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HOW TO: A simple & easy pictoral guide to modding your Rolex

DiverDown81

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When you take off the original bezel, do you just pry it off? Is there any way to switch the bezels without destroying them?
 

Aeatemad

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Can you update pics? Photobucket has disabled them. Perhaps direct upload to RWI?

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d4m.test

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Echoing above, it seems a very well written in depth guide and is a shame that the pics don't work.
 

Xiaoxi

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Wow this guy just makes me want to get a sub now. Awesome tutorial
 

Ecender

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Awesome post by the OP congrats!
Pictures works well.
Link for the right insert does not work.


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bc1221

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Excellent post but why not take the movement completely out? If you were just modding this by hand, it would be fine but I would not recommend leaving the movement inside the watch using a 4000rpm buffer. There is a lot of tiny little parts that could easily get loose in a case that’s vibrating that fast.

If you can get the stem out, you may as well just take the movement out. Those little jewels can get knocked out of place very easily and can cause issues later.

Overall, a great post. I remember having to try to figure this out myself. Picked up a pack of small files and damn near every type of sandpaper I could to mod my first 1680.




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Tamure

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If there could only be one thread. This one could be it. Thank you for this.
 

Gen AJM

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Couldn't agree more that there is no definitive answer to the best Sub. Although there are great great factories coming ever closer to the perfect 1:1, I feel that there won't ever be such, as mentioned also above. These factories need to keep making money, so each model will have flaws that are corrected, and new incredibly tiny flaws.

So, this tutorial is perfect for those wanting to build. Its also pretty fun, speaking from experience. I wish I found this forum and thread when i started out.

Top post!!
 
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