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As part of my watchmaking journey I decided to replace some bezels on a watch that bezels are very hard to come by. I was able to pick up a donor watch with a bezel that I am taking measurements from. I am slowly learning fusion 360 and printing my prototypes. Once I have a working prototype I will manufacture them from either titanium or aluminum. This is where I am now on these orient dive watches. 

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Update: I have manufactured a trial bezel from ceramic. It has a nice friction fit but loses the fit when a spacer ring is used between the watch body and bezel. This needs to be adjusted. I still need to add the coin edge and other markings but I am getting closer and closer. Here are a few pics of this process. The first picture shows the ceramic bezel in it's green state before removing from the workpiece and an 8+hour sintering cycle. Notice how much this ceramic shrinks from green state to final state. Original bezel can be seen sitting inside the green state ceramic one. 

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4 hours ago, Kappa505 said:

Update: I have manufactured a trial bezel from ceramic. It has a nice friction fit but loses the fit when a spacer ring is used between the watch body and bezel. This needs to be adjusted. I still need to add the coin edge and other markings but I am getting closer and closer. Here are a few pics of this process. The first picture shows the ceramic bezel in it's green state before removing from the workpiece and an 8+hour sintering cycle. Notice how much this ceramic shrinks from green state to final state. Original bezel can be seen sitting inside the green state ceramic one. 

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Now thats pretty cool. Keen to see the edging and marking up.

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On 11/2/2022 at 5:16 PM, Kappa505 said:

Update: I have manufactured a trial bezel from ceramic. It has a nice friction fit but loses the fit when a spacer ring is used between the watch body and bezel. This needs to be adjusted. I still need to add the coin edge and other markings but I am getting closer and closer. Here are a few pics of this process. The first picture shows the ceramic bezel in it's green state before removing from the workpiece and an 8+hour sintering cycle. Notice how much this ceramic shrinks from green state to final state. Original bezel can be seen sitting inside the green state ceramic one. 

that looks great. I am new to the "watch scene" but would like to design and make some watch components myself. I work in the machine building industry and have access to several CNC machines. Share your project. Maybe I can be helpful to you.

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On 10/17/2022 at 2:52 AM, Kappa505 said:

finding an online cnc lathe company that wants to do these id difficult. No one wants to just make a few units. I have a few more options that I am looking into

Maybe there's a facility like Munich's Makerspace in your area, where you can rent time on a machine?

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