monkeypunch

Very nice. Specs?

More pics, please!

I'll PM you when I have them.

Sweet!

Interested, very interested.

When I built my franken I simply swapped the parts from a 2836 gmt movement to a 2846. I followed the Sneed tutorial and everything worked like a charm.

I got my 7836 from Josh. As far as I can remember it was like $55 with free shipping.

I usually use a broken oil pick and depress the spring that holds the date wheel in place, press that spring in and try to rotate the date wheel with a set of tweezers, it should give and come off, reverse the process to reinstall.

Ugh, diamonds  I assume its a 21j cheapie. I'd invest in something better, but that's just me...

The fonts are a little wacky. But if the price is right, its a good dial for a budget build.

Let's see some more pics!

As I recall, a little has to be removed from the overall diameter of the ring and two slots cut to fit the clamps. Maybe 5-10 minutes work.

Nope. It'll need a 2836 date wheel.

Dial dots and a modded raffles movement ring will work. The 2783 I had in my 1016 16014 cased franken started losing time so I switched it out with one of those Seagull 2824 movements. Haven't had an issue yet. I simply put the dial dots on the movement, slapped on the dial without the calender spacer ring thing, mounted the hands, cased and was in business.

I recall having to go around with a dremel on the retaining ring to get my bezel to turn. All three bezel sets I got from Clarks needed work to properly turn. I also had to shave the inserts to get them to fit correctly.

One of these with the date went for over $300 on ebay yesterday...This summer I bid on one only to lose it at the last second. It was in better shape and went for something like $98

How is the 2842 held in the case? I thought there were no holes for the case clamps in these movements. Looks good by the way

I used Clark's hour and minute hands and a Yuki seconds hand for mine...

You'd need a new set of hands and the dial feet would probably have to be removed, but it could be done if you don't mind the hassle.

Looks pretty good! Do you have a shot of the dial straight on?

Hmmm. I was looking at the sellers 1680 and 1655 cases too. I wonder if they take gen spec dials...

Something like this?

http://www.helenarou.com/6538-gold-bond39s--benz-watch-hand-super-luminova-for65383928242836.html

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/baselworld-2014-introducing-the-new-tudor-heritage-ranger

Measures in at 41mm. I would have preferred 36-39mm, but it has lug holes!