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Love the dial Since you used Yuki's hands, ETA movement?

My healthy patient

All of my watches keep pretty good time except one, my Tudor 94010 build. This watch runs slow...like 5-7 minutes a day slow. In the past I have pulled movements out, done some mods on case and dial...and had a 50/50 chance of not killing the keyless on reassembly. I have never bothered with even trying to regulate a watch, worried I would kill the movement doing it. The other day I packed up some watches to ship to Jmb, one is a fresh build..my 5512 I've been collecting parts all year for, and the other two are for repair and upgrades. They happen to be my favorite daily wearers... that left me with this Tudor, a watch I really love and get many compliments...but is frustrating have to reset every four or five hours. Most of the watches I own have swiss eta's, but this Tudor has the DG2813 el cheapo. I figured I would try and adjust the timing and if I broke it...Ofrei's replacement DG2813 was just 21.50$ and a mouse click away. So I opened her up... stared at all those tiny gears, jewels, and springs... and noticed there were no +/- markings for adjustments. I realized I better do some research. Going through RWG and the other two forums doing searches, I found there was a great amount of material to read....where others had gone before. I learned there were two adjustment tabs, I also learned to not touch one of them, thank God I read that! lol I tend to be a "just plow right in" kinda guy, and in the past that's how I have broken, bent and killed watch parts. Anyway after studying pictures and having the Tudor opened under magnification, it was easy to see what to do. By trial and error I spent the rest of the day making incremental movements of the tab and finally felt I was good to go. The watch is keeping time and was dead on this morning instead of being 5-6 minutes slow and having to reset.....Yea! I realize how simple this procedure this, and realize there is lot's more to doing this right with setting beat error etc.. and using diagnostic tools and graph's.....but just the fact it worked for what my needs are..and I did it on my own and learned a little more...is a good feeling! I wrote this today to inspire anyone else that fears the mighty movement to research and give it a try. Also to give thanks to everyone on the forum that write tutorials and share their knowledge. RWG is such a great resource for us! Thanks RWG!

Congrats M, you deserve this if anyone does. Beautiful!

That's so cool when a watch comes together this well. Congrats!

Thanks Pete!

Very clean and nice looking movement. Congrats!

There's a watch shop in Detroit called something like "Motor City Watchworks" or similar that sells Yao's line of parts. They also sandblast and refinish cases. You can find out about them on homage forums.

Thanks Freddy I was hoping this existed, a good breakdown a pictures...perfect!

Thanks for the info M I didn't know so many here had used Phongs case. ....well ubi yeah..

Phongs cases are often the best, but for this model I don't know anyone that has one. Have you contacted him for a price? It's going to be somewhere between 1100-1500$ That's why the DW is such a deal....even if there are issues. Maybe someone that had a phong or Ndt case can comment.

TC say 500$, 300$ dial, 50$ crown, 400$ bezel, 150$ insert etc. I'll bet you could make a killer two tone sub for 1500-2000$. That's lots cheaper than the gen....and let's face it...chicks dig it

I don't think so, other than those two, the rest don't take gen parts and have either thin plating, or just electro/anodized and won't wear long. The MBW is a little cheaper and easier to get, in fact there were two MBW two tones on RG last week. You could also build a two tone from the TC watch, get a gold WSO bezel, gen insert, crown, a gen dial and a two tone bracelet.

Very cool pic You don't have snow there today?

Might also try soaking it thoroughly with oil or bike chain lube...whatever is popular these days. I had a folded that was crazy tight and very uncomfortable. I used spray oil for my cars air filter. I let it soak all day on newspaper, then I washed and scrubbed it about 100 times with dish liquid. It changed the feel totally and was great to wear after that.

I've always loved the color of hands, markers and dial on that watch Freddy. Simple and elegant. Do you have a link to the build? I've done a little searching and haven't found it yet.

That fella makes really well thought out designs and quality pieces. Yours is beautiful.

Most agree the 1665 came with 93150 and 585 endlinks. I have the cartel 93150 and am using 580's from WSO on ebay. I have never seen 585 gen or reps for sale.

Nanuq, have tried the app "Zoom" for Iphone 4? Someone like you that's already good with pictures might be able to really go nuts. I'm just learning, but sometimes I get lucky I've been playing with Zoom for awhile and seem to get better macro's than I did without it.

7206 is rivet. I have no idea how to add stretch.

Looks that way, good. At least we know you have the right case. Keep us posted on your project as it progresses.