I finished assembling another watch.

Thanks for posting Skidder, very interesting and a very nice watch.

I was after a Omega Planet Ocean but I really like the idea of a custom watch and probably at a fraction of the price.

Can you design your own dials? I see you can buy the omega ones but they $160
 
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:) one more of the movement through the case back
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simulatorman said:
Good work. :)

Once you have all the parts, how long does it take to put them all together?
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probably about 4 hours taking my time

Sash said:
Very cool, how many frames per second are you getting?
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it copes with the final scene of crysis about as well as my trisli 8800gtx:p

Biohazard said:
What does the 25 jewels signify?
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jewels are used to reduce friction because of their hardness and smoothness they allow metal parts to slide over each other. This explains it better than I can:

http://trusted-forwarder.org/elgin/help/watch_jewels.html
 
Hencore said:
I was after a Omega Planet Ocean but I really like the idea of a custom watch and probably at a fraction of the price.

Can you design your own dials? I see you can buy the omega ones but they $160
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I have started designing a dial in photoshop but the hassly bit is getting the design on to the dial - there are companies which specialise in making dials but they only really want orders of 10 plus.

It is possible to buy blank dials and do them yourself but I don't think I have the patience for that. I was thinking of using a water slide decal to make a dial applied to a blank as I've seen someone on a watch forum do that with some success. I would then add my own lum to it.

For the most part I think I'll just stick with generic unbranded dials.

Von Smallhausen said:
How long did it take to master making your own watches ?

Did you attend college for a course ?
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No course but I am going to take one that will take me through totally deconstructing and reassembling the 6497-1 and 2824-2. So far I have done partial disassembly of both of those but haven't stripped them completely. Only been messing with watches for a month or two.
 
Hehe that mechanism looks very familiar - it's close to the ML37.

Have you tried blueing the screws etc using a bunsen?
 
just finished another one!

Just finished this skeleton watch. Hand wound with sub-seconds at 6pm. I built it to sell and it is on the bay but can't help but want to keep it! Hoping it doesn't make reserve.

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