What are you working on now?

[Nottingham]

Oops I did it again
This time a DUGENS pocket Watch conversion.

Nice and elegant!

[dpd3672]

This is my grail...my White Whale...and as far as I can tell, there's only one photo of the watch online to use as reference.

So it'll be a gen bubbleback case I've had stashed for a bit, a negative relief gilt dial with pad printed accents (most notably the red "EVEREST" writing), and some AliX hands until I can find better. NH38 movement so no worries about ghost date position.

The Pre-Explorer 6098 "Everest"
This is my grail...my White Whale...and as far as I can tell, there's only one photo of the watch online to use as reference.

So it'll be a gen bubbleback case I've had stashed for a bit, a negative relief gilt dial with pad printed accents, and some AliX hands until I can find better.

The Pre-Explorer 6098 (photo of gen):


This is the rough mock up at the moment, with a reject dial that I made to get an idea of the proportions. The dial still needs some tweaking of layout and fonts, but it's close (and the gen watch is so rare, I doubt anyone would call out a slight variation from the original):


Lots of work still to go, but I'm happy with the progress so far.

I like your White Whale !
I'll be curious to see which hands you'll find,
I've searched some but never found a similar design

His is the closest I could find. Not a close match, but close in spirit until I can find better.

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[Fizzzz]

@dpd3672
Best I have found are these ones

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Screenshot from Aliexpress, but sorry, no link

[NortON]

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[NortON]

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[tafari]

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very nice D

[NortON]

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very nice D

Thx K

[Denis]

[Denis]

NortON friend beautiful work

[NortON]

NortON friend beautiful work

Thx D!

the case is ready to go!

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