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Wow...that's awesome! Great dial, and I love that caseback. Well done!Originally Posted by watch carefully
Here is one I built with the gracious and expert help of our friend Henry...
The 1944 Hamilton 4992B movement powering this had previously been converted from 24- to 12-hour display, and sported a somewhat sad hand-painted custom dial. My vision for it was to create a custom dial, and Henry gamely volunteered to assist with design and printing.
We went thru several iterations over a handful of years (pretty low priority project, as you can imagine), and Henry even created bespoke hour numerals because nothing we found quite suited the vision.
Originally, these movements were cased in base metal cases that look like silver...mine had arrived in a gold-filled Mainliner RR-watch case. I wanted something more modern, so chose the Model 15 from Hamilton...also a RR case, but sleek and steel.
To show the movement, I obtained a second front bezel, which replaced the solid case back:
Some new blue hour and minute hands were added to the recipe and the ingredients were all sent off to a watchmaker here in Pennsylvania to create the stew.
It came back running like a chronometer:
Many thanks to Hank, and to you for reading this far!
Brad
~Sherry.
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