vintage explorer 1 to age, which base watch

[mellus]

Thanks.

Was having connection issues yesterday. That image wasn't loading.

How long did you leave it in for?

8 minutes at 230 C, then 4 minutes 250 C ...

The hands: directly under the heat of the grill ... 20 minutes 250 C

btw, what is the case and coin trick?

[Pugwash]

btw, what is the case and coin trick?

Put the case in a bag of coins and shake.

[mellus]

Put the case in a bag of coins and shake.

Thx Pugwash ....

[alligoat]

Wow! Like gavidoc, I didn't see those pics last week. And I just realized you EU guys work on the centigrade scale. For us yanks, that would be 446 degrees, Farenheit, if my math is correct. That's a pretty hot oven!

[docblackrock]

Put the case in a bag of coins and shake.

^^^

Like describing how to perform an appendectomy without mentioning the anaesthetic

i.e. DON'T forget to mask off the crystal first for obvious reasons

[docblackrock]

Wow! Like gavidoc, I didn't see those pics last week. And I just realized you EU guys work on the centigrade scale. For us yanks, that would be 446 degrees, Farenheit, if my math is correct. That's a pretty hot oven!

We call it Celsius these days (after the Swedish guy who came up with it). And by "these days" I mean the last 60 years

[alligoat]

Learn something everyday here!

Either way, it's still pretty darn hot. I would have figured 230 degrees F would have been hot enough.

20 years ago the US was supposed to convert to the metric system- by and large it still hasn't happened to this day. But at least w/ watchmaking, I'm learning a little bit more metric, day by day.

[mjmj]

I read this thread yesterday and went ahead with the ageing process on PCs 5510. I must say the methods worked a treat. Thank you for all the great tips.

Here is a dirty pic

[rolexmaniac88]

So here is mine with dial and hands aged, on a historically correct swiss army 1950s backpack. Still not beat up enough, but will do that during my next deployment

This is so nice!!!! Which base watch did you use? What movement do you have in there?

Anyhow, congratulations for this beauty

[jockl1978]

This is so nice!!!! Which base watch did you use? What movement do you have in there?

Anyhow, congratulations for this beauty

Watch model isn't available any more. Mine was 21j. From Narikaa.

[lhooq]

Watch model isn't available any more. Mine was 21j. From Narikaa.

Narikaa still carries that 1016 every now and then. I wish it were more widely available; it has the best dial of any <$200 vintage Explorer.

And your "aged" effect is still among the best I've seen, even after one year!

[irate03]

My oven broke before I had chance to try this, we're still without an oven at the moment so I used my tried and tested watercolour, coffee and matt spray varnish technique that I use on my pam dials.