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Hi everyone,
With all this talk about how rep. watches are going to get scarcer and ETA parts going up in price and down in availability, I figured I'd try something a little different. Here's what can be done with Asian parts a little creativity, some tools and lots of time...
I am going on holiday at the end of the month and I wanted a watch that was not over the top, but yet stylish and elegant, the PAM 111 fits the bill perfectly.
This watch is completely 100% Asian from top to bottom, and is a combination of many different parts from different factories and even parts from older version movements, thus where the title of MUTT comes from.
So let me elaberate:
The case is an H-Fac. 111M case with an H-fac. modded CG. I modded the GG pin by shaving it down some and polishing it. I trill need to work on the inside corners a little mor to make them square, but it will do for now.
The Dial and hands are the Noob 111N super lumed version
The case back is Noob 111N
The movement is based on the Noob Platinum plated 6497-2 modded heavily using only Asian rep. parts, list of mods follow:
Asian upper shock system was filed to imitate the Incaboc Y system, once filed the brass came throughm so after it was filed to the proper dimensions, I beveled the top the completed the look by plating the entire thing with nickle platting. It's not perfect but it is close enough, it took me 3 tries to get it this close.
Asian gear train was brushed and gold plated to mimic the ETA brushed gear train.
Asian crown and ratchet wheels came off of an old style 6497 movement that I had lying around from DSN, They didn't have the big step bevel the new Noob and H fac. wheels have. I polished the teeth to a high luster to mimic the ETA polished wheels. Again, not perfect but very close.
I completed the look of the movement by adding the longer micrometric screw from an old H fac. low beat movement.
The rest is the untouched Noob 6497-2 that came with the 111N
And VUALA here it is, all Asian mixed bread mutt PAM 111N
To the pictures....
Thanks for looking....
With all this talk about how rep. watches are going to get scarcer and ETA parts going up in price and down in availability, I figured I'd try something a little different. Here's what can be done with Asian parts a little creativity, some tools and lots of time...
I am going on holiday at the end of the month and I wanted a watch that was not over the top, but yet stylish and elegant, the PAM 111 fits the bill perfectly.
This watch is completely 100% Asian from top to bottom, and is a combination of many different parts from different factories and even parts from older version movements, thus where the title of MUTT comes from.
So let me elaberate:
The case is an H-Fac. 111M case with an H-fac. modded CG. I modded the GG pin by shaving it down some and polishing it. I trill need to work on the inside corners a little mor to make them square, but it will do for now.
The Dial and hands are the Noob 111N super lumed version
The case back is Noob 111N
The movement is based on the Noob Platinum plated 6497-2 modded heavily using only Asian rep. parts, list of mods follow:
Asian upper shock system was filed to imitate the Incaboc Y system, once filed the brass came throughm so after it was filed to the proper dimensions, I beveled the top the completed the look by plating the entire thing with nickle platting. It's not perfect but it is close enough, it took me 3 tries to get it this close.
Asian gear train was brushed and gold plated to mimic the ETA brushed gear train.
Asian crown and ratchet wheels came off of an old style 6497 movement that I had lying around from DSN, They didn't have the big step bevel the new Noob and H fac. wheels have. I polished the teeth to a high luster to mimic the ETA polished wheels. Again, not perfect but very close.
I completed the look of the movement by adding the longer micrometric screw from an old H fac. low beat movement.
The rest is the untouched Noob 6497-2 that came with the 111N
And VUALA here it is, all Asian mixed bread mutt PAM 111N
To the pictures....
Thanks for looking....
