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Always plenty to choose from on the bay...

Sub style case (complete) that accepts the Seiko movement is like $35.00 as an example.

And you can get aftermarket crown tubes and unbranded crowns for Rolex for very little (7030 tube and 703 or 704 crown), and they will provide a good seal at the crown for you.

What you would need to determine is the stem height of the movements you want to use and cross that with the ubiquitous 2824 for example, or other "popular" movements, and see what will work. Making the movement ring is easy enough, if needed but stem height can be tricky unless you can get taller cannon pinions and hour wheels etc. to compensate for raising the dial off the movement.

Unfortunately a lot of the vintage/NOS cases that are not from major "makers" are generally brass, or worse, with chrome plating. Solid stainless cases that are vintage are not easy to find for cheap money. 

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That would probably go well into a Datejust style case. Does it have a date complication?

You would probably need to make up a movement spacer ring- what is the movement size/diameter?

15xx movement is 28.5mm diameter and (overall) height of 5.75mm for the no-date to 7.03mm for the day-date 1556

 

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Wow. 30.8 is a big'un. Casing diameter of the 3135 is 28.1 (movement listed as 28.5mm as the 15xx) so a "sub" case would have to be opened up nearly 3mm to fit. There should be enough meat there but I think the caseback threads will be gone...

Perhaps a Panerai (style) case? Of a Fleiger case for the Unitas 6498 (which is 36.6mm so you'd need a ring and custom dial) https://helenarou.com/43mm-laco-luftwaffe-fliegeruhr-watch-case-4-hamilton-434917921923945.html

Otherwise you'd have to wait for the right original case to come along.

 

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