201a with a super special enzo modified dial!

[pamfried]

YES SIR!!!!!

No fighing in my thread boys...

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[babola]

After you mentioned it, it was one of those things that I started to notice, because I knew it was there. So I thought I'd see how easy it was to do? I have done two and I can say it's easy if you just don't rush it. The amount of work involved is very minimal due to the little amount of material to remove. But you can tell the difference, once it's done.

I don't think I would go to the trouble to undo a complete watch and perform it. If the watch is unassembled, then, it's an easy added, attention step.

I was going to say that, as it was the very first thing I noticed...but you're never 100% with the pics, and noone has attempted (so far, anyway) that little mod ...devil's in the detail, as they say... 8)

Did my post from few weeks back contribute to your decision to attempt filing down the pin top at all ?

Cheers mate, it does sound easy by your own words, I've been trying to visualise the way you'd hold the cannon pin against the sanding block/grinding wheel etc...did you use tweezers, pliers or simply held the pin between the tip of your fingers against the sanding block ?

Any fine polishing required at all ?

Great result, really.

cheers,
babola

 

[MET-Rx]

Sanding the pin to flat..... that is some serious delicate and intricate work.

I couldn't count how many I would ruin attempting that!

 

[babola]

Wow, talking about obsession with those minute details ...I salute you, mate !



babola

 

[azgjav]

master enzo, great mods!!

what does all these mean? does it mean that if i do the cannon pin fit and polish the pin top, it'll still seem recessed at certain angles? i've been doing that to all my historics, pin fix + polishing...can anyone w a gen comment on how it's done on the gen article?

:? learning something new everyday..

 

[Cucumber_Jones]

enzo - the photos from the aquitorium site always look like paintings to me. I don't know what the heck they do to the photos.

 

[Finepics3]

The reason there is a recess with the cannon pinion has nothing to do with the pinion itself and with reps that don't have a running seconds you don't even need to change them - it is because the tube on the back of the minute hand is twice the length to compensate for the shorter cannon pin in models that have a running seconds so that the hands have enough height over the dial to clear the sub second hand. All that is needed on a 201 is to file down the minute hand tube to .44mm - they will then sit flush with the cannon pin and no more recess.

Here's mine with thick crown and CG and dial done the same way as Enzo (a long time ago!!)

 

[Cucumber_Jones]

Nice CG FP.

Enzo actualy did my dial many months ago. I F'd up the install so he had to fix the dial for me.

Your looks great mark - ours should get together sometime!

 

[Finepics3]

Oh dear I keep having a go at old Enzo - I don't mean to it's just that sometimes I feel that there are too many noobs around who shout out wow and amazing to stuff that's already been done a long time ago.

Anyway a lot of you might not have seen this thread on the RWG regarding CG's for the 5218's and H series - take a look:

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=14488

 

[hooligan]

Oh dear I keep having a go at old Enzo - I don't mean to it's just that sometimes I feel that there are too many noobs around who shout out wow and amazing to stuff that's already been done a long time ago.

Anyway a lot of you might not have seen this thread on the RWG regarding CG's for the 5218's and H series - take a look:

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=14488

I don't remember anyone in this thread claiming that this was the first time anything like this had been done. Perhaps I just missed it?

At any rate, thanks for the link! I don't get over to RWG much and I'll certainly be in as I now need to start a 5218 project like yours and C_J's.

Cheers to you for that.

 

[Finepics3]

Enzo - my apologies - your work is of the highest order and I was certainly not criticising it. Also I was not suggesting that the cannon pinion should not be changed - I was only pointing out that the recess is caused by the hand tube length regardless if the cannon pin is short or not. Of course it's better to change it (as I have done on all mine and you can see mine has the flat top too!!) but some people might find it aesthetically pleasing to have a quick and cheap fix especially when sometimes it takes 2-3 months for stocks of pins to come from ETA.

 

[Cucumber_Jones]

Ok boys - we are all friends here... Now lets get back to how sweet my wacth looks!!

 

[bigbadbrad]

Ok boys - we are all friends here... Now lets get back to how sweet my wacth looks!!

Yeah - it rocks, it's my fav 201A rep - you lucky dog you! As Borat would say in his inimitible style, "it's verrry niiiice, ... I theenk eef I hef waaan, I make plenty sexy time weeth girl and have sexy explosion on ..." [I'll leave out the last bit - go see the film].

On the 210a - I'm striving towards one that is only 90% as good - and with that I'll be happy!

 

[bigbadbrad]

5218 case finish

Here is a GEN that sold in 2004 for USD$12,305.00 ... look at the CG and crown vs the REP of CJs, I think the REP looks adjusted better!

ANOTHER tiny detail on the GEN, note the ends of the hands, the swords are dulled or rounded off ...

Good detail: it also looks as if the 316L has some blasting - but other pics of gens I have seen show a normal SS finish. Is this just an artifact of this photo?

 

[Cucumber_Jones]

I think it is the photo. These photos are always odd.

 

[bigbadbrad]

I think it is the photo. These photos are always odd.

That's what I suspected.

Probably some crazy Tuscan thinking he's Leonardo reincarnated w/ software as his 'brush'.

 

[hk45ca]

i like the fact you are not just trying to make it look the same, you are duplacating it and that is a very big difference. i love seeing this kind of workmanship and talent. killer work enzo.

cj, your watch is kick ass. i don't know how you could make it look any better.

marc