hi all.
so....ive had a couple of vip mariners laying about. i just could not bring myself to wear them....guess i'm not a rolex guy..and they were pretty flawed.
awhile ago i saw a seiko monster someone had bead blasted on a military watch forum ....it looked great...really tough. and since i have a sandblast cabinet..and these subs i'm never gonna wear....all that was missinng was a little free time and boredom.
all the ingredients came together last night.
here are the results.
the sterile dial blasto mariner.
i removed the rolex text from the dial with goo gone. did a pretty hack job of it....so im giong to search for a good sterile dial replacement.
then i tore the watch down to case with crown and back installed (crystal removed), and bezel assy i covered the dial opening with gaffers tape (duct tape would do) and into the blast cabinet.
i did not have any blasting bead media...so i just used al-ox. it is pretty aggressive so it only took about 30 seconds for the case..and 20 sec for the bezel.
a little cleaning...and assembly and viola........
from this
to this....
i have another of these watches...the lv model...i think ill get some less agressive media and give it a go with that one as well.
what do you think?
now i'm looking through all my watch boxes seeing what else i have that may get blasto.
l1
so....ive had a couple of vip mariners laying about. i just could not bring myself to wear them....guess i'm not a rolex guy..and they were pretty flawed.
awhile ago i saw a seiko monster someone had bead blasted on a military watch forum ....it looked great...really tough. and since i have a sandblast cabinet..and these subs i'm never gonna wear....all that was missinng was a little free time and boredom.
all the ingredients came together last night.
here are the results.
the sterile dial blasto mariner.
i removed the rolex text from the dial with goo gone. did a pretty hack job of it....so im giong to search for a good sterile dial replacement.
then i tore the watch down to case with crown and back installed (crystal removed), and bezel assy i covered the dial opening with gaffers tape (duct tape would do) and into the blast cabinet.
i did not have any blasting bead media...so i just used al-ox. it is pretty aggressive so it only took about 30 seconds for the case..and 20 sec for the bezel.
a little cleaning...and assembly and viola........
from this
to this....
i have another of these watches...the lv model...i think ill get some less agressive media and give it a go with that one as well.
what do you think?
now i'm looking through all my watch boxes seeing what else i have that may get blasto.
l1
