MBK Sea Dweller 1665 DRSD

[JamesJackson]

Hi Im considering buying an MBK Sea Dweller 1665 from eurotimez88.com and replacing the dial with gen comex or double red dial, and maybe some other gen parts...however if anyone could give any offer any advice as to weather the gen dials will fit the eta movement...etc and also where one could find a person to actually perform the modifications. Any help would be great!

[JoJo35]

Hi Im considering buying an MBK Sea Dweller 1665 from eurotimez88.com and replacing the dial with gen comex or double red dial, and maybe some other gen parts...however if anyone could give any offer any advice as to weather the gen dials will fit the eta movement...etc and also where one could find a person to actually perform the modifications. Any help would be great!

Hey James,

Welcome aboard!

From someone who has been down the road you're considering, here's my humble advice:

Reps are great fun, and building them is a creative road to learning much more about the watches you own than most folks out there who will just go and buy a watch off the shelf.

If you're considering Comex or DRSD, Big Crown was selling a terrific looking modded gen dial with Comex. Other than that, you'll never find a better one unless it's attached to a 100k watch.

Decent rep DRSD dials are out there, but they are few and far between. I've got one on a singer blank that I was going to install into a super franken, but have since changed my mind because I am concentrating on gens. I plan on selling it soon, along with a lot of my other parts (both gen and rep) from projects that were waiting to be built. 100% gen DRSD dials are practically non-existent, but if found are way out of reach financially, and (IMO) certainly wouldn't make sense installing into a fake watch.

Good luck with your projects

JJ

[ubiquitous]

A gen DRSD or COMEX dial (while not impossible to find) will not make financial sense for a franken MBW. For the money paid on the dial alone, you would be better off just buying a gen vintage Rolex 1665 with some cash to spare.

[freddy333]

As has already been said, replacing the dial is not financially realistic. Keep in mind, also, that if you do find a gen dial, you will either have to replace the ETA movement with a gen (& mod the case to fit) or modify the dial to fit the ETA.

[JamesJackson]

Thanks for the info...what does everyone think about these dials?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Free-Shipment-Diver-Se...%3A1%7C294%3A50

http://cgi.ebay.com/DRSD-Sea-Dweller-Doubl...%3A1%7C294%3A50

[ubiquitous]

Typical HK dials... Badly serifed fonts are an instant tell on these, as well as the shape of the coronets, lume, etc.

[Zackb911]

I believe I have read that the newer MBW's do not accept the Gen parts as well as the older ones did. If you're going Franken you may want to look into that before ordering from Eurotimez which I believe are the "newer" ones.

The older ones pop up on here occasionally and typically go for a pretty penny. Keep your eye out in the for sale section, I may be listing my older MBW 1665 with Gen Superdome, Gen crown & tube, drilled lugs, and aged insert.