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Good looking projects, E! I had a Trevor DRSD from a couple of years ago and it also had a working correct HeV.

Non bad, woof! Now you just need to finish your pearl...

Oops!.

A Rose by any other name...

Tudor was well represented today!!

Let Tudor begin this parade!

Let's get Tudor on the board...

Are you serious!!?? Crap...

The two small "fat" ones go INSIDE the tube and I think you have the others figured out.

Yeah, movement will have to come back out and go back into "the vat" for an extra thorough soak...

Hmmm, I think the fact that you have asked the inmates of this asylum whether you are crazy narrows this down to only one conclusion! Looks like you are really going to have fun!!!

This is an absolute goldmine!!! Thanks, Bro!

We need to work on the end-link fit - that's what I get for being in a hurry... The 2846 bugs me as it was obviously extremely dirty, missing screws, ratchet wheel scrwed on caddy-wampus, etc! I cleaned and oiled it and it will now stay running but when regulated in one position it changes 70 or 80 seconds when you flip it over! Something must be worn in there somewhere. M, I was hoping you liked this dial as yours is in the mail!

I'm with woof* today...

I think I will have to work up some specific 7928 artwork as I think the case back has a rose instead of Rolex coronet. I'll have to check my pics...

Oh, great, you really want me to have a nervous breakdown...

You bet, M. Rev 1 of the case back engraving came from the back on the Jumbo case I got from you and I think it scaled a little "fat"! If nothing else, this is correctly proportioned for the Sub.

I dunno, some of my gen pics have a minute hand that pretty much spans the distance between minute-marks on the dial... But, I can see that it really bugs you and must be causing you unknowable stress and mental anguish. Please, before you feed it to grizz, just send it down Texas way and I promise I will not pick on it concerning it's chubby hand...

I doubt they need to worry as there is no three dimensional aspect to the lettering and the "lens" don't play favorites! But, if somebody was a true artist I suppose they could trace over the decal lettering with paint

It pretty much looks black unless the lighting is really good.

Thanks for the kind words. Although these have came a long way since I started this project they still don't, and never will, stand up to scrutiny under the macro lens. I really do not have plans, or time, to become a dial factory. I have been working on these decals so folks can get some decals from me and make their own dial. All that is needed is an old dial, some fine sandpaper, a can of whatever paint you want the dial color to be, and the decal. Once I get all of the bugs worked out of a few styles I'll post a thread showing which ones are passable. I Have the basic Snowflake pretty much finalized, the 7928, and will print a test batch of 7924 decals tomorrow. I also have a Space Dweller almost finished with a "Red" Space Dweller as a variation. I have a few dials I could recycle, and might be talked into making one, but you are on your own as far as luming goes as I ain't no lumer! As far as case backs go they have to be flat. The tracing was taken from mcotter's 1964 Tudor 7908 and his case back is perfectly flat. I have determined that the Cartel 5512 variety of cases has more than enough "meat" to mill flat and engrave. The back on this example is from a cheap vintage rep and barely had enough thickness to get flat. The gen case back is a bit over .050" thick while the Cartel back is around .100" thick so there is plenty to play with. You can look at your back and gauge how much curvature there is and if you have access to a micrometer you can see if you have enough thickness to mill it flat.

Just because... The other day I made a Blue Snowflake dial so today I "installed" it and tried out my new case-back artwork. I realize by the pics it looks black but you must believe me when I tell you it is very dark blue! The engraving turned out just about right and is made from a gen sample provided by mcotter.

Just incorrect and wrong on so many levels but still a cool lookin' and wearin' watch...

Back to black for a while...