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Hypnogagia wrote:My builds are a little out there…

“Gotham Stratonaut”
47mm case
ETA 1035
Added second second, tachymeter scale, Westclox hands, skinny crown, hand sanded movement spacer sandwich, reshaped bezel, sapphire+yellow plexi+mineral cyclops+domed plexi. Single dome mineral crystal on the back
Dr. Phil strap with Aerojet service pin

Very singular buid! And beautiful movement !

Thanks for the kind words Nottingham!

Kkstraps wrote:

very nice watch, like the dial color

Mike08 wrote:

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looks nice, the case looks good

Hypnogagia wrote:My builds are a little out there…

“Gotham Stratonaut”
47mm case
ETA 1035
Added second second, tachymeter scale, Westclox hands, skinny crown, hand sanded movement spacer sandwich, reshaped bezel, sapphire+yellow plexi+mineral cyclops+domed plexi. Single dome mineral crystal on the back
Dr. Phil strap with Aerojet service pin

a. cool build

Hypnogagia wrote: ↑July 5th, 2023, 6:56 pm My builds are a little out there…

“Gotham Stratonaut”
47mm case
ETA 1035
Added second second, tachymeter scale, Westclox hands, skinny crown, hand sanded movement spacer sandwich, reshaped bezel, sapphire+yellow plexi+mineral cyclops+domed plexi. Single dome mineral crystal on the back
Dr. Phil strap with Aerojet service pin

COOL

Nottingham wrote: ↑July 5th, 2023, 2:42 pm

Great

Going through the backlog of pages on this thread is amazing, so many beautiful watches! You’re all making me feel much better about how much I’ve been hoarding and building the last few years.

Here’s a 1930’s Wyler Incaflex. The movement had been sitting naked in a dusty watchmaker’s drawer in Australia for who knows how long. Just needed a deep cleaning, rebuild and a new mainspring to get running. The dial was originally black and white, but many decades of exposure to the elements has done wonderful things. It was tough to get all of the corrosion off of the movement without affecting the mirror finish, but it matches the aging of the dial.

The case, buckle and strap are cheapies from EBay. Keeps reasonably good time (+/-1 minute per day). Also, reassembly of the movement blinded me a few times, I guess thats the reason mirror finishes aren’t more common.

tafari wrote: ↑July 7th, 2023, 5:01 am

Look at it when the time is ten past ten or ten to two and you will see an owl. Nice one!