Got back into it today.
Considering my last outing with what I thought would be a slam dunk - change the date wheel - ended in a movement I’ll either need to rebuild or which is now my “scrap practice and spare parts movement”, today was a little better, fitting the dial to a new movement, and getting the hour hand and then the hand on and aligned.
And then it was time for the seconds hand.
What this picture does not convey is the two or so hours of pissing around trying to get the second hand on manually. I didn’t have any Rodico but I did have blu tack and I borrowed a YouTube trick… and made it happen!
What I’m not going to picture is the next phase of the afternoon during which neither a Raffles case back nor a VSF caseback would fit on a gen mid case, and the attempts to fit the acrylic and the engine turned bezel to the Raffles case which basically come down to, I don’t have a good enough tool or the correct tool for the task.
It suffices to say that this case I’ve got from Raffles - I believe it’s actually an Explorer case - does not want to play ball with the engine turned bezel. The Sternkruez crystal ended up with a nice circular etching in the centre from where my cheap, screw down crystal and bezel tool’s drive screw managed to get free of the plastic setting in which the watch was held, and scratch it up real good.
Next phase here - I’ll see if I can get a better press tool for the bezel and crystal, and now at least I have a practice crystal to go with a practice movement. For the gen 16030 case, I now have a gen case back coming.
Here are the two unfinished cases, mocking me.
Keep up the good work, it's a learning curve for all of us! 
