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After making a couple prototypes, I have the hang of making these enough to produce a run of them.
Several points:
They will only work with night watch's bezel assembly for now
In order to speed the process and make sure orders are filled correctly I need the crystal from you that comes with the bezel. This ensures a couple of things, mostly proper fit.

The bezels will be as an exact copy of the original as I can make them, they will stay on the watch and click at 5 min intervals. While making tiny spring indents is very difficult these will be fitted with aluminum pins that serve the same function, they will function very close and can be tightened up when needed, and are not used to hold the bezel on.
the 12 O'clock dot will be one of two options, a lume filled mostly flat index or a raised plexi cup then filled with lume.
im working on picking up a cnc mill to make these a bit faster, making them one at a time is very consuming, and costing 200+
making them in production where i can leave the machines set up to do each step should bring the price down to 125-150 each.

We're getting there, still have some sorting to do to get the markers all the same.



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Hey guys, a little update, i am back in the shop full time now, i have a bit of catching up to do!
These have so many different operations for each piece that i am doing them in runs. it takes a bit of time to set up the lathe and milling machine for each step. So each step gets done to all of them at one time. For instance there are seven different angles and radius just on the inside. So while the angles are set for the first all the bezels get cut, lathe set up for the second all cut etc. same with the lathe. I have tried my best to come up with a way to have them done in a quicker manner and short of having 5 thousand made by injection mold and looking like a crappy plexi dial insert, this is it.

I know some of you have just written this off but fear not they are well on the way! Again my sincere apologies for the delay, and thank you for your patience!





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Any update on this project?

Have sent 2 Plexis when the project started and no feed back since then.

Hey guys, thanks for hanging in there, we're on the home stretch now!



Hopefully the pips will go fast


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Good to see this project in motion.

nice!

very nice, I will take one or two if them ready.

I am very happy

Thanks for the great job! I see, it's hard work!

are there any news if the bezels?