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I'm partly back actually :-) Some of my machines are still in storage but I can accept some jobs.

Dimensions of the 14060 and 16610 are not the same unfortunately. 14060 uses the Sd 16600 insert with a smaller internal diameter so you would have to just remove the cyclops from 295 crystal rather than fit the correct 285/6 crystal. The dial might also be too small. Someone else who might have tried this may comment too. Let us know if you try with any success as many would like to create a nice 14060! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Case Tubes: 5300, 5310, 6020...$10 5330...$14 7000, 7020...$17.50 7030...$22.50 Crowns: 300-8, 300-9, 530-0, 600-0, 603-0...$20 530-8600-8, 603-8, 700-0, 702-0, 703-0...$35 702-8, 703-8...$75 Crown P/N ending In 8 = Yellow Gold Movement Parts For Most Calibres: Balance Complete...$160 Balance Staff...(pkg of 3) $18.00 MS Barrel With Arbor...$20 Center Wheel with Canon Pinion...$25 Clutch Wheel...$8 Great Wheel...$15 Mainspring...$11 Pallet Fork...$32.50 Ratchet Wheel...$12.50 Reversing Wheel Mounted...$25.00 (Mounted = complete assembly) Rotor...$60 Rotor Axle...$8 Set Lever...$12 Winding Pinion...$6.50 Stems...(pkg of 3) $13.50 Screws...(pkg of 3) $15 Screw Set For Complete Movement...$25 Casing Parts: Tropic Crystals...$15.50 Cyclop Crystals...$17.50 Sapphire, Ladies...$90 Sapphire Mid Size...$100 Sapphire Gent's...$110 Crystal Gasket...$6.50 Flat Case Gaskets...(pkg of 3) $12 Round Case Gaskets...(pkg of 3) $16.50 Case Tube Gaskets...(pkg of 3) $9 Bezel Inserts...$30 All prices in USD plus delivery charges. Typos are free.

Polywatch is what I’ve used before but metal polish will do the trick. You don’t need a Dremel, just a bit of cloth and a few minutes rubbing! It should look 100% better than it does now.

Ref 1010... 14K Bombe from early 1960s. It still looks like new and I have owned it for about 30 years.

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This is terrible news Bob (Nanuq) was such a great individual. He cared and shared. He loved Alaska, his Land Rover and his family more than watches. He made som great posts in the old day like the one about the TRL and the one where he flame torched a ROLEX (Bob's Thermal test No.1 is pictured below). I will allways remember you Bob.

just WOW !!! you did a great job ... Mine says hello ... I built it 2017 if I remember well home made Burford dial, fixed bars and 2 parts steel/german silver bezel ... a long journey ... it's been a box queen's for some years but now I've seen yours my wrist ask for it ...

and here it is

A quick one before assembly: et voila…

"Brother, now your have crossed over the just showing off!" Yeah, it's embarrassing. The truth is since I have worked around this stuff for a long time, it does not seem out of the ordinary for me or anyone else who has worked or is working on watches to have an accumulation like this. There are also two Bulova parts cabinets, boxes of crystals, and stuff crammed everywhere in the shop. I am not alone in having parts (and projects) all over the place...I have a friend who works on high grade American pocket watches, vintage American/swiss wristwatches etc and he has a two car garage full of tools, watches, and watch parts plus a shop in his house. "Although I will change my opinion if you will send me red box number 2…" Red #1 has mostly 1570 autowind and train parts, red #2 has a few 1570 balances complete, one 3035 bal/comp, one 2135 bal/comp and assorted 15xx parts but my guess is the blue box with crowns will be worth the most if not now, in a few years. Almost all of the crowns are the earlier style with steel or gold caps crimped over the base and they are no longer available new (except from eBay etc) so if anyone wants to keep a vintage watch close to 'original' they will need the earlier crowns. They are mostly for 1960s to 1990s models. Used crowns are beginning to be worth some $$ now and a lot of the used crowns in the plastic bags are pretty good too. They are mostly gold capped crowns, SS crowns were not changed out as often. Genuine acrylic crystals are Ok to have but some of the aftmkt crystals are very good.

"They make great mulch, too." I saw a bumper sticker that said they taste like chicken, it might have been rattlesnake, can't remember. It's been drizzling rain all day so nothing much going on. I went back to the shed and found two more riveters in one plastic bag and noticed the bracelet right above the tutone bracelet in the roll is also a rivet. Here are the two in the bag... I didn't just turn it around, I turned it over, there is a card between them and a bracelet on each side.

Interesting point of view. I for one don't think there's such a big picture... I think we vintage watch lovers are not so many. Most people want plain bling and a 100K€ vintage Daytona just isn't visible enough on the wrist to thrill the uneducated crowds. There are two kind of reps : modern and vintage. Modern is mass made and yes brands are fighting against it. It's perfectly understandable. Vintage on the other hand is a totally different picture. Never was it mass produced (for quality items. The only mass produced are jokes really...) and that very fact shows the clientele pan is limited. So they are handmade. And pretty much always by afficionados. Even the vietnam made ones are made by people who were collectors at first before it became a business. And I might add : not a lucrative one. If I count my labor for example I must make someting like 5 to 8 euros an hour... Hahahaha !!! Yeah... What a joke when in my real line of work I won't lift my pencil for less than a hundred an hour. So it isn't for the money at all: there isn't to be made. Just the thrill of creating dream pieces and cracking the small details that makes a piece a great piece. That patina, that unique lume color, that unique dial shade of brown... All those makes every build a thrilling experience. Personally: creating those timekeepers is a real therapy away from the real life. I meet you there . Your head must be free of anything else to achieve a good job. Mostly now that my sight is slowly decreasing.... I now need to pay more attention and I can't work a weekend straight on a watch. Let's all fight for our hobby to live despite that hostile world my friends !!!!!

I have to agree with the earlier response that since the parts issue has become a huge problem, there has been very little happening in the replica world. I have a lot of unfinished projects that I took up prior to parts market drought. In particular with eta movement parts that are not only expensive but also hard to find. I have been in limbo as to whether to wait and see until something that I need comes along, or just dismantle everything and sell for parts myself. This is a difficult one for me as I am in different minds on different days. How much worse for those that have invested a lot more into this game than myself!!!!!! I too believe that the short supply parts issue has also been an agenda in the horology world, purely to stop repairs and in particular to destroy the replica market as nothing else has deterred people from buying replicas. Then there has been the big raids on the factories!!! Too much happening to say its just ' coincidence!!! Nobody is going to spend big $$$$ on a replica that may break down early in its stage and then there are no parts for maintenance. This is a good plan for the big brand company's to put a stop onto this hobby of ours and also so that genuine watch buyers buy new watches all the time. One watch repaired is one watch less sold!!!! What the big brands fail to see is that in a way the replica world is indirectly providing them free advertisement as replica buyers will always ponder on the fact that they may own the genuine product and I assume some already do!!! What puzzles me is that the same way we hobbyists have found this forum to share our like minded interests, so too can others that are not on our side. Who knows what spies the big brands are using to monitor what is happening out in the real world and also what we do and therefore plan ways to make it harder for us? Has anyone ever thought of this? It is sad to acknowledge, because this hobby has given me a lot of emotional and mental therapy when I have been at my worst and I have never done it for financial profit, just as I can assume with most of others here who have purely lost money to enjoy what keeps us ticking (excuse the pun). Money isn't everything, but the way the trend is going, it appears to be that Big watch brand companies are not interested in the satisfaction of their consumers but purely PROFITS, PROFITS & PROFITS!!!! Just my opinion only!!!!! BTW Welcome back Rolojack, this has been the best news so far!!!