redwatch

God that's gorgeous!!! This has been a really, really good year for you and watches LHOOQ!!! With these builds, is the 7750 still auto - or are you removing the rotor and making them hand wind only?

I like your thinking, but you are correct. Too many other issues with the F A Jones case to make it usable unfortunately

I'd like to acquire the correct box set for a Rolex GMT Master II 16710. Can anyone show me pics of the right one?

Movement Rotor decoration looks correct to me. Here's my gen 2784: Other than the hands and dial, the case and movement both look good. A gen dial and hands would finish it off very, very nicely!!! And that 127 has to go. Definitely need a proper 125 crystal on it.

Oh man Freddy!! That is just Looking great! Just love that silver dial! Still wearing the Porto Reg:

Congrats J! Looks great! I really like the look of that watch, but I just can't decide if it's really for me or not. It's a little flashy for my tastes, but I just love that dial!!

Still wearing my IWC

The worst part is, even when they send you tracking info (if they even do), a lot of times with certain postal tracking, they are extremely slow at updating the information. I bought a watch that was shipped on Sept 10th. Got tracking info and it said it was being processed. Got the watch in the mail the other day, and up until the day before, it still said it was being processed.

From Francisco's modification post it looks as though the genuine in his picture has completely smooth bridges. No pattern, just engravings. That might prove to be a little easier. Either way, this is a beautiful watch. I can't stop wearing it. The HIrsch strap is surprisingly comfortable and well made. I was thinking of upgrading the strap to an HK Tan, but I may hold off on that. We'll see how I feel about that after I get my new strap from him for my other watch

All my thoughts and prayers to your friend and her family R. Here's hoping the surgery is successful and that she makes a full recovery.

Found this on the 'bay. Kind of interesting Link

That my friend is the question of the day Not really sure to be honest, but I know there are many savvy modders around these parts

Yes it is. Basically just an A6498 with a transfer gear to move the hour hand to the 12 o'clock position. As for the machining, I'm not to concerned about that as much as I am about the possibility of having to re-engrave the bridges after they are machined down to remove the current decoration. It looks as the the engraving is deeper, so I may be able to mill the bridges down just enough without losing the current engravings. Hard to say at the moment. I will probably pick up an F.A. Jones just for the movement.

That one is more accurate to be honest. If you want the blue hands, then you need to have blue hour markers to go with it. Movement is going to be way off, but it can be modified as mine was. It involves a transplant of bridge parts from the FA Jones rep. See the links in the top post for more info

Good to know. That will definitely be on my list of future upgrades then!

Thanks Francisco! How difficult do you think it would be to change out the hands for the silver ones, but maintain the end cap that you installed?

I joined this forum April 2009 because I was in search of a very specific replica. I so very badly wanted to find an IWC Regulateur. I found so many scam sites selling this particular watch and thankfully that endless searching brought me here. It's been about a year and a half since I joined and I have finally brought a Regulateur home. This is a well known timepiece around this forum as this is the one that Trombone had modified by none other than our resident modder, Francisco. You can find discussions about the movement here and the modifications Francisco did here The Regulateur is a very distinctive looking watch. Upon first glance, one might consider this to be just another Portuguese Chrono. Further inspection reveals that it is, in fact, an entirely unique and unusual watch face. The measured units of time, seconds, minutes and hours, are spatially separated from each other. The hour display has it's own sub-dial at the 12 o'clock position, the seconds display has it's own sub-dial at the 6 o'clock position. Only the large minute hand occupies the center of the dial, radiating outwards towards the outer perimeter of the watch face. The Regulateur comes from a very old tradition of horology. The quintessence of the horological precision instrument, which in the 18th and 19th centuries, had it's place in observatories, laboratories or watch manufacturers. This form of time display, which differs from that of all other watches, served a highly practical purpose in the early days of precision chronometry. The clocks of that time – mostly intricate grandfather clocks or wall clocks – were built with this dial architecture for observatories. Marine chronometers also occasionally had such an arrangement of the hands. The intention was to prevent the “slow” hour hand from concealing the important seconds hand in particular. For it had a crucial role to play in the observatories, on board ships for navigation, but also in the watch manufactories, where new watches were “timed” or “regulated” with reference to such timepieces. The name says it all. And so, without further ado, I present my grail time piece: The IWC Portuguese Regulateur And finally, a wrist shot: So what's next? Well, since this is my grail piece, it will require some very, very special upgrades. The movement modification is superb, but unfortunately the movement plates have the decorations from a very rare Wempe Limited Edition Regulateur. I would like to re-decorate the back plates to look more like the gen: Additionally, the crown is completely wrong for this model. The gen has IWC stamped on the crown and it is about twice as thick. So, a new crown will need to be sourced eventually. I would also like to see if there is anyway to modify the display back to include the screws. And the last mod - change the hands to make this the Platinum model. I do like the blue hands, but the platinum model with the silver hands is much classier in my opinion UPDATE: Now serviced and blue hands stripped to be silver like the gen above:

Nice!!! My fiancee had a custom cake made for me for my 35th birthday. Since I work in the audio industry and work with analog equipment a lot, she had a custom console cake made for me She's so great!

Wow that looks clean!!! Nice pick up! Ziggy might be a good choice for a service too. What were you thinking of for a project? 1655 I would assume? A service dial would be a really nice compliment for this movement (assuming one can be found at a reasonable price) Looking forward to seeing your progression with this project

TX that is a beauty!!!

Did this model traditionally come with a superdome crystal?

Still wearing my new IWC Regulateur

"i can't feel my face" ..... ouch

Here's a quicky picture with the movement cased up and ready for it's new shoes!!