janeto72 Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 we need the correct datewheel guys.......i have the resources to make an overlay but i need a date wheel or a 1:1 scan of one..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gplracer Posted July 9, 2012 Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 Janeto72 you are going wild man on the 7032! Keep going!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mir36 Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Fantastic project M. You always manage to bring out the best from the best of the board. Just imagine if you actually ran your own watch company! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted February 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 (edited) UPDATE 02/03/2013 So what's been happening to my 7032 since last summer? Unfortunately, it remained one of my most problematic projects, made worse by a movement swap last autumn. The Valjoux 7734 from siesta181 had been running well, but I discovered late in the day that it actually contained a 30-minute counter, not a 45-minute as advertised. It was sheer stupidity on my part for not detecting it earlier, but siesta was nice enough to agree to a full refund. In hindsight, I should have kept it. The search for a new movement led me to an incredibly shitty Dufonte, which was one of the ugliest watches I've ever strapped to my wrist. Thing is, the movement looked pretty good in the pictures, so I thought I'd be safe. Little did I know how many new headaches this dull brown chronograph would bring. Fast-forward to last month, and I finally decided to send my hapless 7032 off to The Zigmeister himiself. Skip ahead a few weeks, and let me quote a few highlights from his prognosis on the movement: the mainspring was found to be attached to the barrel by someone having drilled a hole in the spring, and then screwing the spring to the side of the barrel, with the screw sticking out significantly from the side of the barrel and jamming into the other coils during hand removal it was noted that the subdial hands were not broached to fit the posts properly as a result, the hands were hammered on, which has resulted in irreparable damage to the 4th wheel post (running seconds) during initial assembly and testing, there was excessive friction in the motion works, the wheels were jamming up, this was the cause of the poor amplitude of the balance wheel extensive troubleshooting finally revealed that the 4th wheel upper pivot was bent and this was the cause of the friction and loss of power only solution is either a new 4th wheel, or replacement of the pivot with a new manufactured one Yikes! But would you believe that I got an "Everything fixed!" email within a week? The guy is good, and so far the watch -timekeeping and chrono functions- has been running excellently. I will miss him terribly. Aside from the movement, this 7032 also underwent a few cosmetic changes last October, courtesy of fellow Canuck and all-around good guy, janeto72. The last few months have been so busy, that I never got the chance to note them back then. The first thing JT did was airbrush my chrono sweep (which was looking tatty in the earlier photos), and attach the subdial hands that a bunch of us have been sweating over. Looking good! Next, he eliminated the pinched mid-edge found on the left side of DW's mid-cases. It honestly never bothered me, but JT was adamant that it had to go. Here's a shot of that edge on an unmolested DW case (top) and my modded 7032 (bottom: The other part that JT modded was the outer tips of the crown guards. I had asked jmb to leave them flat, but JT correctly observed that there should be a slight convexity to them. So he went to work on subtly curving them: You can see the softer look of the CGs by comparing with the shots on the first page. As a bonus, JT also plucked the gob of solder off my 700 crown. Lastly, JT took a crack at deepening the engravings on the caseback. It was a fine enhancement of justasgood's work: I just checked to see that my first post on my first 7032 build was all the way back in October 2010. Wow! Sometimes these things take time. The 7032 has always been one of my most admired watches. It's definitely a looker. Maybe now I can also call it one of my most dependable. Big thanks to janeto72, The Zigmeister, and all the behind-the-scenes guys who have been sourcing and negotiating for 7032 parts. Edited February 3, 2013 by LHOOQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiesn089 Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Stunner, wear it well! Amazing project, beautiful watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiker01 Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Damn M.......nicely done! You make me jealous! Now mine has a cousin........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted February 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Thanks, guys! Damn M.......nicely done! You make me jealous! Now mine has a cousin........ F, yours has a fine pedigree (wish I'd had the cash to take red's Snowflake off his hands), and you managed to waterproof it. I wouldn't even think of walking by a sauna door with my 7032! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akira Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Mother******! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panerai153 Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Beautiful watch. The trip to the top of the mountain is fraught with many a misstep,rocky trails and dead ends, but man when you get to the top, you sure as heck can't beat the view!! Yours and Hike's are the best 7032's outside of gens I have seen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) Akira: Watch your mouth! panerai153: Thanks! Even though it took a few years to get my 7032 to this state, it still doesn't seem so long ago when I was admiring ubi's and lanikai's Tudors and wondering how the hell I was ever going to get something like them. With patience and cash, apparently! (And a whole lot of help from some very good people on this forum.) As for mountain climbing analogies, I leave those for F. Edited February 5, 2013 by LHOOQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seafoam Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 WOW! Very nice lhooq. I don't have mine any more..sniffle sniffle.. But always thought the case needed a bit of reshaping. You/all involved have nailed it sir. Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwatch Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Looks amazing M! I have to say, that is one of the best looking case backs I've seen yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) seafoam: The only things I wish I could change would be the position of the lugholes and the crispness of the edges. But it might be easier to cast a new case than fix those, so I'm OK with what I've got! Looks amazing M! I have to say, that is one of the best looking case backs I've seen yet! K's a whiz with his dremel, and janeto72 had an amazingly steady hand on whatever dental device he used to go over those engravings. I place this caseback next to a DW stock unit, and it's breathtaking. Like so: Edited February 5, 2013 by LHOOQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiesn089 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) M, this thing is amazing! It really is. Your case looks exactly like a well cared for gen. Projects like this are the perfect example for why once you get hooked on this hobby of ours you can never go back to collecting watches in a "normal" fashion. No gen owner/collector will ever be able to appreciate his pieces the way we can! We just know every little detail, simply because we have to in order to be able to build something as accurate and perfect as this. Edited February 5, 2013 by wiesn089 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeto72 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 WOW!!!! That looks amazing M....if I do say so myself......gald you like the subtle changes!!! JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephry73 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Janeto, I need my case back to look like that brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeto72 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 send it to me and i'll take care of it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamestan119 Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 alot of pictyure can't see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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