RWG Technical

Don't know how I missed this one until now. Great information, thanks so much. RG

Here are better pics of what I was trying to capture...and explain. RG

Good eye. The ring that holds the crystal was missing...so I had no option but to leave it as is. Thankfully there is a cover that closes down over it all and protects the dial. RG

My eye looks only as if I have a bit of a hangover, still reddish all over, and only one area of blood left. Thanks for asking. Weather has been shitty all summer, so the riding has not been consistant and not as much as we would like to do, we had 3 weeks of no riding at all. @ lordrasta Saw a M109 the other day, both J and I loved it, it looks amazing...maybe a trade up next year?? Sorry we are drifting a bit off topic... RG

Thanks for the kind words, it did turn out nice and I really like the gloss finish when it dries. Make the workmanship really show up. RG

Harley riders don't wave to us anyway, so I don't imagine they know how to park thier bikes either... We both ride Suzuki Boulevards, J has a C50 and I have a M50, with loud Cobra pipes...very loud... RG

J and I will be leaving for France early next month for a 3 week visit. This trip is purely vacation and we have our days planned out. We will be making regular trips to France, including a planned one next spring. On our next trip we are thinking of planning a GTG somewhere, and I am seriously thinking of packing up and bringing along my lume kit, and offering lume service to our under serviced EU friends. I will have a place to stay and with proper planning I think this is a good offering. I realize spring is a number of months away, but since the time seems to go by so fast, I would like to hear the thoughts of the EU members, and also the amount of interest in a GTG and anyone who may want lume done as well. RG

It's in the mail and on it's way home, so I can't offer any more pictures. I didn't service it, so I didn't have anything else to take a picture of. Other than the serial numbers that are engraved, and the missing "7750" stamp, it looks identical to the ETA. I am comparing this to my Tudor 7750 which has a number of high end movement upgrades done to it, including high quality shock absorbers, etc... From what I can tell, the only addition to this one, is the PR module, the rest looks identical to standard ETA quality and parts. RG

Ah yes...so loud my riding partner can't tell if her bike is even running...love it (for now, I have seen her browsing the Vance and Hines site... ) RG

It's not a Rollie, but sure looks like one. The glow is orange with a green tint to it. This is pure Super Lume in this colour, so the glow is about the same as C1. Nothing glows as good as C3, it's the benchmark for all lume being the brightest and best of all. I like it just because it's not what you normally see, but I can understand that it's not to everyone's taste. RG

@ Stephane and Mikerblade. I will be landing in Paris in less than a month...for 3 weeks. This year I am going to do the tourist thing, but I have been thinking of next year's trip and maybe bringing my lume kit with me...and spending some time doing lume while in the EU. Something to think about... RG

@ ssurfer I used those exact pictures for my reference when I lumed them. Problem is the pictures don't show how the lume is sitting in the cutouts. I did as in your picture the left hand top one, but even so it took up a lot of lume. I will adjust the exposure and take some pics which shows the lume and how it's sitting inside the bathtub and up on the sides. I have done three of these and think I have a good process to do them now. After I put the lume down and it dried, I placed varnish over the top and then clear coated the dial over everything. kyelin's pictures are what mine looks like, just the exposure of the camera makes the lume look flat, it isn't, it caved in like it should be. I'll get something up later, at the GF's now RG

Me too... Why not use the chrono? I have many A7750's, even a 4 year old 188 with a so called crappy 21.6K (which it isn't) and all my A7750's are used all the time, and I have never had one problem with any watch, not one... RG

To make the datewheel closer to the dial requires that you remove the gears and the spacer ring. Once you do this and install the dial, you will have fixed the sunken datewheel...the dial is closer to the datewheel becasue the movement is now thinner... But, since you made the movement thinner and removed a spacer ring, once you insert the movement into the case, it will sit deeper in the case, which means that the stem will be out of alignment by the same thickness of the spacer ring you took out... the stem to movement alignment is critical and must be perfect to avoid problems. You can't install a 7753 either because all the ETA 775X series are the same thickness, so you will have the same problem with stem alignment, as well as the date window in the dial will be in the wrong place, etc... I recommend you live with what you have, or buy a 7753 powered model. RG

Thanks guys... I don't think they are gen dials, I have to take a few more shots to try and show the way the lume sits once dry kind of like a bathtub with the sides coated. The glow isn't so great, since this is C1 with my colouring to make it look like tritium, the camera WB has made the lume too bright, it's actually somewhat darker and more ochre... I would love to do a couple of these in C3 with reflective white paint in the cutouts... RG

Figured it wouldn't take long for you to spot this one...sorry it took so long...had to go riding with the lady... RG

Yes...and the Cortebert's are both mine. One needed a simple clean and oil, the 616 was cleaned, and I had to install a new Balance wheel Staff, as the old one was broken. All assembled, with new mainsprings, etc, both run and keep great time.. RG

First time I have had these in house for lume. Done in the same way as the genuine ones, with my custom lume mix. Filled each cutout with the lume and brought it up on the inner edges as was done on the genuine ones. Once dry I applied clear varnish over each numeral and then clear coated the entire dial. I thought that sandwich dials consumed a lot of lume, each of these dials takes 2X as much lume as any sandwich dial I have done... Thanks for looking. RG

So, what do you make of this one... What mods were/are done to it, if any?? RG

Two different vintage custom tritium mixes... Thanks for looking. RG

What do you think? Cool... Thanks for looking. RG

Got to love the vintage pocket watches, the quality and attention to details is amazing. Not too many solid gold 18K cases around... Thanks for looking RG

My pleasure. Calendar is full until 2009. Vacation, travel for work, etc...only so many hours in a day RG

I could be a number of things. Sometimes the pallet stones are loose and this causes problems, on most A7750's the entry pallet doesn't go far enough into the escape wheel and it can skip a beat, since most of these aren't oiled, sometimes there is too much spring pressure reaching the balance and it can overbank and turn too far... There could be many reasons, I have had some that sound like a train, "tick a tick, tick a tick..." very weird and you can even hear it in a quite room from far away. Unless you have a timer to see the what the pallets are doing, there is no way to identify the problem, or fix it. RG

Sounds like something right up my alley... I'll have to see if it's on the newstands locally. Thanks for the tip. RG