 馃槈.
