Homage Forum

Be it a gen find, cheapie or build.....

Here is mine right now... $33 in so far. A watch built with left over parts.


Case and hands $20 off eBay, $6 for plexi, $7 for stem. The movement salvaged from another build, the strap and dial left overs.

Would love to see your favorite cheapie

OK, I'll play. This was a $54 VK microstepper from Dhgate. Came with silver hands and green glass distorted crystal. Faded the insert, painted the hands, relumed it vintage, and put a $5 SK HW plexi.

At the moment this... build? Seiko mod? pocket watch conversion?



Non working Seiko railroad pocket watch for 30 eur
+
case from Alpha for another 30 eur
+
strap, crown and some other parts for yet another 30 eur

It gets a lot of compliments. A bit noisy though.

Picked up this one for £70 on rwg about a week ago

Sent from my LYA-L09 using Tapatalk

Tanukjaju wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 12:05 pm Be it a gen find, cheapie or build.....

Here is mine right now... $33 in so far. A watch built with left over parts.


Case and hands $20 off eBay, $6 for plexi, $7 for stem. The movement salvaged from another build, the strap and dial left overs.

Would love to see your favorite cheapie

This is brilliant

spade_lt wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 1:24 pm At the moment this... build? Seiko mod? pocket watch conversion?



Non working Seiko railroad pocket watch for 30 eur
+
case from Alpha for another 30 eur
+
strap, crown and some other parts for yet another 30 eur

What size is that?!

Tanukjaju wrote: ↑April 30th, 2020, 8:18 am

spade_lt wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 1:24 pm At the moment this... build? Seiko mod? pocket watch conversion?



Non working Seiko railroad pocket watch for 30 eur
+
case from Alpha for another 30 eur
+
strap, crown and some other parts for yet another 30 eur

What size is that?!

46mm. It's this case: https://alpha-1993.com/collections/auto ... ic-watch-2.
At one time seller had the case sets - but now they seem to be sold out...

Not the same case but I see lots of these as an option on Ebay. They go alot of the time for the starting bid such as this one I bought and have waiting for my next build.

The polish is very good, a movement spacer, a crown, display back, and definitely a sapphire front crystal. They sell so cheap I have been considering a third one just to have.

My favorite watch under $100 is a hard choice because I have so many under $100 I love. Right now it is this marriage watch. An old Pilot pocket watch with a 6498, case from a Parnis I took apart, fit an onion crown and new stem, and currently on a bracelet I have had for years. Easily under $100 and it is so enjoyable that I have already bought what I need to build a 2nd marriage watch.


Sent from my SM-A102U using Tapatalk

jbglock wrote: ↑April 30th, 2020, 7:16 pm Not the same case but I see lots of these as an option on Ebay. They go alot of the time for the starting bid such as this one I bought and have waiting for my next build.

The polish is very good, a movement spacer, a crown, display back, and definitely a sapphire front crystal. They sell so cheap I have been considering a third one just to have.

My favorite watch under $100 is a hard choice because I have so many under $100 I love. Right now it is this marriage watch. An old Pilot pocket watch with a 6498, case from a Parnis I took apart, fit an onion crown and new stem, and currently on a bracelet I have had for years. Easily under $100 and it is so enjoyable that I have already bought what I need to build a 2nd marriage watch.


Sent from my SM-A102U using Tapatalk

That is a good job on the pilot case!