irate03 Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 This has been 8 months in the making, not long by some standards on this forum I know, but the longest for me. I've had some great help along the way, special mentions to Mel, mark_midlands, Elias and 951MAX. The original inspiration came from the movement that I picked up late last year. I know it's not gen but it's a beautiful thing and I couldn't see it mounted in anything else. The case is River's 6154 with a lot of reshaping. Because the stem was 0.9 and I couldn't find a replacement I decided to replace River's crown and tube with one from Athaya (his new bronze 8mm would look amazing here but he doesn't have it in 0.9mm) I drilled out the hole for the tube and wanted to raise the tube away from the case and solder it up like the old Rlx's , after many failed attempts mark stepped in and did an amazing job at soldering for me. Never one to let it be and despite Marks amazing job, I had already ordered the 'correct' solder and decided to add to what Mark had done and sand it back. The dial is one of V's amazing Rol's that I have lightly aged, it is so stunning that I can't bring myself to go nuts with it. The movement is still a little vague, as far as I can make out it's Swiss made and branded Nacar, and all I can find reference to is Turkish railroad pocket watches. I gave it a clean and filled the engraved text with red acrylic, it's the most accurate movement I've owned. Hands are Adrians, I had a spare set of cali hands that I'd stripped off the blue and had been heat treating but I decided to 'borrow' a double pencil minute hand from another set and treat it the same, it's a combination of heat, then egg in a bag, then lumed with the good old stuff AKA cornholio, topped off with a faux CP The strap I made along with Elias's nickel vintage knife edge brass buckle. I wanted it to have some vintage Rol feel the way it is stitched and it is soft as butter. On to the pics, I just re-finished my 6152/1 with an LP dial and new hands so that's crept in to some of the shots too I had some issues with the movement slowing, i think screwing the crown down may have worn away some solder that got on to the thread, I filed down the stem a fraction at a time and it seems to have worked. The crown is not pressing the stem against the movement now and when it's screwed down everything ticks along nicely. Oh and I decided while it was off that I would 'bronze' the crown too.....just becuzzzz here are somenew pics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panadyne Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Nice work - it really is a nice piece all round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onealyan Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 WoW ！！ Old School style ！I like it ！ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spankster23 Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Very cool, looks great. That movement is very unique. When you say reshape, are you actually filing down metal, or just the crown modifications? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penerai1950 Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 wow..what a classic built... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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