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Please forgive the poor quality snapshot, but it all came together. I am over the moon! Here's my first completed fordite-dialed watch: I'll provide a more complete write up, better ph

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For the past few months, I’ve been working on a custom dial project. I’m still not ready to show my first production examples, but the project has gotten to the point where I’m comfortable sharing my

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So, I've debated sharing the proof of concept picture below, as it's with an imperfect fordite dial slice and the fordite itself hadn't been polished. It's not even a particularly compelling cut of fo

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When I was making guitars, we would have (metal) knob tops and bridges (where there was space) engraved with either the script "M" or "Masterpiece" by a local place in the maul. I think it was called "things remembered" and they engraved all sorts of stuff, mainly stuff they sold. Sometimes they'd give me crap, but usually they did it no problem.

Just bring the case back only and you could engrave something on the inside and the outside, if you wanted.

I also have a source for engraving between the lugs, similar to how Rolex and Tudor did it (before going to the ugly Rehaut engraving). PM me if you are interested in that. 

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4 hours ago, Tudor said:

by a local place in the maul. I think it was called "things remembered"

Things Remembered is a company that has or perhaps had stores located in malls. Their website still indicates they have stores but all the ones in my location have disappeared. as you can see from the link below they still have an online presence.

But they're not the only people that do engraving just do a search online there's lots of other companies including companies in the malls that do engraving.

https://www.thingsremembered.com/

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