Welcome Noah, it’s always good to see more people with knowledge registering here. (tu)
As I just recently started this (great) new hobby, I must say honestly that I was not
familiar with your work. But boy oh boy, those watches sure look good and I must
admit that I am pretty jealous of your knowledge and skills. Great craftsmanship!
knowledge and skills can be learnt
I’m sure if you check some of my posts on D.I.Y around the net you can soon be building your own watches[/quote]
Will surely have a look at your posts, I’ve bought a SKX013 recently so I can fiddle around a bit. (tu)
Next step is buying some tools and bezel/dial/hands. Pretty tricky if one is not sure what to look for.
Thanks for the great link, I was looking at these myself.
Just for starters as I don’t want to invest too much $$ as long as I’m not sure that I will get ‘into’ it.
Here a a mod that a lot of suppliers have contributed to:
Dial: from Noah and relumed by me
Hands: from Yobokies (who is less a modder I think)
Bezel insert: from NOah, I drilled out the lume pip and insert an original Seiko lume pip
Bracelet: Stella
And after assembling a short while in my beadblasting cabinet …