Omega x Swatch Moonwatch upgrades - Tutorial

[restandrelaxation]

All reps, I’ll have to check if the seller is still around as it was a while back. I got one and it was amazing and may have gone overboard buying all possible combinations

Brilliant, if you can find the seller I'm going overboard too.

 

[xanadux]

so...I tried to make the mod and it was a partial success!!!Everything ok, thanks to this post "tutorial", but I lost 6 subdial hand trying to re put it on place!!! on aliexpress I couldn't find the right set of hands, can I use that ones for VK63 movement? or... anybody has spare white little hands?

 

[garnier]

Is there any version with same swiss movement than the genuine? Or not possible?

 

[Pinion Minion]

Is there any version with same swiss movement than the genuine? Or not possible?

There is not

 

[Pinion Minion]

so...I tried to make the mod and it was a partial success!!!Everything ok, thanks to this post "tutorial", but I lost 6 subdial hand trying to re put it on place!!! on aliexpress I couldn't find the right set of hands, can I use that ones for VK63 movement? or... anybody has spare white little hands?

You just need a 0.2mm small sub hand

 

[Pinion Minion]

You just need a 0.2mm small sub hand

0.2 mm is the hand hole size

 

[garaged]

New to disassembling watches this far. Please advise.

I took apart a dhgate moonswatch rep and this is what I see. It looks very different to whatever is shown in the pictures here with the gear to remove circled in red. Please help identify what I need to do next to get to the right gear to remove.

 

[Pinion Minion]

Unfortunately you removed the back side of the movement. You need to remove the dial side- the one with the date wheel.

If you can't get it back together- just order another movement.

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[Pinion Minion]

Reread this thread carefully- there are great photos of the process.

Don't be afraid to ask questions before moving forward

 

[garaged]

Ah damn, that's why. Oh well, I guess I'll need to order another movement then and try. I'm wondering if it's easier to do what this guy did instead of the proper removal method.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaTime/comments/vudqfp

 

[restandrelaxation]

Ah damn, that's why. Oh well, I guess I'll need to order another movement then and try. I'm wondering if it's easier to do what this guy did instead of the proper removal method.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaTime/comments/vudqfp

I'd say it could possibly be easier, I can't comment on how it would look.

 

[Vric]

Thanks for this thread. Just did mine.

The small hands are quite bad quality tough. Boy I lost of time setting them back and I broke a pinion (even if I use a presto tool for it!)
The movement part was the easy part : )

 

[Pinion Minion]

Thanks for this thread. Just did mine.

The small hands are quite bad quality tough. Boy I lost of time setting them back and I broke a pinion (even if I use a presto tool for it!)
The movement part was the easy part : )

They are a pain.

Putting the moment at eye level- like on a shoebox - helps tremendously getting those little guys on properly.

 

[garaged]

I'd say it could possibly be easier, I can't comment on how it would look.

Given how close the small hand sits to the subdial anyway, wouldn't it look just like the dial on the left if it was glued since it's not a big recess? While not super close up, that link does have some pics after the mod was done.

I don't have any of those tools that will help me put hands back on, so I'm thinking I'll try that method instead of removing all the hands and going after the gear and then having to put them all back again.

I'll admit I've never even popped a whole movement out of a watch case until this one.

 

[xanadux]

New updated versions have different back case, harder to take apart but maybe more waterproof!

 

[garaged]

New updated versions have different back case, harder to take apart but maybe more waterproof!

Definitely harder to take apart. Kinda have to wrench from the inside of the fake battery cover.

That being said, they still seem very fragile. Second one I got (blue / neptune) had its crown and half the stem fall out (and can't be reattached) while I was trying to adjust the time. Didn't even get to taking it apart. Now the watch keeps ticking, but the time can't be adjusted and the crown can't be trusted to stay in.

I don't know how these can be this shit. If they are indeed all this fragile, perhaps it's better off living with the subdial the way they are.

 

[Hec]

@Geonor

Forgive me for returning to this old topic.

Any advice on how to put the hands on the subdials? I almost went crazy.

Thanks

 

[Karbon74]

use rodico to position, not tweezers

also there is a way to move the needle, using the pushers (i don't remember how but it's somewhere in the thread)

 

[Geonor]

@Geonor

Forgive me for returning to this old topic.

Any advice on how to put the hands on the subdials? I almost went crazy.

Thanks

First make sure the pins are still there and you haven't bent them or messed them up when placing back the top cover/bridge or the dial.

As for placing the subdial hands I think I just used regular plastic tweezers and a pen style hand presser but you might have better luck with rolling out some rodico to a thin sausage shape and using that to position the hand.

 

[Geonor]

use rodico to position, not tweezers

also there is a way to move the needle, using the pushers (i don't remember how but it's somewhere in the thread)

The way to move the hands when they are positioned is to pull the crown to the time setting position and use the pushers to advance them. Top pusher to move the main chrono seconds hand and bottom pusher to move the chrono minutes hand. Hold to advance quickly, click to move slowly.