watchguy51 Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Has anyone here removed hour markers from a watch, and replaced them with others? I have a watch project where in which I love the colour of the dial I have, but I want to switch the markers. Anyone tried it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icoopernicus Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 I think you'll want to remove the hour markers from the back of the dial, they should be attached with a pin in a hole. this should keep you from scratching the dial. If you replace them with markers of a different size or shape there may be marks left on the dial from the old markers. for the record, I have not done this, I'm sure someone will give you better advice than I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbh Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 It doesn't seem too difficult. I took them off a SD dial and replaced them as well as replacing one on an Omega PO dial. People take off dial markers for re-luming and re-install them all the time. As long as they are the same type of markers with the same foot position. Just push them out from the back of the dial and re-glue from the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 would anyone happen to know if maxi markers could be swapped out for regular size 16610 markers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icoopernicus Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 would anyone happen to know if maxi markers could be swapped out for regular size 16610 markers? This would depend entirely on the foot position, as mentioned above, if this is different you could end up with all of the markers misaligned, too close or too far from the edge of the dial. It would be less work to source a rep 16610 dial and just do a swap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 This would depend entirely on the foot position, as mentioned above, if this is different you could end up with all of the markers misaligned, too close or too far from the edge of the dial. It would be less work to source a rep 16610 dial and just do a swap. yeah, i was looking to get a 114060 ceramic dial, remove the maxi markers and transplant on some regular sized ones and have an accurate 14060M dial to use in a star time or TC case making a very accurate 14060 (albeit the gen is ever so slightly smaller) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSTEEL Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Thanks for those photos Mike, much appreciated as I too am planning on similar to op's plan, but in my case, simply correcting a couple of markers which are out of alignment slightly. I'm under the impression, when I remove these, I will need to make one of the holes slightly bigger to allow fine adjustment before gluing back into position from the dial back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchguy51 Posted March 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 would anyone here happen to have experience doing this with a Seiko dial? The markers I'd like to swap are between 2 Seiko dials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchguy51 Posted March 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 What do u mean between two dials, sandwich dial? Or taking from one to place another? To take them off a dial from 1 watch, and put them on a dial from another watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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