Vintage Tudor is Finished

[jmb]

After a suggestion from alligoat I ordered a pair of lumed Dauphine style hands from ofrei and decided on a black sweep hand after looking at tons of pics. I "gently aged" the case and also brushed out the old dead lume and slathered on some Glow, Inc., V10 lume. I can now see it in the dark but I'm a bit disappointed in the V10 stuff but the hands are like a beacon...

Here is a "ingredient list" and some final pics.

1 - Vintage Tudor no-date Oyster dial (flea-bay)

1 - 34mm a21j Tudor Prince Oysterdate for case and crown (unapproved vendor)

1 - Clark 25-12 crystal (flea-bay)

1 - ETA 2783 movement (flea-bay)

1 - Dauphine style lumed hour hand (ofrei)

1 - Dauphine style lumed minute hand (ofrei)

1 - Black sweep hand (ofrei)

1 - Smooth bezel (homebrew)

1 - ETA 2783 stem (Jules Borel)

1 - Movement ring/spacer (homebrew)

1 - Dial/rehaut spacer (homebrew)

What better place for a Tudor to rest...

Back to a more mundane background...

[coolfire]

Looks fantastic, I must say!

[lhooq]

"A Rolex by any other name... would be a Tudor."

It looks terrific head-on, but the lugs are a bit trapezoidal in profile. Is there any way you could soften the curves?

[jmb]

LH, I was just thinking about that, it didn't really strike me until I posted the profile views! I'll probably grind them down to more follow the general profile of the end-links

[ubiquitous]

Looks great, buddy! Those hands are a very nice compliment to the dial!

[TeeJay]

It looks great, amigo The dauphine hands really are the icing on the cake

[lhooq]

LH, I was just thinking about that, it didn't really strike me until I posted the profile views! I'll probably grind them down to more follow the general profile of the end-links

Ah, I was hoping you'd say that... The slab sides on certain Oyster reps have always bugged me, and I knew you'd be up to the task of sorting them out!

[Guest al12]

The work of the master

[jmb]

Master Hack, maybe, but thank you. I'm still learning this whole watch thing in real life I make what amounts to very large pipe bombs...

[alligoat]

Excellent JB! That's quite the vintage Tudor now. Congrats.