TUDOR 9401/0 BUILD

[redsubmaster]

hello to all,

I'd like to share with you few of my builds and i wanted to start with a classic one : the tudor snowflake 9401/0

I love tudors and i've built a few, for this one i experienced the bubble dial first time and i'm quite happy with the result

enought talking here are the specs and pictures

case: phong aged by me, with 1978 engravings
movement: phong 2824 with 2776 eta engravings on it
dial and hands are phong with beyeler engravings on back
insert is off the bay aged by me

 

[PAM1101]

very nice!

 

[kilowattore]

Excellent job on the dial, well done

 

[Vitto2]

Good job!
I like the workmanship on the case and bezel, that really is a 50 year old sports watch.

 

[Singapore9]

Lovely! Did a great job on the aging of the dial - very similar patina to my gens!

Did you go with the Phong bezel?

 

[vintagepassioneurope]

My compliments for the dial!
I like that effect!
If is it possible.... what technique did you use ?
how did you obtain the bubble?
Salt water?
Hairspray?
Transparent paint?
Solvent?
Oven?
I'm just curious? I do not want to steal the job

 

[Caril]

Very nice aged build, congratulations!
I'm also very curious about your experience and tips for ageing and achieving similar results, as I have gathered all the parts for a 9401 build, but just haven't found both some free time and some `courage´ to start ageing my parts

 

[redsubmaster]

for the bubble dial it was quite simple: i put the dial into a small ziped plastic bag along some water soaked toilet paper and i left it 1 week on top of my radiator

 

[redsubmaster]

then i had to relum it all and make a lume that looked like this, which was actually the hard part

 

[Plantagenet]

Lovely build. Thanks for sharing the tip for bubling the dial