Replacing Glass In Rolex 1675

[Mark]

Well then there are these:

https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/watch-bezel-fitting-die-set?code=B30545

 

Or you could seek out a local engineering company that might be willing to cut one down for you in their lathe, or any local clock workshop should have one, they may help you.

[chriz74]

Maybe I can find someone with a lathe. Which diameter die did you modify?

[Geo]

Well then there are these:

https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/watch-bezel-fitting-die-set?code=B30545

 

Or you could seek out a local engineering company that might be willing to cut one down for you in their lathe, or any local clock workshop should have one, they may help you.

These are pretty good value Mark, thanks for the heads up! :-)

[Mark]

Maybe I can find someone with a lathe. Which diameter die did you modify?

 

I modified four different sizes as this is for other Rolex models too then I painted a green band around them so I could easily identify them in the box of dies I have. If you measure the outside diameter of the glass you are fitting and choose the die accordingly you will be fine. And, naturally, the depth needs to be at least the height of the glass.

[chriz74]

ok, thanks

[chriz74]

I just replaced the crystal of the bulova. 

 

[Geo]

It's looking good! :-)

[Mark]

Looks awesome :)

[bobm12]

Good Job! :)

[chriz74]

Thank you guys, here's the odissey I went through to get this job done: The watch came originally with a plain glass, (no magnifier) so I tried to track down a correct one with the magnifier (ref 714AWD) I first got one on ebay for 43$ shipped. After some time I decided to take the watch to a watchmaker to install it, probably the glass was ruined by using the kind of press in the picture and applying too much pressure, at first it was even inserted unevenly, it was taller on one side. Anyway the glass developed some kind of tiny cracks inside. I tried to polish it but it was not good anymore.

So I tracked down a new glass and this time I found one on ebay for 19,99$, took it to another watchmaker, this guy managed to crack the new one and reinsert the old one, he also told me that the one that cracked was the old one, that he cracked it while removing, infact he cracked the new one, I am sure as the old one had a tiny sign on the inside and it was still there. Then I got fed up about these people, tracked a new one which this time I paid 33,95$, bought some tools and replaced it by myself. I used a budget screw type press. 

 

[chriz74]

I forgot to mention that at first I took the second one to the same watchmaker that used that kind of press and he took the watch 3 months (no joke) without replacing anything, until I got fed up and took my watch back.

[bobm12]

Hi chriz,

 

That is my first press, does the job but it is wobbly and not very even. All that said, it has been my workhorse for quite sometimes. Now I got better ones and I can tell it makes a lot of a difference...no more cracked crystals and better/faster performance.

 

I'm glad you were able to fix the watch. Good job!

 

Cheers,

 

Bob

[chriz74]

Imagine that I used this one.

 

[bobm12]

That one would be my second and recently acquired one...but in the expensive kind quality (so not exactly it being a Witschi brand). I do swear by it though! :)