@TheSociety ... would please give me some info (if you have some) about the Tudor C390 movement ?
I mean "price level" and "reliability".
I'm just on the first step for a "circa 1959 Tudor 7928" build and I wonder if I wont, at least for that watch, leave the "low budget" way and try to build something better.
I'll start with a Cartel case (highly reworked), a DIY Gilt dial (I'm working on the design), gen specs ... and then ????
I really think I could fit a C390 in a Cartel case and I've seen some of them, ticking and "keeping good time", for about $700.
So do you think it's too cheap to be good, or too expensive ... I really have no idea.
The good thing is that movement is based on a Fleurier ébauche, FEF 350, so it's possible to get "low budget" spare parts if needed (though the parts wont be branded).
Plus even if I start with a very low budget movement, a 2813, I can even reuse, for some time, the handset with a little broaching.
The idea is to build a watch that I will keep and that could be upgraded all along its life.
Now some pics ... Tudor 7928 ... C390 movement ... Fleurier FEF350