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Great idea this thread, lani! I never dared to work on a movement, but I tried almost everything else, and what I can add is: 1. DON'T TRY to work close to the border of your table. Work at least 30 cm to the center. Exactly near the border of any watchworker there is access to a black hole and/or 4th dimension. All your small bits are guaranteed to get swallowed there to never appear again. Carpet crawlers are hopeful persons, and a nice song by Genesis, nothing more unfortunately. 2. Use extreme caution when screwing a stem in a crown. A bit too strong, and the stem will not be the only one to get screwed there. It's unbelievable how a 1-2mm long, 0.90mm diameter, small piece of metal can make you throw away a whole crown, and possibly turn a whole watch in a source for parts. 3. On removing a crystal, always use the largest dye that fits the crystal. 4. If you are going to use a smaller dye, then after it use pliers, not your fingers, to remove the crystal splinters from the watch. 5. Close the cat(s) out of the door. They love watchmaking, but they hate to hear you yelling at the watch / tools / black hole / etc. 6. Always pretend you didn't hear your wife calling for dinner. 7. Check thoroughly for dust and fingerprints before putting the movement in and closing the watch. 8. Don't mistake the blower for the sticky ball. 9. Don't look at the UV lamp while curing a cyclops glue. And especially don't hope it will make you tanned. 10. Try to put attention on where you lay your tools down. Spending 10 mins on finding back every single screwdriver, or pliers, or whatever you used, is time consuming and frustrating.

I seem to remember that also last summer there was a thread about it, triggered or involving Victoria (Vicky, where are you?). Try a search about it, maybe you can find some suggestions.

I happened to do the same just a few days ago. The Zigmeister you are our hero. Unfortunately my crown was a gold plated one. I am afraid I am fu**ed.

Congrats, wear it well! And thanks for the detailed report. Nice to know of a new good performance by Tony. Is the swan neck the dagger type? Would you mind to post a few shots? Of the movement back especially?

Take your digital caliper out and measure your crystal diameter. If it is 35.5mm (and chances are 99% it is), DSN crystal will fit.

Apologies for not mentioning you avitt, it seems I missed your original thread. Good to know!

Arrrrgh, (in alphabetical order): ajoesmith (Oz), kye_lin (Asia), rolli (EU), swdivad (Oz).

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I see that the back layer is black painted on the inner side... I wonder why...

It is clear you are not a newbie, Watch'nRoll. Welcome back to your old hobby! As the fellows already said, it is a 090. This model got quite low in price since its first release -- easy to find @ about 100 USD these days. If you are going to sell it with both the strap and the bracelet, 150-160 USD might be a fair price. If the caseback is the correct one, and/or the strap is good quality, you might go up to 180 USD. If you post a shot of the caseback, and if you add a few details about the strap, I might be more specific.

Yes, I would (no kids here, sorry -- as I already told). BTW, "your" country put lots of nuclear plants exactly at the border of my country -- so this is sort of an academic debate. Please no misunderstanding, I have nothing against your country*, and especially nothing against you. I just adressed your questions. *It clearly showed how stupid we are here in my country. I absolutely agree. I did not want to suggest it is the ideal solution. But it was a better solution than petroleum along 50 years to search on more efficient "clean" energies. Now, all that time got wasted in my country.

Details needed. Which Luminor model? Which movement? Which dealer?

In my country, many years ago, we had a public consultation on nuclear energy. Being the assbrains that we actually are, and letting us be driven by money cartels and assbrains like the so-called local "Greens" (just a bunch of ignorants who are using fear and ignorance to drive people), the majority voted against nuclear. So resigning our lives and wallets in the hands of gas companies and their Arabian friends -- Should I rather say Arabians and their gas friends? My country is a very small one, but there is no way out at world level as well. "They" (yes, a bit paranoical here) already bought everything and infiltrated everywhere. Now I am glad I have no children. Live is going to be hard. Everything is ok. Stupidity has to be punished.

You are welcome. BTW, it costs 75 USD. You may find it on the 4th (oldest) DSN page.

AFAIK, DSN cystals fit 90% of standard rep cases -- all those accepting [standard] 35.5mm diameter crystals.

Great watch! I too love that PVD. Is that the original crown the EL watch came with? It looks excellent, IMHO. One only remark: is it just the pic, or did you actually perform no mod on the DW+cyclops ensemble?

Thanks! SS radiomir: 6 RG radiomir: 9 RG luminor: 5 One radiomir case already is at the gold plater's -- but I kept another safe, just in case... Wow! Glad to hear that!

"Ever" is long time.

I would give a try with the 33mm crystal. 0.3mm should be small enough to get compensated by the teflon gasket -- plus a bit of glue, in case. 35.5mm diameter. It's true. Even truer (??? "more true"?) on glass than sapphire.

Oh well, I like it anyway. A lot.

:lol: "Pink" sapphire is just the best sapphire you can get. It is not pink coloured. At least this is what I was told.

A bold and nice project that deserves support. Fiddy crystals are 39.95mm diameter. Minifiddy crystals are 37mm diameter. Cousinsuk domed sapphire cystals unfortunately go up to 32mm max. Ofrei has the following domed sapphire crystals to take in consideration: ZSGD-330-1.5, 33mm x 1.5mm, 45 USD ZSGD-335-1.2, 33.5mm x 1.2mm, 45 USD

docdoc, no PAM has a flat glass. Period. Pics or no pics. They are either slightly domed or highly domed. The slightly domed are flat in their inner surface, so they are about 1-1.5mm thicker in their center point than along their border. In the highly domed, the inner crystal surface follows the outer surface in its dome, so they are thinner than the slightly domed. The 111 is slightly domed.

Is that for a 47mm watch, docdoc? I got three for 44mm and they proved quite cheap. Nice, but cheap. One of them even fell in pieces right after mounting it. Also, they are velcro but not Nato.