It was one of my ali inserts without any modification. It lookes nice with the big typo.
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Building a Tudor 9401/0 on the basis of a milk case
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3,54€ | Bezel Inserts Mouth Outer Diameter 36.5mm Inner Diameter 30.6mm
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Colour 12 in that link? Looks good for the money! £2.60 + £3.42 shipping for me!
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Pics when it lands please, fella! Could swap the pip out for a BiVintage or other acrylic!
rainyknight
World’s okayest watch fan
Hi, would you mind sharing dimensions of the movement ring? Looking to make my ownBuilding a movement ring
As ward1991 has already written, there is a movement ring from helenarou that makes it possible to mount an eta movement in a rolex case. It looks great and makes total sense. But since I didn't order an adapter ring and want to get further in the project, I built it myself. Luckily I have my lathe. By the way: the lathe is a lot of fun.
It looks very similar to the helenarou and does the job.
Caseback engraving
There is a nice discussion at the Engraving Thread about the caseback engraving. So that motivates me to do the open task of flatten the caseback and add the tudor typical engraving. Rolex used a curved caseback at the Submariner case, but Tudor is using a flat caseback. So the milk case came with the curved version and doesn't fit correct.
Flatten caseback
My initial idea was just using the lathe to remove material from the back. This started well but after a some 0,1mm the caseback gets too thin, and the cutting transform the material instead of removing. So I changed the process by flatten the caseback using a file. That is a time-consuming progress but ended nearly great. The caseback is now about 0,5 to 0,6 mm thin. So you are able to bend the caseback with your thumps. This is not the perfect way to flatten it.
Engraving
I used the saltwater etching method with a 9V battery. I described the process here at the Engraving Thread. The stencil for the engraving has a special font I can't find, so I have to rebuild it as a vector file.
There is a nice discussion at the Engraving Thread about the caseback engraving. So that motivates me to do the open task of flatten the caseback and add the tudor typical engraving. Rolex used a curved caseback at the Submariner case, but Tudor is using a flat caseback. So the milk case came with the curved version and doesn't fit correct.
Flatten caseback
My initial idea was just using the lathe to remove material from the back. This started well but after a some 0,1mm the caseback gets too thin, and the cutting transform the material instead of removing. So I changed the process by flatten the caseback using a file. That is a time-consuming progress but ended nearly great. The caseback is now about 0,5 to 0,6 mm thin. So you are able to bend the caseback with your thumps. This is not the perfect way to flatten it.
Engraving
I used the saltwater etching method with a 9V battery. I described the process here at the Engraving Thread. The stencil for the engraving has a special font I can't find, so I have to rebuild it as a vector file.