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My new baby - Tudor 9411 Franken Sub:

Thanks guys! Just added a lume shot to the original post. Ziggy's lume is unbelievable!

Tudor 9411 Pictorial & Review First of all, let me say that without this community and its members incredible generosity & knowledge, this watch would not be possible. I would like to thank Lani & Ubi for the original inspiration by sharing their wonderful pair of Tudors with the forum. Additionally, thanks to Ubi for helping me with the initial build. I know this was a tough one! Secondly, i would like to thank eddog. Your vast knowledge of these watches was invaluable. Your ability to take this watch to the ultimate next level was outstanding and I know this watch would not be in the condition it is in without you. Also a big thumbs up to Justasgood & Gavidoc for your help and input! I present to the community my Tudor 9411 Prince Oysterdate Submariner: A little history: Rolex (which was started by Hans Wilsdorf in 1905 and officially registered in 1908 in La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland) introduced a new line in 1946 called Tudor. Wilsdorf chose the name Tudor because he wanted to honor the Tudor period of England. They used the Tudor Rose signed on the dial which is the heraldic emblem of England. In the late 60's they changed from the Rose to the Shield. The main difference between Rolex & Tudor was that inside the Oyster case, instead of a Rolex made movement, there was a movement manufactured by Ebauches SA, ETA. Although Tudor had a vast selection of watches, it is their dive watches that have become truly collectible. Purchased by the French Navy in the 60's, the Marine Nationale commissioned several watches to be given to their divers. Additionally, the US Navy used Tudor for the UDT and the Navy Seals. The history behind this watch: I first joined RWG in April this year to learn more about watches, replicas and where to find them. During my initial visits, I saw many, many wrist checks displaying these Submariner watches. At least I thought they were Submariners. They looked like subs at first, but they had these strange looking hands and the name Tudor on the dial. So, I did a little research. Needless to say, i was completely drawn in by these unique "Snow Flake" watches. I started a thread stating that I planned to build one. The community poured in advice! What to search for, how to do it, and to be extremely patient, as this was a difficult task. I felt I was up to it and I have quite a bit of patience, so I started my search. First off, the dial. Ubi pm'd me saying he knew of someone selling a 9411 dial. He forwarded my their information and that was how I first met eddog. He still had the dial available, and in addition to that, he also had an original 2784 Tudor movement for sale. Well, that was easy! About a week later, there was a posting for a case, bezel, insert, & crown from Marble. I have no idea where this case was sourced from originally, but it is superb! Excellent engravings on the caseback, inside caseback, and in between the lugs. Engraved with a serial number of 782137 and stamped 9411. Next I needed some hands. I was contacted by Justasgood as he knew of a gen set for sale. Once all the bits arrived, off they went to Ziggy for a vintage tritium style re-lume. The lume job, as always, is superb. Once I got the parts back, i shipped them off to Ubi for assembly. Ubi did an excellent job assembling all the parts, but noticed there was an issue with the movement. It was losing A LOT of time. Around 15 minutes per hour. So, the watch went to Canada for service. I sent it to eddog as his watchsmith had originally serviced the watch and said he would repair it. Unfortunately, the watchsmith decided that this wasn't his work, and would not honor his own warranty. Crap! No worries though, eddog being the superb gentleman that he is, offered to send it to another watchsmith he knew. In the meantime, eddog offered a gen 702 crown and tube assembly as well as a gen 9315T bracelet with 380 endlinks. I figured why not go all the way with this and bought them. After quite some time, the watchsmith got the 2784 back up and running nicely. The watch arrived yesterday! Timing seems excellent so far. I will be keeping an eye on it to see how it does. Here's the list of whats installed: Genuine Tudor 9411 Dial Genuine Tudor "Snow Flake" Hands Genuine Tudor 2784 Movement w/ Silver Date Wheel Genuine Tudor 9315T Folded Link Bracelet Genuine Rolex 380B Endlinks Genuine Rolex 702 Crown & Tube Soon to be installed: Genuine T125 Acrylic Crystal Photos: Wrist Shots: Super Awesome Lume Shot: Once again a huge thanks to RWG! This is the most incredible community and this watch is a true testament to that statement.

Superb which ever it is!!! Looks amazing. The shallow rehaut makes me think Gen case?

Only group shot I have currently is my Seamaster Collection:

Pretty amazing Bell & Ross Tourbillon with regulator style hands. Very very cool looking watch. Too bad it's so expensive!!!! Can be found here

Sent it to avitt for a nice DLC coating!!! Maybe even find a nice ss bracelet and have him DLC that for it as well! That would be sweet!

Best bet is to have them fitted properly by an optician. My optician in LA fitted my most recent pair of glasses (it was the first time I had glasses properly fitted) and they fit perfectly. They bend the arms, shape the hook pieces on the part that goes behind your ear as well as adjust the nose bridges. Makes all the difference in the world. And yes, they can even shape and fit plastic frames. They have a great little device that heats up the plastic so they can bend it to the correct shape. I would give that a go before you sell them off. They are sweet looking shades!

Good trade Stephane! I am with you.....not a huge fan of TT myself. Great pics though and thanks for sharing!

There's a couple of good posts about how to make your bracelet look and feel better. A refinishing tutorial was posted by gioarmani here A how-to lube your bracelet was posted by P4GTR here

Wow those look spectacular! Thanks for sharing! Are you going to be modding and selling these at all?

I live in Los Angeles, born in Canada, but my parents now live in Alexandra. I know of a few kiwi members down there. Welcome to the board!

I think for turkey day i will wear my VC Overseas. Nice and thin profile for under the shirt cuff. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Don't drink too much!!

That's a gorgeous, and well loved vintage searambler with my all time favorite silver dial! Nice find Nanuq! Lani - you going to go for that one?

Not too sure if I will be near a computer over the next couple of days so I thought I would wish the us members a very happy thanksgiving. I hope you all have a wonderful day and get an opportunity to be with your friends & family. I am Canadian, living in the US. We celebrate our Thanksgiving the second weekend of October and I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to spend it with my entire family (all 34 of us). For tomorrow I will have dinner with friends who have been so gracious to include myself and my fiance in their thanksgiving plans. Let us give thanks and have a wonderful, wonderful time!

Wow Lani! Just WOW!!! She's a beauty! Congrats!! Can't wait to see the threesome all together! Any plans to put this one on a "Beads of Rice" bracelet? Not saying I don't just love the rubber strap, but there's just something so unique about their bracelets!

Don't think I've seen too many Navitimer's with day-date functions on the sub-dials vs chrono.

Ronin that is brilliant!!! Got to love google!!!

Wow Frogman! Your gen straps are gorgeous! And of course, the PAM's are super sweet as well! Thanks for sharing!

Still wearing my one and only PAM today!

$8k starting bid and absolutely no information. One crappy picture. Oh but look.....it comes with the leather box and he says he's a collector. I guess we should just trust him then, huh?

+1 on the C1. It's a cool looking watch, but just can't pull it off. @Hike - your new animated avatar & sig are ridiculous!

Great pic as always BT!!

PAM 112h for tuesday:

Superb pair! Well done! I would love to see a pic of the movement of the 111 if possible