Hi guys,
I thought I’d see if anyone had any experience with the 806 vintage navitimers. I’ve been wanting a good rep of this for a while but no factory has done it.
So I thought oh well I’ll make my own.
I currently have a 24h double wing logo 806 dial on the way and still need to get the slide rule thickness and crystal thickness to complete machining the parts. I’ll be using a seagull ST1901 with frozen gear @6.
I have machined the midcase blank ( blank only no lugs cutouts or top view profile yet), case back, rice bead bezel and modified navitimer bezel as option. This case will have an o-ring gasket at the bezel and threaded caseback with gasket so will it’ll be fully water proof when finished. The movement holder will be a circlip design that acts as a movement holder and bezel retainer keeping downward pressure on the bezel o-ring for waterproofing. I’ll keep the post updated
with progress over the next few months, onto some pics
I thought I’d see if anyone had any experience with the 806 vintage navitimers. I’ve been wanting a good rep of this for a while but no factory has done it.
So I thought oh well I’ll make my own.
I currently have a 24h double wing logo 806 dial on the way and still need to get the slide rule thickness and crystal thickness to complete machining the parts. I’ll be using a seagull ST1901 with frozen gear @6.
I have machined the midcase blank ( blank only no lugs cutouts or top view profile yet), case back, rice bead bezel and modified navitimer bezel as option. This case will have an o-ring gasket at the bezel and threaded caseback with gasket so will it’ll be fully water proof when finished. The movement holder will be a circlip design that acts as a movement holder and bezel retainer keeping downward pressure on the bezel o-ring for waterproofing. I’ll keep the post updated
with progress over the next few months, onto some pics
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