Chips81 Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Just after some advise on a up grade to my wm/bk yatchmaster. Is it worth upgrading to gen crown, tube and maybe a crystal. Also does anyone know how much it would cost to be fitted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligoat Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 This depends on how easily you can pick up the gen parts at a reasonable price and just how important it really is to you. I just got a SSD v2 which I'm converting into a 16660 matte dial SD and the rep crown and tube are really pretty good- just like the BK crown and tube- so I'm not swapping out at this point. If i decided to in the future, I would pick up a used 24-703 crown for around $50 and an aftermarket tube for around $20 and install them myself. Installation labor is really only worth $25 as far as I'm concerned. I tap the case hole and then install the tube with the tube wrench and some loc-tite ($80 worth of tools). Crown is simply a matter of unscrewing the old crown from the stem and screwing on the new one. Crystals are a little more hard to come by and run $125-250. Installing them is another $25 deal. Maybe the clarity of the Rolex 25-295-C-1 is better than the WM9/BK crystal, but I doubt it's much. I have a gen sub and the crystal looks the same as my rep crystals, but the laser etched crown is just about impossible to see w/o a loupe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chips81 Posted October 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 Thanks for the reply and the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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