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That's a spectacular result. Verrrrrrrrrry tasty Got more?

@BigWaveD I'm ready for my next lesson Sensei. I have a very handsome WL with a rivet dial and I took it apart (yes I've breached that Rubicon!) to reveal a boring 6497 movement. This cannot stand! So I bought a gorgeous highly decorated 1949 Moly 3602 for it. Runs like a champ and it came housed in a pocket watch case with stem and crown. So I'm thinking I need a Moly ring for the WL case? Or will the 6497 ring fit? Next, I have a stem... ish. It's in the pocket watch. Now I need what to make that movement live in the WL case? Tall hours wheel and tall tube hands? This is great!!

That looks spectacular on your wrist. Great choice! Like you I was a 37-40mm Rolex fan until one of those washed up on my shores, and I haven't looked back.

Something about.........

Clem Kadiddlehopper

+1 And be sure to use Loctite Blue when you put thy screw in.

I'll get that fricken movement in that case and the bezel on!

I took your question to my team of experts and didn't get a lot of help. How small do they make Dremel cutoff wheels?

Okay that makes sense. I had a chance at an Athaya display back. Guess I'll go with the OPB engraved piece from River. Any idea if my movement ring for the 6497 it came with will accept a Moly 3602 movement? Uh oh, it just occurred to me the stem heights may be different too. Oops! Rats!

All hail and ebullience to thee and thine progeny, O Producer of Mighty Torque and yea, Black Stinkiness.

Notice each link is a different width, they taper to the clasp, hence the long screws. Get thyself a fine hacksaw, file and Dremel cutoff wheel. Cut thy length most appropriate and slightly long then file thy tiny bit with alacrity. Upon reaching thine desired length, cut thee a new screw head slot in thine now-most-groovy shorter screw pin.

Here's the Nastymariner (gen) with a WSO bezel assembly, Yuki insert and Clark crystal.

Ahoy Paneristi, a question please: Will an Athaya display 6154 caseback fit a River WL case? *rubbing hands together*

Every year at this time is Fur Rondy and the Iditarod sled dog race. Lots of neat things are written about it; google up Don Bowers Iditarod Trail Notes to get a taste of what it entails. Yesterday we watched the Iditarod finish and something really neat happened. Mitch Seavey came in first, the old timer setting all kinds of records in the process. After him was a serious race between his son Dallas Seavey and the competitor Nicolas Petit from Girdwood. They pulled out of Safety, heading for Nome 16 minutes apart. The cameras were watching all the way down Front Street in Nome, and they picked out a dog team coming up off the sea ice. We couldn't see who it was until they were 500 yards out, and we saw it was Dallas. Yahoo!! He came in 2nd place, behind his dad. Then right away came bib #24, Nicolas Petit. He had made up almost 13 minutes in the 22 mile race from Safety to Nome. What a run!! So he passed under the burled arch and accepted the crowd's cheers for 3rd place. What the cameras didn't catch though, is what mattered. He quietly handed something to Dallas ... his Vet Book. In the commotion, Dallas had dropped it on the snow in Safety as he pulled out, and Nicolas grabbed it for him. The rules require the Vet Book to be in the front of the sled at every checkpoint, and without it Dallas would have been forced to scratch. Or go back and get it. By quietly handing to book to Dallas, Nicolas gave up 2nd place in the greatest race on earth. That's sportsmanship.

Good eye, that's Sitka spruce. Let's see you identify this one.

Hell

Brother next time you get the urge to offload it, just send it to me for a year. I promise I'll be good to it. Then when you feel the need I can send most of the pieces it back again.

Here's the one I bought but the biggest die wouldn't fit. So I bought a PVC cap from a hardware store, and cut it off to like 1/2" height so it fit over my crystals and pressed down on the retaining ring. It was maybe 2" and cost a buck. I just went in and tried pipe caps until I found one that slipped snug over my watch crystal. Or drill a puck and use that

Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! (Do you have a press to put the new replacement WSO assembly back on? Those of us with hands like a vise just use our big manly thumbs.)

Here's the height difference. Even Chardonnay influenced eyes (oak-y or not) should see it. [emoji12]

Not mine!! That's nikki6 underwear.... if you can call it that!

Time for your Big Girl Panties my man. It's ridiculously easy to do this... tap a thin blade in under the ring, work your way around and it will leap off the case. Easy squeasy. If the crystal stays on the case, good. Otherwise pull it off the ring assembly that just came off, and twist/push it back onto the case. Then push the new ring down over it to hold it on. It will take a press of some kind to really push that ring down correctly. You can drill a hole in a hockey puck that just fits over the crystal, or a piece of wood, or buy the cheapie $10 press off eBay. It looks like a garlic press. See how easy it is? PS: if you want to use the 1665 bezel with a 1680 ring it probably won't work. There's a big height difference, at the level where the bezel clicks down over the ring.