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Hmmm... You guys have kind of convinced me. However can't go ETA. Will have to cut dial feet and broach/crimp hands. Updating with a recent pic.. Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk

Thanks and sorry for delay. I share some pics from some last proyects m working on it: This is a moded V72, working on balance, then i need to gold couple wheels. Those are cortebert 616 moded to 618 I can make almost any bridge part, engraving and other watch parts. For the angelus 240 for example i made all stem wind parts (including clutch wheel and winding pinion). Regarding to Keeper, dont worry when i publish any thing to sell will consider that. PS: english are not my language. Regards Jorge

"But for the money I don't think a franken with an eta 2836-2 movement can be beat..." I agree 100% but it took me a long time to figure it out. Nice DD and 5508! I've had a rlx 1556 since 2014 but no dial, case etc. It's full of diamond dust/Cheeto chips etc because the guy I got it from busted diamond melee out of gold rings over the drawer where the movement was stored. I never c/o the mvt because I have not needed it but it looks good. The pecker heads scrapped the case and bracelet!! With a good case, dial, bracelet and 28xx ETA...you can crank out a real nice DJ. So I gathered up the stuff to make a tutone DJ semi-stein but TT went out of style about that time. "when you switch from 15xx to ETA, did you clip the dial feet and use stickers?" On one '1016' with a 1570 in a genuine rlx 16220 case (put together in 1997), I used a genuine rlx 1016 dial so I packed the dial away after taking the watch apart. Another '1016' from 2008 had an oem spec aftmkt dial so I cut the dial feet off and put the dial along with an ETA 2824/2846 'combo movement' in a JMB case. I made a movement spacer tall enough so the dial could be cemented directly to the spacer. On the MBK '5512', I used a Yuki oem spec dial and kept it as/is for now. When I put an ETA in the MBK case, I used the dial that came in it with dial feet for an ETA 28xx. I used a cleaned/oiled nos ETA 2879 movement with the MBK dial, ST hands/case tube, ST/Clark bez kit, GS crystal, and genuine crown. The 2879 runs fine but does not keep time like a fresh 2824/36. My guess is plus/minus 15 or 20 sec/day depending on type of activity. The winding rotor is on a bushing, not a ball bearing but I doubt that matters very much. The MBK '5513' Frankenstein' case is stored away and the 1520 rlx movement is apart for c/o. The DW '1680' Frankenstein is still packed away in a box since March 2014. There is also an MBK '1680' F-stein that I did not mention...it was put together and taken apart but never worn. I cut the dial window out a hair to accommodate a 26.5mm oem spec dial and was going to leave the movement and dial from the DW '1680' in it but removed them after trying them for fit...the genuine dial/mvt worked fine in the MBK case. Then I put the mvt/dial back in the DW case. I also machined a genuine 'like new' 162xx case to accept an ETA 2836/2846/2879 etc in 1997 but never used it (I cut the dial seat about .4mm deeper in the case). Looking back, I should have left it alone because 162xx cases are bringing good $$ now. I still have the 'like new' 16220 case from the other '1016' and It would make a super nice '1016' if someone like R-jack detailed it into a '1016' and put a rlx 1570 and genuine dial in it. 162xx cases: I bought a few 'like new' 162xx and 152xx cases at watch shows in the mid 1990s when buyers were picking up steel sapphire DJ/OPD for converting the movements to Day/Date and putting them in 18k cases. They sold the steel cases and bracelets to get rid of them. Times (and prices!) sure have changed. Maybe tutone will come back in style.

Agree. Park the project for a few months, forget about it. Come back to it later with fresh eyes.

@hologramet I know it's frustrating losing something valuable like that. I've lost the pieces to a very nice Red Sub build and an extremely rare extremely early Sub build this year. They went to a top notch builder that has quit replying to me. Yes it sucks. Yes I hate it. I'm sure you do too. But you still have everything you need sans that movement. My advice is to keep going. You're emotionally invested in it and you can't put a price tag on that. I think it will mean a lot for you to press on and finish this.

Modded case Dial Hands Crown Gen crystal Mark 3.5 insert with trit pearl Everything except for a 24-7030 tube and movement. As a set. PM for details. Prices = The ones written in original post. My purchase prices are lower than market value, so I ask the same if selling something. Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk