nick1972

What kind of dial did you bought? Reference maybe? If you bought a 7928 dial then a 2784 movement won't fit.

You can cut the feets and use something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400-Dial-feet-stickers-watch-movement-repairs-spares-/200641206787?pt=UK_Jewellery_Watches_WatchAccessories_SpareParts_SM&hash=item2eb725da03

Damn - they didn't have 1000 grit

I have cape cod cloth - do you think that will work?

And who is nostalgia?

And how are yuki's 703 crowns and tubes?

600 grid sandpaper is to abrasive. So no, do not use it after a 600. Get a softer grid in any autoshop.

Gary (Nostalgia) sells aftermarket parts on ebay: http://myworld.benl.ebay.be/nostalgia-2000

Tubes from yuki are also good. No crowns in stock but you can find one on ebay for the same price.

Thumbs up!

Well, not to me :-(. It always takes 4 to 6 weeks when shipped via the UK.

I have a few of Joshua's cases, just case and caseback.

Very nice .

A Tudor sub caseback won't fit Rolex sub cases, gen or replica.

The 5512 sub from Joshua accepts a gen Rolex caseback.

One quick question, does anyone know if the FEF 350 is similar to the 390 caliber? If so, this may be another and cheaper alternative.

E

No it's not the same or similar, 390 is 12.5 ligne and a 350 is 10.5

WOW. I managed to source some service t-19 but the lack of dome sort of works for me on these older watches. I would love to get one of these cases for an early sub project. It is soooo funny how our taste changes and evolves in watches as you learn a little bit.

390 base plates go for really cheap. How how hard to source, or correctly mate are these parts?

Thanks for the input and sharing your project pictures.

E

I would search the bay for a movement. The copper colored FEF 390's are not to expensive if you know what to look for.

The way I did it, learn about the different Tudor references with a FEF 390 caliber.

Search for the tudor ads where the movement is not visible and ask the seller what reference the watch got.

There is a Big chance you get a 390 for cheap.

The rhodium plated 390's is a different story, they are harder to get and to my knowledge not to be found in regular Tudor's.

My 7924 has a rhodium plated FEF 390 caliber.

Maybe I have a spare copper colored FEF 390, I will check it tomorrow.

The hands are old ones from CWP. I'm gonna

use a superdome 39 for this project

On that note, I wonder how the 1030 hands would fit on the 390 movement. I can always just assemble this watch with the 2783/4 movement and use it as is for now and slowly collect the parts for the 390. Not for anybody else but for me.

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The second and hour hand wil fit ,the minute not. But if your handy you could enlarge the existing hole.

I tried it with my 7924 franken because I liked the big bubble seconds hand.

A nice prototype

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-ROLEX-TUDOR-SUBMARINER-chronometer-1000ft-300m-/110724073327?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item19c7ab476f

I have done the lollipop mod and it's fairly easy but you have to relume the hand.

Remove the lume and use a nail clipper, then I glued a piece of sandingpaper to a toothpick and grinded the innerside of the circle.

Gen 1680-8 gold-blue insert bleached for 10 minutes and the gold faded away.

Very nice blue color

Second one is a bleached blue CWP insert

The crownguards are more then ok, I've seen genuines with shorter ones.

You have to reshape them and make them thinner, I did mine but they still need some more sanding.

Josh 99 dollar 5512 transformed in a Tudor snowflake with gen dial

the eta stem youre looking for is part # 401

You have to find a 401 stem for a eta 2784, not all the 401 will fit your watch.

There was a conversation on VRF a long time ago. These dials are fake.

It is the same dude.

Ok, Got the answer myself on this one. Per Yuki's email their caseback is built to gen spec. So it will work on a gen 1680 case.

And the caseback from the $99 sub from Josh fits on my Yuki 1680 case like a glove.

Perfect base for Tudor submariners, the gen and replica Tudor dial fit's the case perfect

Very nice! So you could engrave blanco casebacks

I'll try tomorrow if a gen caseback works with the case from Josh.

In the meantime I can tell you that a gen and rep tudor dial fit's perfect.

or cheap - like Joshs 5513 + extra dial an hope that the dials diameter is not too small for the case

I have a Josh 5513 fully dismantled and a snowflake dial, I will see tomorrow if the dial fits the case.

I don't know if it increases the value of the watch. Collectors wouldn't buy it because the caseback and case has a different serialnumber on it.

True, I ordered 2 and paid with paypal. Thanks Star69 for the tip

Case engraving is genuine, or are these different pictures?