She's grown to love watches, but this is more geared toward a Christmas/Birthday present and/or to keep her from wearing mine, lol.Careful. They get a taste for these things and they become like handbags - "You can never have too many".
On the subject of movements - Miyota do a good replacement for the ETA - I even think stem height measures up, etc.
I'm lucky - mine only loves Cartier - which is cheaper . . .relatively.
Yeah, a used gen Cartier sells for what a lot of high end reps sell for.
Miyota is 2.5Careful. They get a taste for these things and they become like handbags - "You can never have too many".
On the subject of movements - Miyota do a good replacement for the ETA - I even think stem height measures up, etc.
That's hand height?
I picked them up on Ebay, they weren't terribly expensive, but most of the ones I see there are missing bezels or case backs. I waited until I found a little stash of bezels before I jumped on cases.interested also to know where you got the cases.
a ladies watch, now that's a challenge I want
this is beautiful! what case set are you using? lugs look amazingMy “Explor-a du Jour-a”:
| Lignes Dimensions | 7.75 ‴ |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 17.5 mm |
| Height | 4.8 mm |
| Further Measures | Mounting Diameter (Dm): 17.2mm Stem height (T): 1.75mm |
| Power Reserve | 39 hours |
| Frequency | 28,800 vph |
| Jewels | 17 |
| Lift Angle | 53 degrees |
That's one I had custom built by our own 369 Mafia. It's mostly Raffles parts, with some case shaping and an upgraded bezel and crystal. The case set came out so nice I didn't want to age anything, including the dial and hands.
My wife's Tudor has an eta 2671 in it, we purchased it last year from Watches of Switzerland in Melbourne. The damned thing was almost -15 seconds a day and the wait time for Rolex service centre to adjust it was something like six weeks.
Take a gander at an older Tudor case set on ebay, Rolex printed on them and already set up for era 2671.I picked them up on Ebay, they weren't terribly expensive, but most of the ones I see there are missing bezels or case backs. I waited until I found a little stash of bezels before I jumped on cases.
Cases...one needs a caseback, so not really counting it in the mix, just have it on hand for when a case back pops up, another is a Tudor, and 22mm, rather than 26mm, so that might get an Explorer/Ranger dial and a quartz movement (and a deleted seconds hand):
Dials...one of the cases is super small, like 22mm, so I either have to find a dial or make one.
Bracelets:
Bezels...I hit the mother load with a lot of them:
Hands will come from ALIX, and I'll probably replace the crystals on all of them with Clarks or similar:
So basically, I just need a movement, and hoping the NH works, because the ETA is a pain in the ass, probably worse scaled down 25% in size, and quite a bit more expensive. As it is, I'm looking at roughly 200-300 each for these builds, which is a damn sight cheaper than a rep would cost, and they'll be mostly gen...pretty much everything you can see from the outside, at least.
Per his dial post, "Note that the 6538, 5512, 6542 and 1675 dials have been designed respecting the gen chapter ring 26mm diameter."
I got one of these for an OP 39 about 6 months ago, it’s working well so far, and the price was cheap.
