Anyone modded a rep crown?

[watchguy51]

One noticeable flaw with Rolex reps, is that the crowns often don't have the crimped inner edge that the gens have. I remember once hearing of someone filing down the inner edge of their rep crown to make it thinner and to give it the correct inner edge.

 

Has anyone hear tried it? Can you post pics of your results?

[JoeyB]

Yep. I used a small file on one and emery cloth double sided taped to a popsicle stick on this one. Eyeballed the angle, went slow and it worked well. 

 

 http://www.rwgforum.net/topic/140709-6mm-brevet-crown/?hl=%2B6mm+%2Bbrevet#entry1046879

[aeromatic]

  On 12/7/2012 at 10:44 PM, watchguy51 said:

One noticeable flaw with Rolex reps, is that the crowns often don't have the crimped inner edge that the gens have. I remember once hearing of someone filing down the inner edge of their rep crown to make it thinner and to give it the correct inner edge.

 

Has anyone hear tried it? Can you post pics of your results?

 

 

I milled the rep crown from both sides to make it appear thinner the watch on the right has the same crown width it looks thinner but was not shortened just tappered on the inside and a little taken off the front edge.

sorry not a very clear photo it was done on a lathe but i think some members have used a drill and a file.

i have since fitted a gen crown and tube i think it makes the watch look better

[FxrAndy]

I have turned down the inner side of an MBW crown to give it a 702 shape but i did not atempt to make it look crimped

Its the one on the left

[aeromatic]

Looks great Fxrandy !

Edited December 10, 2012 by aeromatic

[GWP123]

  On 12/9/2012 at 8:30 PM, aeromatic said:

I milled the rep crown from both sides to make it appear thinner the watch on the right has the same crown width it looks thinner but was not shortened just tappered on the inside and a little taken off the front edge.

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sorry not a very clear photo it was done on a lathe but i think some members have used a drill and a file.

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i have since fitted a gen crown and tube i think it makes the watch look better

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Hey where'd you get these reps??

[mymanmatt]

I do it with my dremal.  Takes about 2 mins. Then lightly polish the edge. Looks really good

[aeromatic]

  On 12/1/2013 at 4:17 AM, GWP123 said:

Hey where'd you get these reps??

Sorry i just saw your post these are from puretime !