1665
Case Work - thinning down the middle of the case, shaping + polishing the side profile, reshaping crown guards, reshaping the lugs, restoring the top and sides of the lugs, aging / vintagization with multiple polishing cycles in between
- Re-cover the legs (clean)
- Lug holes drilled to accept Gen spec spring bars
- Re-drilled tube hole and tapping new threads for the tube hole
- Drilled a bur for the tube in the housing and installed the Gen Crown + Tube and sealed the wires from the housing-tube
- Vintagized between the lugs to mimic ~ 50 years of wear and to make the laser engraving look more Gen-like (so you can wear the watch with a leather strap as well)
- New dial feet attached to the dial (for the position of the ETA movement feet)
- Surface of the date wheel in brass sanded on a lathe
- Date disc overlay (Rolex font with flat top 3, open 6 and 9) aligned and glued to the prepared ETA date wheel (aligned in the date window of the dial)
- Aged / vintage (!) Date disc overlay
- New movement of the movement stem + stem adjustment for the Gen Rolex 703/704 crown
- Tropic 39 Superdome installed and sealed
- Bezel ring slightly thinned and tight on the retaining ring
- Bezel Insert aged and re-coated with acrylic lacquer after aging
- Perle tritium bezel installed
- Vintage lume matched on the dial and hands + Slight aging of the hands
- Vintagized bracelet, butter-greased links and softened sharp edges
- 580 Adjusted end buttons for thinner horns