bertieng Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Anyone has the experience putting a gen. VJ23 into the DW case? Will it fit OK. Thinking to do it as the DW Mystery movt is dead. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Yes, in theory, it should fit. The V23 is just a V72 without the hour subdial, and both are supposed to fit the DW case. However, I had ALOT of trouble getting a v72 movement to fit into 1 of the 3 DW cases I have. It took several hours of dremeling, filing & sanding to get it to fit. I have not heard of anyone else having as much trouble as I did with this 1 case, so it may have been a defective case. The circled areas had metal that needed to be removed before I could fit the v72 movement into the case I finally got it in, but it took ALOT of work The others took a bit of work, but not alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmg Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Bertieng, It will fit, I have one in my mystery movement 6263, The Zigmeister did the work -I'm not sure how easy or difficult it was. I lucked out and found a lone movement. I could bring myself to gutting one from a vintage Croton I had. You will need the VJ72 hands though to mix and match with the mystery movement hands as the hour, minute, and sub dial hands do not fit my VJ23. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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