WRUW March 25, 2021

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Here is one I built with the gracious and expert help of our friend Henry...

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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:

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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:

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Many thanks to Hank, and to you for reading this far!
Brad

Wow...that's awesome! Great dial, and I love that caseback. Well done!



~Sherry.

[popoki nui]

i miss post this.. (very sorry ismy!)
what i wear today..doesn't look good on the eyes, but fit the wrist so much better than the original strap..



have a great day to all the great people here...

It looks just fine! And it's more comfortable for you as well, so it's all good. What is even better, is to see your posts, Iyonk. It isn't the same here without you.


~Sherry