first mod. 1680 shot, hand painting tecnique still needed

[Tiyal]

Aloha All,

I got married a couple weeks back. For the groomsmen, I went the extra mile and picked up 3 red 1680s from Josh. (the man! great communication and speed)

All the edges were softened the case and bands were oiled sanded, re-sanded then polished cleaned and oiled. Drilled out the end-links 2mm, be careful bent the C#*P out of them and had to rework them back into shape. Drilled the cases at 1.2mm (one at 2mm "woops")

Bezel inserts got a sand and a bath in bleach based draino. Then a tuch of shoe-goo to keep um hanging on for a while.

Then i pulled the movements and re-lumed with noctiLumina. This was a challenge, with out pulling the hands I really have no idea how to make the hands look great. I gave up on the hands after the first watch. It had a cool vintage look but I also really like clean lines of fresh and bright hands. Lumeing the dial was cut and dry. A steady hand and a number 0 brush. The lume came out pretty good, uneven here and there but had the powdery look of old tritium. (Couple spills outside the lines but not bad).

Reassembled 2 complete watches and took one gromsmans beater Oyster Precision and put a 1680 band on it (looked cool!). Then gave him the head with the 2mm holes on black canvas. (i still need to get the 2mm bars to complete this piece){source?).

Enjoy the photo

[redwatch]

Any more pics? This one is hard to see unfortunately. It's too far back and too small for my aging eyes

[Tiyal]

Greased all the gaskets with an aircraft silicone for electronic components. My buddy and I just pressure tested at the friendly repair guy down the street and it tested at greater then 180ft!

[Tiyal]

Any more pics? This one is hard to see unfortunately. It's too far back and too small for my aging eyes

Just one, with the wedding life was Crazzzy !! my photographer took some of the set when I handed them out when I get these, I'll post.

This one is a crappy iphone shot with the lume complete, plus my vac'd GMT.

Edited August 11, 2011 by Tiyal

[TeeJay]

Looking good, and congrats on the wedding

[Tiyal]

Looking good, and congrats on the wedding

THANKS!!!

[dutchguy2]

First congratulations on your wedding.

Second, we need better pics

Sounds very cool what you did to them and I really like the idea behind it