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Anyone sitting on those "newer" cartel vintage 300 seamasters, i need your help


Champagnesky

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Hi! Ive been wanting to do a franken vintage 300 for a long time, considering that the 565 movements are pretty affordable it sounded like a nice project. Ive been in touch with another member on another forum who purchased a sillix rep and a gen dial and caseback. Unfortunately the gen dial and caseback had different sizes that the sillix one and were basically too small to fit. So using a sillix midcase kinda falls of. There are also cartel reps of the 300 out there, if anyone has one, could you measure the dial width and the caseback width to see if gen parts will fit? the

sizes of the parts are:

 

Sillix dial: 30.90mm
gen dial: 27.50mm

Sillix caseback: 34.97mm
gen caseback: 34.16mm

 

 

 

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Hi! Ive been wanting to do a franken vintage 300 for a long time, considering that the 565 movements are pretty affordable it sounded like a nice project. Ive been in touch with another member on another forum who purchased a sillix rep and a gen dial and caseback. Unfortunately the gen dial and caseback had different sizes that the sillix one and were basically too small to fit. So using a sillix midcase kinda falls of. There are also cartel reps of the 300 out there, if anyone has one, could you measure the dial width and the caseback width to see if gen parts will fit? the sizes of the parts are:

 

Sillix dial: 30.90mm
gen dial: 27.50mm

Sillix caseback: 34.97mm
gen caseback: 34.16mm

 

 

 

 

None of the rep cases are suitable for a Franken build, including Cartel, all the dimensions are off. You can pick up a gen case from CousinsUK though.

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15 hours ago, jackflash said:

None of the rep cases are suitable for a Franken build, including Cartel, all the dimensions are off. You can pick up a gen case from CousinsUK though.

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ok thx mate! Then I know... Yeah, ive seen those on cousins, but buying a gen case would be too easy :) and it would not be a franken....

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