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wow thats a fabulous link. I brought a few bits & pieces & have done another hand in alloy to get the proportions rights (and some practice) but I'm a long way off producing something I'd be happy to put on my watch so far. I have an engraving machine that I'm using to cut the ruff hand out off which saves an immense amount of time, but once you get up close & personal under the eye glass its a whole new ball game!

Totally agree.

That`s one of the best looking watches I've seen. I would start building number two because number 1 will soon be sold. :thumbsu:

Camra have three festivals in Newcastle. Spring, Summer and Winter but various Wetherspoons have something going on somewhere all the time so I can spend my 50p CAMRA tokens. Our main real ale festival is at Northumbria Uni and is massive - hundreds of beers. I have to say that I have had some good ales at the festivals but also one that tasted a bit like Covonia Cough Medicine - 11.5% and really overhopped to get rid of the sweetness needed for fermenting the beer to get the high proofage. Oddly I usually feel ok the next day but the after effects if you can call them that, due to consumption of lots of yeasty beer give my wife great cause for complaint - I am sure we have all been there, usually without gas masks cos we are real ale supping men. Off to the states soon to pick up a shed load of accutron goodies (including a tester) from EBay.com that I have had sent to my son in LA, will keep up to date on my IPad hopefully. Cheers Chaps

So I finished this build...mostly! I'm thinking of it as a "proof of concept"... I decided not to do anything to the dial other than drill the markers at the hour marks, larger markers at the 12, 3, 6 and 9. This actually proved a problem after I remounted the dial and noticed that because the centerwheel pinion is off set from center, the minute and hour hands don't quite line up with the markers...not a huge deal though! Having said that, I think the dial looks Wonderful as it is! The simple dial/ markers really complements the "Busy-ness" of the skeleton movement. I also had to turn a back "Dial" to make up the difference of between the size of the movement and the size of the exhibition back crystal. This picture looks "deformed" but actually was taken at an angle to capture the best light. All in all, It will be something I do again now that I have an idea of what problems can and will arise when combining parts that were not designed to go together!