sunnydale Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Thanks! Everything is going very good - Why dont you also make a thread with some pictures? Today we found out that you do not need much improvement on the sunken DW as soon as you mount a GEN dial in the right way. Very cool. Try it out mate. In the mean time I also decided to get a double side AR on the crystal. It will be back next week. Also I decided to relume the GEN dial and the hands. Lume is good. Do not get me wrong. But I am really picky and in my opinion it can be stronger - It always can! Man I can wait to have this finished and on my arm again. I will, I will. ATM I don't have anything to share Do you have pictures of the gen dial installed? I will be doing it this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig88 Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 That pic of the gen dial appears to be missing the border around the dw? So badly wanting a franken of this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig88 Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 Hi mate, how is your Franken process going? I am just about to get the gen dial from the post office and double side AR coated crystal should arrive in a 1 week. I will get another DW to fix the sunken DW problem too. I also got Orloff strap last week, it is very nice! Can someone explain how to do that DW fix correctly? The gen has a sunken dw too so it's fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted September 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 That pic of the gen dial appears to be missing the border around the dw? So badly wanting a franken of this... The GEN dial has been completely reworked by my watchsmith. It is also relumed now. The silver border is (of course) not missing. Just got some pictures. Will post details when I pick it up end of the week. The gen has a sunken dw too so it's fine. Thanks mate. Still with the GEN dial it is not as sunken as with the REP dial. It actually is a huge improvement in my eyes to switch to GEN dial - Though quite expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 I am always believer that a gen dial for virtually every watch is the biggest improvement we can bestow on our reps. I have always found that other than the vintage stuff if you are patient they do come up reasonably - especially for IWC . I did it on the SS and Ti GST's and on the 3717. I am probably the only person who bought a gen dial before there was a rep in case they ever came out with one. Still haven't bought the rep but will build this one some day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_B Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 I am always believer that a gen dial for virtually every watch is the biggest improvement we can bestow on our reps. This is true!! All my replicas have a genuine dial at least. It looks so much better. Seconds best improbement - and easiest - is a genuine strap. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted September 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 I am always believer that a gen dial for virtually every watch is the biggest improvement we can bestow on our reps. I have always found that other than the vintage stuff if you are patient they do come up reasonably - especially for IWC . I did it on the SS and Ti GST's and on the 3717. I am probably the only person who bought a gen dial before there was a rep in case they ever came out with one. Still haven't bought the rep but will build this one some day. Nice comment! Thanks! I agree a 100%. This is true!! All my replicas have a genuine dial at least. It looks so much better. Seconds best improbement - and easiest - is a genuine strap. I agree and: Wow! I still have to catch up on this. Not every watch has a GEN dial but at least some GEN parts (Bezel insert, ...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted September 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 So its time for an update. BTW I am building this with Uwe/FineDD. I think some of you know him? He lives near by me and has some of my watches. He works very professional. I can only recommend him. He did an hell of a job on my GEN dial here where one hour indicator was missing. He totally rebuild it. Here you can see the beautiful GEN dial with his missing hour indicator at 2 o clock. FineDD softly took the indicator from 1 o clock of, made his own templet and rebuild the hour indicators. The GEN dial 100% rebuild, relumed and in factory new state. And here it is. Build together with the new double side ARed crystal, no more sunken date wheel and of course relumed hours, minutes and seconds hands. And here we go... the LUME. Thats it for today. Can´t wait to put it on the GEN strap again. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 WOW WOW! Very nice job! Uwe knows how to do it for sure! This is true!! All my replicas have a genuine dial at least. It looks so much better. Seconds best improbement - and easiest - is a genuine strap. I would say in many cases dial and crystal go hand in hand. If the crystal has no AR or bad AR, then there is no use of changing a gen dial. But true, genuine strap is so much easier than getting a gen crystal or rep ARred. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted September 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 WOW WOW! Very nice job! Uwe knows how to do it for sure! Thank you very much. Yes Uwe did an awesome job! I would say in many cases dial and crystal go hand in hand. If the crystal has no AR or bad AR, then there is no use of changing a gen dial. But true, genuine strap is so much easier than getting a gen crystal or rep ARred. 100% right. With the double side AR the GEN dial just looks perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Mine says hello Gen dial, double side AR, not so sunken DW and Orloff strap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Yes, mate!! Welcome to the Franken Big Pilot Club. Looks beautiful! The GEN dial shows off so good under the double side ARed crystal, right? So happy the I decided to take the double AR too. You have a lume shoot too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) edit Edited October 7, 2012 by Watchfreund Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Great stuff. I may have to build one of these. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Yes, mate!! Welcome to the Franken Big Pilot Club. Looks beautiful! The GEN dial shows off so good under the double side ARed crystal, right? So happy the I decided to take the double AR too. You have a lume shoot too? Yes the double AR is a must! One crappy shot of the lume, here you go. Rep hand lume is very similar to a gen dial lume so I am very happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gimme Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Pimping! What's up with the power reserve hand? Any reason why you decided to leave it there, instead of all the way to the top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Pimping! What's up with the power reserve hand? Any reason why you decided to leave it there, instead of all the way to the top? Just felt like it Why should it always be 100 % loaded? I don't [censored] that much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted October 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Yes the double AR is a must! One crappy shot of the lume, here you go. Rep hand lume is very similar to a gen dial lume so I am very happy. Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 Pics? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchfreund Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Pics? Looks good! Though there seems to be a bit difference between dial and hands lume. Thats why I let my watchsmith relume everything Take a look at my lume pics. What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 That is just in the picture, irl they look just the same to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnydale Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Do you have pics of the finished watch mate? Mine says hello, got a gen croc strap some time ago and loving it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livinglegend510 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Do you have pics of the finished watch mate? Mine says hello, got a gen croc strap some time ago and loving it! Hi sunnydale- did you do dial replacement yourself? if so what glue did you us for the dial and pr hand? also how did you remove the sliver boarder around the date window? thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astonjenks Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Big Pilot's convention My BP5004 on Peter Croc strap says hi AJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Big Pilot's convention My BP5004 on Peter Croc strap says hi AJ Ah your strap came in! Looks great AJ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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