Hi everybody, I wanted to turn a Bamford that I bought for my wife and she never liked, into a Smurf.
I installed an insert in blue and then ordered a blue dial from raffles.
Ken sent me a lovely blue dial and handset and I set out to install it myself.
After researching on the forum, I took a Bamford apart and removed the movement, hands, and dial. Very proud of myself at this point.
This is when it went wrong, the golden fitAnd neither did the hands.
I then went on to put a Bamford dial and hands back on the watch. Unfortunately the hands are simply spinning round and round so clearly I haven’t put on properly. And pushing them further on I’ve bent them, and when I straighten them they don’t really look straight.
The hands that were sent by Raffles are not as deep if that makes sense. He said the dial was for a 2824 and it fitted the holes but the date wheel was way off.
Disaster.
Now I want to make a shark out of it anyway.
Any advice? Also anyone want the raffles blue dial and hands. I have it in UK.
Love Rolex, Omega and Tudor.
Based in UK
I installed an insert in blue and then ordered a blue dial from raffles.
Ken sent me a lovely blue dial and handset and I set out to install it myself.
After researching on the forum, I took a Bamford apart and removed the movement, hands, and dial. Very proud of myself at this point.
This is when it went wrong, the golden fitAnd neither did the hands.
I then went on to put a Bamford dial and hands back on the watch. Unfortunately the hands are simply spinning round and round so clearly I haven’t put on properly. And pushing them further on I’ve bent them, and when I straighten them they don’t really look straight.
The hands that were sent by Raffles are not as deep if that makes sense. He said the dial was for a 2824 and it fitted the holes but the date wheel was way off.
Disaster.
Now I want to make a shark out of it anyway.
Any advice? Also anyone want the raffles blue dial and hands. I have it in UK.
Love Rolex, Omega and Tudor.
Based in UK