Champagnesky Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflash Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 AAH............. Jack knows! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagnesky Posted April 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 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. 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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