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Looking good @manodeoro!

Cleaning day today

Cleaning day today

Dj57 great photos

That looks beautiful @dj57! Do you prefer the old dial or the new one with the “05”?

Hypnogagia wrote:That looks beautiful [mention]dj57[/mention]! Do you prefer the old dial or the new one with the “05”?

The new because it all about symmetry. The same is with the Rolex submariner, I like the “no date” more.

Sorry my above answer has been uploaded twice.

dj57 wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2023, 12:10 am

Hypnogagia wrote:That looks beautiful @dj57! Do you prefer the old dial or the new one with the “05”?

The new because it all about symmetry. The same is with the Rolex submariner, I like the “no date” more.

I like the symmetry with the 05 as well, but there is something about the design of the lone 5 that is cool. It’s a little visual nudge that gives me all sorts of ideas for different dial designs. I’m torn between the date and no date on the Sub. Before I got into building I wanted a date on all of my watches, but the ease of use and visual simplicity of no date is really nice.

A few weeks ago I mentioned some DIY methods how to replace/renew/fix dials feet:

* have the dial repaired by a watchmaker
* fix the dial with glue dots on the movement
* buy a cheap thin dial with the feet in the right place, sand it down a bit and then use it as a backplate
* or the variant with this tool which I bought from AliE



The day before yesterday while experimenting with dials, the following method came to my mind. All you have to do is buy feet and 3mm sticky dots. No extra tools. This method works also for plastic dials.

See below:








So, you don’t have to buy any tool, you don’t have to find the right feet positions on the dial and with this variant you don’t have to put the sticky dots on the movement.

What do you think ?

dj57 wrote: ↑September 5th, 2023, 4:07 am What do you think ?

It looks as a pretty easy and quick solution, but at the same time it increases the dial thickness on 0.2-0.3mm (feet heads + adhesive ). In some cases it's critical, especially working with movements with short CP/HW and stock hands.