jmb Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 I have been looking for a reasonably priced gen Tudor Date-Day dial for quite some time and finally came to the conclusion that Date-Day and reasonable were mutually exclusive terms! I had an ETA 2834 I needed to use so I hit my parts guy up for a nice rep black w/silver stick marker dial. I had previously bought some cases which were supposed to be 34mm but the dials fell through the rehaut and the case measures a hair under 36mm and came without movement rings. I decided to keep them and had almost forgotten about them until I got the dial. I popped the dial onto the movement and it dropped right into the case with no spacer needed so I can only assume these cases were meant for a Date-Day. I went through al of my loose crystals and had one that fit but I don't know what number. This was basically built up from left-overs and odds-and-ends and I fairly pleased at how it turned out. All that remains is to maybe "shorten" the crystal a bit and source a more correct "day" wheel but outside of you guys I doubt anybody around here will know! Sorry about the lint on the crystal, it has built up a pretty good static charge and all my wiping accomplished was to creat more static and move the dust/lint around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickdick Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Looks great and so does the tall crystal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted November 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 I like black and silver dials. Unfortunately this one is somewhat incorrect so my search for a gen dial continues. The line under "Tudor" should read "Oyster Prince" instead of "Prince Oyster". I still don't understand why these rep factories can't get stuff like this correct! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligoat Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Looks good JB! How come there's a 2 after Tuesday? This is actually the 4th Tuesday of November and there will be 5 Tuesdays this month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneed12 Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 The standard ETA day/date wheels for the 2834 come like that. Tuesday is the second day of the week, hence the 2. EDITED TO ADD: The convention that Monday is the first day of the week is used in most of the rest of the world, btw. A lot of Seikos come with day wheels that display the roman numerals I through VII instead of the MON through SUN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted November 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Thanks, sneed, I was thinking that the number was a "Sandoz" thing and that maybe just a day name was conventional ETA. Guess a correct day wheel will be a bit harder to come up with than I thought! :-p When this gets around to Sat and Sun the number goes away and they are in red... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiman12 Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Sweet J...good work once again...I've always loved the black Day-Date dial...I'm still looking for a gen oversized Day-Date, but those puppies are getting expensive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 It looks awesome, I really like it, even more so as it was a total build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneed12 Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 I think ETA makes a version with just the day text as well... this photo from Ofrei seems to imply so anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted November 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 I think maybe I'll e-mail Borel and see what they can get... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 Shame about the Prince Oyster, but this looks really good, J, especially for a parts-bin special! There are several members on RWG whose spare parts drawers I'd love to see. Justin's is definitely on that list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted November 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 Thanks, M, the junk box is just that, mostly a bunch of junk and a few "special" items waiting for better goodies to go along with 'em! I'll probably still wear this as as I said, nobody around here is gonna know one way or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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