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Gen bezel ring, gen dial and gen hands. -- then gen movement.. so overall how much would have that cost? I hope still not close to the gen watch. Anyway goodluck with this modding.. good for you that you have the tools. Do let me know how everything turns out.

Let me know too sander.. I am considering sending it to speedy as he said he thinks he can do it.. but that's not an assurance ofcourse.

If it's the same as using the A7750 hands on a Valjoux 7750, broaching is the better route, but gentle pressure has been known to work as well. This is from what I have READ here (see the A7750 movement swap references in my Noob Guide for details)...not practiced.

Sure I will read it. He told me the main chrono hand has a virgin hole (meaning it was really tight) but he was able to pull it off.. the minute and hour hands was easy to fit thou. While the subdial hands of the portuguese he gave up trying to fit them.. He told me he doesn't have the broaching tool needed.

You think this is a good broaching set? http://www.jewelerssupplies.com/Broach-Set.html

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I don't know where a longer cannon pin and spacer can be obtained for this project thou.. I hope I can hear a feedback to those who were able to fit a 79350 to a portuguese here. Or maybe its the same case for ingenieur..

I don't know.. he just fitted the main chrono hand with no problem I guess. But normally I read you need a broaching tool to fit that.

Hmm... what do I tell my watchsmith then?

My watchsmith is actually trying to fit it.. there seems to be a problem on spacing he says.. that when he fits the crown to the case its not aligned anymore.

The rep dial and hands (except the subdial hands) are straight swap thou.

Anyway do let me know.

Has anyone fitted an IWC cal.79350 movement to the IWC Portuguese rep case? Is it a straight swap or there are problems fitting it?

I saw a member fitted a 79350 on a rep Ingenieur.. But has anyone fitted a 79350 on their Portuguese?

It looks like the 79350 movement is a bit thicker than the A7750 movement..

Before I paid 59$ just for shipping alone.. lol. But that's another story. Well you atleast got a watch.. and feel free to experiment with it.

Seikos have 36000bph movements out there.

An Alpha male response rather than bitching because he's not getting any. Awesome!!!

Whatever movement it should look like its still is a beautiful movement in there.

Hmmm.. what should the movement look like?

The one on the lowest left:

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Its really sad to read posts like this.. but if you have the tracking# and does it say to which country it got lost? (It should be as it is recorded). If it got lost in his country he should really be helping you with this loss.. Hopefully it still appears like what happened to Dani, after being told that the watches has been lost in the PO, it suddenly appeared.

So it could grab attention.

It's not fake. No Panerai on the watch also.. Thou it looks like one.

This was pinned in RG and some people over there made a downloadable file for all the movement care. And its all free over there.

Hi vmena,

Nice IWC. I read from some posts before that you can fit the 28.8k hands on the ETA 7750 by broaching them. I just don't know what that means and how to really do it.

is little hero 13 years old or has he been doing watches for 13 years?

Yep LH is 13yrs old only.. he has been doing watch repairing and making since he was 7. lol.

Can we see pics?

Yep we better be careful as Hublot is really persistent in taking off Hublot reps, etc.. Most dealers websites before where shutdown and hope this won't happen in forums. As they know they only have the Big Bang model to be proud off. lol.

Oh ok I get it now. Thanks The Zigmeister.

What do you mean by 3 asian 7753 movements? Isn't it 7750? Actually rolexfinder told me he may have to ask his watchmaker again to make another one for him.. haha. Maybe he's paying him right! lol. But yes I hardly see any HBB rep with Swiss 7750 on it, I guess it is that painstaking to do that's why.

I can't seem to find the thread about the project DuDro, do you have the link? I am interested in reading it too..

Yes I also think if its a Tuiga its not worth doing the gen movement route as it is closed caseback anyways.

I just checked the thread where I got the HBB, and I got it for 425$!! If I remember plus with 25$ shipping.. then my friend watchsmith fixed it for me (thou he doesn't want to get paid, I gave him 50$) and right now its still running great!

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=83592

I am the only one that I know of that has ever done this modification. In fact I have done two of these modifications and will never do another, it's a nightmare and extremly difficult to do, so you sir have a collector's piece

RG

Oh really? Thou I got mine from RolexFinder and he told me his local watchmaker/smith in Thailand did it for him. Got it for 550$. But it seems like the datewheel is an ETA DW and not from the A7750.. hmmm.. don't know how his watchsmith did it maybe there's another way? If its a nightmare for you I now retract what I said that its an easy task for a watchmaker! And an impossible task for amateur modders like some mems.

It is pretty reliable still keeping time, I bought it from a member here. Thou I don't know what he did to make it work for a HBB rep. All I know is you have to have it modified in a way you have to get some parts from the A7750 and bring it together on the swiss 7750. I knew this as I read a thread before people talking about it.. If I remember right ajoesmith knows what to do and some others too.

I think it is easy for a watchmaker to do.. Maybe some mems here will chime in and share their knowledge for you my friend.

Some have done this before and I actually have one HBB with swiss 7750 in it. But it was modified by getting some parts in the A7750 and combining it with the Swiss 7750. And that's it you already have the gen movement.