“mechanising” a quartz watch
This was one of my failed projects back in 2020! I tried to replace a quartz movement of this fake Olivia Burton watch to transform it into a mechanical watch for my girlfriend.
At the time I was still a dental student and I had access to the dental labs with rotary handpieces, this helped me bur the interior of the case to set a thicker mechanical hand wound movement in!
The raised beetle motif on the dial proved too challenging to place hands on the movement. I had to carefully bend the watch hands at 90 degree angles to try to make clearance for the hands to move across the raised beetle motif.
I never completed this project; nevertheless it was a good experience and good training for my manual dexterity :)
here’s to future successful mods
I sometimes build watches when I’m free :) Not a professional, just a regular guy documenting his learning journey!
Why in the Kentucky Fried F*#k would you even try this?
Why in the Kentucky Fried F*#k would you even try this?
Aww man it seems like you’re throwing quite a bit of shade on my projects! im really just doing this for fun mate. No hard feelings, but I’m sorry you feel this way! 😔
I worry about taking a case back off. You dive right into the deep end of the pool.
I raise a glass to the vision and the effort.
I worry about taking a case back off. You dive right into the deep end of the pool.
I raise a glass to the vision and the effort.
Thank you for your encouragement :) it was a very humbling learning experience for me haha
I'm sort of amazed at someone with the capacity to do this while not recognizing the additional challenge of a raised dial motif like that.
I'd suspect that after a couple dozen attempts at massaging the requisite bends into the hands that one would meet either success or irredeemable disaster.
I'm sort of amazed at someone with the capacity to do this while not recognizing the additional challenge of a raised dial motif like that.
I'd suspect that after a couple dozen attempts at massaging the requisite bends into the hands that one would meet either success or irredeemable disaster.
You’re right! I must have gone through a few hand sets before surrendering to this project. It was a humbling experience but it also taught me a lot about how to use my instruments. Again, I have no professional training, I’m just a regular guy trying out small projects and learning what I can and cannot do. Maybe one day I’ll hope to reach a stage where I may be able to salvage this!
You’re right! I must have gone through a few hand sets before surrendering to this project. It was a humbling experience but it also taught me a lot about how to use my instruments. Again, I have no professional training, I’m just a regular guy trying out small projects and learning what I can and cannot do. Maybe one day I’ll hope to reach a stage where I may be able to salvage this!
Exactly. This is a delayed project, not a failed one