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This watch is already a while in my collection and I absolutely love it. It's a Rolex 6200 built by Big Dazza Mods: Silix base (more correct case size) 2813 - 21J movement with metal movement holder Domed acrylic plexi Lightly aged cases 8mm Brevet crown Bezel inserts with red triangles have been aged and faded lightly Pearls removed Cases drilled for gen spec spring bars Rivet bracelets have correct spellings and have been modded to accept gen spec spring bars Gen spec spring bars with rounded tips Endlinks modified for gen spec spring bars Smoke aged and textured dials Relumed dials Aged and relumed hands

Hi there, This is my first thread and first time aging somthing, so I would appreciate any tip I can get. the photos where taken with a camera phone, so I apologize in advance.. I was simply too nervous to handle anything else ingredients: * Tiger concept sterile watch from ebay. * raffles time 6200 dial (doesn't fit the case- needs shaving down) * cup of joe (extra strong) * oven preheated to 150C -> then seeing that its not enough for me 200C (on the second try) tools: * basic watch maker kit. * rodico on a toothpick (do deal with the tiny hands) * Q tips- to "paint" the hands after tearing down the case I dealt with the individual parts: rehout- pretty straight forward, preheating with a hair drier really makes things easy. work the insert with sandpaper then pop in bleach for 2 min. wash with fresh water dry and presto. case- just went mid-evil on the sucker. dial- now here is where it became interesting. I really had no Idea what to expect.. so I experimented on 3 dials at the same time. *note that the explorer 111490 is my experimental lumming dial- so different thickness of lume were effected slightly different. (I seem to have misplaced the image of the TC dial before) 20 min of heating on 150C (+ turbo function on oven) got the tiger case to this: granted its not much.. so I decided to try coffee and the heating on 200C (+ turbo function on oven). I just popped the dials for a quick swim in steaming coffee then placed them on some tin foil (for ease removal) *** this is when thing became intense.. so keep an eye on the dial while its in the oven*** after 2 min in the oven I got this: and compare to the non coffee: hands- now these were not effected at all by time in the oven alone. so I just placed them on the tin foil and gently painted them with coffe with a Q tip. then popped in the oven on 200C (+ turbo function on oven) for about 5 min- I am pretty shure the can handle longer. in the case: So what have I learned? * very gentle dial aging- preheat oven to 150C for about 20min * hard core overkill dial aging- coffee dip + turbo 200C for about 2 min (i'll probably settle for 1 min next time or 150C for longer) * I am undecided about the hands. * the hardest part is to get yourself going.. once you start you see there is nothing to fear really.

My obsession with the lugs on this watch made me reshape them this morning. I think it was Dow who told me not to ever look at them because it would drive me crazy..... well it did! Also a little while back I had damaged the plexi so today I finally got a new one and again had to drop it down to make it more of a gen height. Your comments and thoughts would be appreciated. The work on the lugs as well as dropping of the Clark T19 plexi was done with a dremel tool and then sanded to smoothen things up. Gen for comparison: Lugs: Plexi: I think I could probably take off a little bit more but you know how it is with case shaping. "Perfect is the enemy of good" Mine: Before: Notice the lack of the slant on the edge there. After: Lugs: Crystal replaced:

I ordered a silix watch yesterday but they have come back and told me all big crown Rol models are now out of stock !! can anyone recommend where I can get one for a similar price. The two models I looked at had all the main starting points, big crown, coin edge bezel, numbered dial and the right bezel insert. I don't want to have to buy all these features afterwards as my budget won't stretch that far.