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Beauty ! Plus 1 on the movement choce, fresher is better. My 2846 is sitiing in the parts box as well waiting for the same service. Looks great! What band is she goung to end up on?

Any one have recomedations? I like the clasp for a cheap 1675 build I have on the bench. Is it worth the eighty clams? http://www.yukiwatch.com/catalog/item/6784664/9897852.htm

Hey man look at torros no date sub. Its in your price range, not having a date saves you from two things 1 misaglined / justified date wheel. 2 crystal issues , no cyclops no anti reflective coating no worries. Like the guys said above, take the watch when you get it to a friendly watch repair shop and have them pressure test it, $20. Just be straight with them, "hey I've got this watch its not real but would you mind pressure teasting it for me." If there cool, which i'm sure they will be later on down the road the may help you repair it or grease the o-rings. Your at $208 for the watch & $20 for a pressure test. I'd absulutly email TC and get a new band, $55 ish shipped. Your over budjet by $80 but will have a nice little rep, not to flashy (deep sea) just right.

You did great. As with Kime my first real shot at aging was a 1665. Now, I didn't hit it with a lighter but I thoughly trashed it. Its a great way to devlop our special skill set. Sounds like you have a great attitude moving forward. Subtle vintage is sexy!

Love it.

Totally, I'll take two. I'm a total sucker for wasting my time. $35 for a new movment or three hours looking for flying microscopic springs, plus another couple hours dicking around with $&&@$&@$! Now the date won't advance.

These two links helped a little. Funny as I reread the part about removing the date wheel spring (i refered to it as the pawl spring) and the technique of pulling it out through the date wheel plate. I removed the plate first and would not do it again. In my parts box I have 5 or 6 dead 2813s and luckily I was able to scavange date wheel springs from them. The energry in that little spring is just enough to send it flying across the room and out a window lol. Lost 4, recoverd 2 the next day. http://forums.watchuseek.com/f72/lesson-iv-romoving-date-module-actual-oiling-408354.html#/forumsite/20758/topics/408354 http://www.watchstuff.org/?p=140 Next issue I had to solve was an extra gear that had stuck to the date wheel plate. I'm so glad I snapped a picture of its position before pulling it off the plate. Because of that photo i was able to locate its place. The newer 3804 has a different date advance gear (name?) thats driven by the keyless works. The older movement that I'm using has that gear running (same spot) from the works up and over the date wheel plate almost holding the date wheel in place. I had both of these instaled and couldnt figure out why the plate couldnt attach. When I pulled the new one it all came together nicely.

Beautiful and a classy plan for your wife.

Missing gear solved. Paw issues, lost 4 springs yesterday. Found one and am holding on it for dear life.

Or a simple walk through if you've done this before. IE date wheel , Paw, top plate. Its the gearing to that top plate thats binding me up. Thanks for anyinfo.

This is the movement, should be complete and ready for the date wheel and the top plate. The gearing is -not- coming together cleanly when I attempt to attach the plate.

This is the topside of the "main cover".

I have two GMT movements, both a little different. I'm at the paw spring and paw. Date wheel is next but I've got an extra small gear. And this is where the two movements differ. A link would help. Thanks

1675 in blue. Cant take it off.

BK GMT back from VAC

While working on a basket case 1680 this morning something unexpected was created. The 1680 case had very bad things done to it mostly with large drill bits. No matter how much I tried to salvage the project it was a loss when the epoxied (yes, I said I'd done bad things) tube came out. For some reason I pushed a clark tropic 39 from that project into a random case thats been in the box for years. IT SNAPPED RIGHT IN?? so then I went through all my inserts and found a ceramic that fit as well. After that it was tap the case to 3x.35 instal a tube and case the movement. The dial was a little to big so I attached it to a drill and spun against some 600 grit (dont try this at home, note ring below hand stack) how ever perfect fit. Self lumed, Gen crown, Miyota, clark 39 and tube. Out of the Jaws of Defeat the unexpected will happen Enjoy

Parts box build this morning. random case and ceramic insert, clark tropic 19 and tube, miyota dressed in 5513, gen crown

Much more elleqent then my rambling. Reads exactally with what im seeing. Taking it back apart.

Aloha all! First post in a looooong time. I just moved the hand wheels from one eta to another to get H4 from H2. I pulled the hour and minute wheels no problem. Can of worms with the flip and removal of the second hand wheel / post. Got every thing back together (after twice losing the god da** fk** n little spring that stops the ratcheting wheel) but somthing is Monkeyd up. When i wind the movement is spinning the hand wheel. Whatd i miss? Thanks

beauty !!!

A quick set, BK GMT 2c, BK EXP2, 1675 & 1680

live shot from yesterday. The Explorer at sunset on Valentiens

Been a while, Lets go canvas 1665 DRSD, paired with a 5513 insert (SeaFighter) on this aloha Friday

GMTc on canvas @ Emerald Bay

Looking sweet! Where's the DLC from?