anton Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 Well, after three days of ownership, my Navitimer World broke after myself attempting a mod fix by tighetening the inner bezel screws to create more "friction" when rotating it. Stupid me; I didn't read the instructions telling me to remove the movement first. I must have messed up something in it due to the shock it received by me reaffixing the bezel by banging it atop a dresser. But anyway, I succeeded in needed friction. But the movement died! Since I had a spare A7750 laying around, I decided to do a switch. I initially assumed that if the GMT mod was anything like the 2836-2 mod, it would be an easy switch. But alas, it wasn't. It made do with a "module" that made the GMT hand function like one on the 2893-3; that moves in increments of one-hour. Since the top plates of the dead GMT movement and the donor were different, I didn't want to risk wasting two movements. So I decided to do away with the GMT and have myself a standard navitimer with useless 24 hour markers. But as I put the hands back together, I bent the "B" chrono seconds hand and now that was useless. I ended up putting it all back together, and this was it three days ago when I just received it: And three days later, replacing the dead movement with a new one: In case if you noticed, some of you might think that I completely botched up by putting hands that don't belong on the watch. But I like it. I've put black dedicated black hands for the chronograph functions, and I "solved" the recessed datewheel issue that is present on this rep. I guess now it's more flawed than the gen, but it couldn't be worse, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtd Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 Looks good to me Do you have AR on your crystal?? If so, where did you buy your watch from? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest watchbuff Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 How did you fix the recessed datewheel issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anton Posted October 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 If you notice the first pic from the second, I had removed the GMT hand which was able to bring back the flushed datewheel. I'm in the process of sourcing hands and a 7754 movement. Expensive, but probably would be worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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