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BTW when you say chrome ring i am a bit confuzed as the gen has a mat black tention ring

upload the photo to photobucket and then insert the direct link code I am just painting the rehaute of a speedy mat black to try to match a tention ring colour so you dont see the step

I did a conversion on mine, i ended up glueing the plexy in but it works very well, if i had got the next size up i think i could have pressed it in and i may do that next time. Have a look, if you need me to order a crystal i can.

Knew that you would know where you left it Pug

You would be better lifting the whole bezel insert out and putting the new one in, try to get a thin but stiff peice of platsic between the bezel and crystal and work it round untill the insert comes out then glue the new on in, I remember that pugwash did a tutorial in this when the UPO first came out

nope, tell him to find a new watch smith

I only post here, I used to mirrow between TRC and RWG before i made this place my hone but TRC is where it all started for me.

I feel left out, i never got one

Unfortunatly trial and re-trial untill it fits the way you want it.

An Uncanny resembalence there!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks

Oh a quick warning with the dremill brushing tool you may need to think about safety glasses, you can get quite a bit of debris flying off.

Very nice watch, the bit of missing lume just makes it look authentic, Wear it well

You will have to ask Nanuq about the right temp for a roly rep

An Ex 2 with a new luster

Well it ok, but thanks.

Gio i put mine for the more heavily abused bracelets here Guys this is no means a competition between Gio and I it is simply two ways of doing the same thing and i had a good example of a sratched bracelet at home. Gio where do you get you polishing cloths from? I would like to give them a gio, and do they smell nice, vanilas good but i would not mind a coffee smelling cloth.

As a follow on from Gio's refurbishing of a brushed bracelet i decide to do one with less than cared for bracelet, one my wife has been wearing, now before we start i should tell you that my wife has the most authentic looking SOSF because it looks like it has been industrial diving, ie big dings in the bezel and scratches so deep in the bracelet it looks like she has been going at it with a hack saw, about once every 6 months i sort this watch out and make it respectable again. So here is the test piece, a 3 year old ICHS cream dial EX2 from Silix, not a bad watch but not top drawer material, i must admin it did not get worn for a while since the GMT hand used to lose and hour a day but once i gave it a clean and a bit of D5 on the GMT drive pinion to provide a bit of stiction it work just fine. The other bracelet you can see is a brand new Ingy one still sat on the plastic i just took it out of. We will see how it compares at the end. I have a watch stand that I have glued a bit of leather on to so that I can get a bit of a bend in the bracelet while i do the brushing, it helps me I don't know how you would find it but it is better then brushing the side of your finger away. We are going to be using a dremill brushing pad, now these cost about €5 for 2 you get a fine one and a course one, this is the course as i wore my other one out doing a case and bracelet for VikkyRob. I am also using a small polishing tool powered by 4 AA batterys, I have a bench flex drive i could use but i want to show how you don't need special or expensive tools. The trick with the tools we are using here is not to try to go with the grain but to do the opposite, with the motor running and the pads spinning in direction with the grain I will go slowly from left to right slowly moving down link by link, trying to avoid slipping off the edge and you will see why later. If you try to go with the grain it will not be straight your brush lines will look curved. So after brushing a few links let us look at the difference against the test piece A second photo as I got it in a different light as I am photo mong but you may see the difference better Be careful these can remove a lot of metal if you want I have managed to remove deep engraving from the side of a case with this in very little time Once this has been brushed I use a scotchbrite pad and this time I go with the grain gently smoothing out the lines from the power tools, these pads are a little gentle, I also have the proper brown ones that you pay (how much for!!!!!!) but I left them at work so this will have to do. So I will now brush the rest and then we will look at the sides Remember when I said don't slip off the sides well I did, As this bracelet has polished sides and I slipped off and scratched them, but they were going to be polished any way, so now we change to tooling to polishing mob and some blue compound I like, I find the dremill stuff too waxy. What we are doing here is replacing big scratches in on direction with smaller ones in a different direction I polish first @ 90 degrees to the scratches and then @ 45 then @ 125 then with the scratches until I can no longer see them just a few seconds at a time, then I start all over again with the next link. you will note that I am holding the bracelet with a tool for pressing out pins in links and a bit of leather, again it works for me. Once I am happy with the sides Not bad for 10 min work It is out with the cape cod to give it a polish, now I like cape cod, I like its smell! And you can see here the dirt it is lifting out of the grain.. After a buff with a cloth and an inspection it is off to get all the rest of the dirt and any cape cod residue out, so it is in to the oven on gas mark 4 for 30 min (not really) or 3-4 runs of the ultra sound cleaner. So now lets look in comparison with the test piece I would say that is a big difference and once you have used the brushing tool all over the strap it will take off any shape edges and make it all silky smooth So now back on the watch that got a bit of a rub down while I was waiting. Gio mentioned that you need day light to see how this is in real life so I wore this one today for work, Sorry about the pics but I never was any good at that, all i have done to them is crop them and auto process them an in a few cases made them lighter so that you can see what we should be looking at. I hope this is helpful to you all, I would not say that you will get RSC results first time but given a bit of practice with a polisher you will get good results, please also bear in mind I have been playing with polishing mops since I got my Harley in 93 so I have a bit of experience. I Hope Rob has a look at this as he has a case and bracelet that was mirror polished and he wanted brushed, so he may be able to get some better images of how it looks.

To Say it is a swiss movement i would say is streching the truth in many cases, it may well be an ETA movement but i realy dont expect it to have traveled all the way from Switzerland to China to be fitted in my watch, a more reasonable explanation is that it would have been made in an ETA factory somwhere in Asia/China hence an old word being reincarnated toady :- Chiss or Swinese

I would say that is moddable, drill through the dial glue a counter sunk plate behind that and put a light blue painted dot under all that. The hardest bit would be getting the paint in the hole that you drill to match the rest of the dial.

Looks like a nice box for the price!

I just refinished a pretty badley scratched EX 2 bracelet and i will post it tomorrow once i have some dsay light photos.

I would pay a dollar niot to see it. But i am glad to swee that no one has posted here fpor 2 whole weeks, it looks like eventualy people are getting the message. Good keep it like that! Got to hit the post putton with my eyes shut now so i dont see that monster

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A good tutoriial Gio, i would just ad that if you are going to use a bench polisher it may be worth removing trhe bracelet from the head, I have done a lot of polishing and it only takes the smallest lack of concentration for that mop to rip what you are polishing and send it across the room, infact for any of the steps above it is worth removing the bracelet. My wife has some very deap scratches on here SOSF so i will try to do a tutorial on removing them