mattheis Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Just picked this Tudor Oysterdate up from a m2m sale, the case was out-of-the-box clean so I wanted to give it a 30-year hard life look. I updated the sterile crown to an Athaya 702 crown, shaved the crownguards, beatup the case and plexi. stained the dial markers and matte varnished the dial (which appears to be a RafflesTime dial), as well as stained the datewheel so it is more cream than bright white. The insert is temporary and will be replaced because it faded to more of a blue than I wanted it to, I was hoping for a matte grey, And Im not happy with how the pearl turned out. All I need now is the correct caseback to replace the sterile one that it came with, drill out the lugs, and to keep working the case and plexi with cape cod (I went a little overboard on the edges of the plexi, I must have run into a lot of door jams while I was wearing it ). Not bad for a cheap pickup 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam007 Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 wow good job on the aging. Really gives it the vintage look paired with those shoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphillipe Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Nice work !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendota Explorer Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Very nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferristara Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 .....stunning built mate......! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattheis Posted July 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 adding a wristie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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