PAM 233 Datewheel swap

[watchblog]

I've wanted to replace the white datewheel in my 233 since I bought it. I read that the datewheel from an ST2530 would fit into a PAM233. I took a chance and tore into my 233 to see if the swap would work.

Well... it worked. BTW, I took lots of pictures. Hopefully over the holiday I can post a tutorial on how to replace the datewheel (it was much harder than I expected)....

EDIT: here's a link to my tutorial: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=88961

Here are some pictures....

 

[hooligan]

Looks good, watchblog!

Does the GMT hand make a revolution once every 12 or 24 hrs?

 

[Rocketeer]

Its every 24hrs Hooli.

 

[alwayslate]

some vendors are offering the 233 with date wheel fixed...trouble is, none have the nice cannonpin fix as yours. How did you do it? Looks fabulous!

 

[watchblog]

To be honest, I didn't make any modifications to the canon pin. It came from Time4Direct that way. Do you think it looks alright? I was worried that it was still a little too sunken (but I'm no PAM expert).