1680 Red Franken

[Gw4k]

When I read that the 1680 and Tudor Subs shared the case, it gave me the idea for a franken:

Use a yuki dial on a Gen tudor.

Lucked out and found a local seller of a 76100 and sent it to my smith with a yuki Dial.

The gen Tudor came with mercedes hands so I left those in.

I was going to replace the crystal and install a 127, since it had what looked like a service crystal.

Compared to my Snowflake the tophat was noticeably lower, PLUS the magnification was less on the cyclops.

But eventually I left it alone because unfortunately, the DW window did not align.

The 1680 red dials window was bigger and right justified as opposed to the Gen Tudor which was left justified.

Since it is for my own fun, and the dial mod is reversible I decided to go for it anyways.

Here is what I got:

[dieselpower]

Seems like a really good idea to me but why not go the whole hog? Get the 127 glass and a gen bracelet et voila!

[highoeyazmuhudee]

interesting

[Gw4k]

Seems like a really good idea to me but why not go the whole hog? Get the 127 glass and a gen bracelet et voila!

The yuki dial fails me on the DW, the mag is 1.5 and it helps "mask" the misaligned DW. Plus the service crystal is epoxied on! I wanted to keep as many things as is Sony can turn the mod around easily if I wanted to.

[sneed12]

The yuki dial fails me on the DW

You need a DWO.

[praetor]

if you still want to be able to turn it around then buy an eta datewheel and stick a DWO, save the tudor datewheel. Then you can use the 127.

[sneed12]

if you still want to be able to turn it around then buy an eta datewheel and stick a DWO, save the tudor datewheel. Then you can use the 127.

Yep. Less than $60 in parts unless you go gen on the crystal.

[Gw4k]

Awesome! Where can I get the DWO?

[dieselpower]

If you're any good at these things take a look at FXRandys tutorial on how to do a home made one - for free!

[sneed12]

Awesome! Where can I get the DWO?

BK or TC, if you're willing to go with a modern font datewheel.

If you want open 6/9, I sourced these from Trevor a while ago but I don't have any left, you could try emailing him

[Gw4k]

Its almost there! jus need to fix that date wheel

@Sneed

I definitely want an open 6/9 Silver datewheel.

So this datewheel sits on top of the current datewheel and will be left justified?