What are you working on now?

[Belkin12]

Some movements have dial feet holes with special recess. It solves the issues mentioned above.

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[Fizzzz]

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.

Same thought,
If have to use dial dots, I prefer to use minimum 6-8 pcs and stick on the main plate.

I have the machine as yours, but the center tip of the bit broke at first use, so it's not convenient to use now.
They are selling replacement bits, but it seems like most are way too fragile,
shame since it was a good idea...

[dj57]

How about make them thinner?

[Fizzzz]

How about make them thinner?

Not that much to gain IMHO...
you could also use expoxy glue instead of sticker dots...

[Hypnogagia]

I’ll often sand down the original dial and use it as the back plate to add a sandwich dial to. I need to try with the sticky dots and the dial feet, that’s a great idea. My cheat on a few dials has been to use Rodico. As long as it’s clean Rodico and the temperature doesn’t get over 100 it seems to work really well (far from best practice tho).

[dj57]

Like this …

[Hypnogagia]

If it’s something with an unusual pin arrangement it’s easiest to do that menthod and sand it enough to be the backplate of the sandwich.

I like to keep the dials & cases of the original watch when it’s a 6497/8, easy to swap out. Or if it’s a design that’s really unique then it’s worth it to add feet to a new dial. If it’s a pocket watch dial with Breguet numerals, well, it’s just sanding down one homage dial to make another

[manodeoro]

A few weeks ago I mentioned some DYI 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 ?

nice idea ... I may try it to stick dial feet on the right position ...
but I'll keep using my AE tool (same as yours) to create recesses on the dial plate to glue the dial feet without creating any additional thickness ...

[dj57]

Today I gave it a new try on a old hand set.

[norskguru88]

Custom sunburst chrono dials

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