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Tudor 7928, first modding attempt…….


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Inspired by the amazing work on all rep fora I finally bit the bullet...So I got me a few vintage Tudors and Rolex(es)? a while ago as a project for modding. After reading, trying, screwing up, rereading, retrying I finally came out with a first result on a 7928.

 

First the Asian clone which didn’t run was replaced with a gen Eta I had in my parts box.

Still trying to find a gen Tudor vintage rotor but for now it is ok.

 

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Then I filed down the dimples on the crown as I hadn’t have a correct crown.

I “relumed” the hands and markers with a mix of tea, lemon juice and freeze dried coffee to get the tone I was looking for. My first attempt wasn’t what I wanted as I put too much of the color at once on the hands so I retried and used 4 layers on the lume and also on the hands to get a vintage effect.

 

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Trial and error with the casework,...I screwed up the first case as I went too far reshaping it….In the end I got my second case the way I liked it.

Materials used: files, dremel, scotchbrite, sandpapersticks 360 and 1000 grain and sandpaper 1000.

 

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The usual mods followed…..I bought some 2 mm pushpins, drilled the lugholes.

Next thing was to age the bezel. I put the insert in a cup with lemon juice and put it outside in the sun for 2 weeks…:( no result gggrgrggrgrg$%^& so I tried some bleach and got me a ghost bezel in less then a minute…..again it turned out that less is more as the bleaching went too fast so I ordered some inserts to experiment with…. I also sanded the bezel edges.

 

So here is the result, it needs more tweaking….but as a total newbie on modding I am not unhappy…Sorry for the bad pics as I had no patience to make good ones...Any advice is appreciated….

 

 

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Have you looked into an Athaya 700 crown and tube? That rep crown is pretty thick.

You could also polish the sides of the case- some polishing compound with the felt wheel on a Dremel like tool will take off the sanding marks. You can also get 1500 and 2000 wet/dry sand paper.

You've definitely got that dial and hands well aged!

Is this the cartel case- it looks pretty good?

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