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You posted your intro almost a half an hour ago and nobody's said hello back yet? Scandalous!

So, Hello and welcome! I have a lot of inexpensive watches too, lets me try lots of styles. Browse around the forum, post some pictures of the watches you'd like to work on, and I'm sure you'll get comments and suggestions!

Have Fun

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42 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

Welcome to the forum. Many on here collect watches, post some pictures of yours so we can have a look.

My daily driver, its nothing special but I can read it easily and I like it, could do with a new glass once I learn how to change one!

 

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15 hours ago, winchman said:

My daily driver, its nothing special but I can read it easily and I like it, could do with a new glass once I learn how to change one!

I am pretty sure Mark has covered changing the watch glass on his You Tube video instruction series if you want a flavour of what is required. However, special tools are needed for this, the case has to be emptied first and care has to be taken not to mark anything so temporary dustproof storage of the parts is required not to mention the press to put a glass in if it is the type that needs it.

I have to say it is do-able as I just tinker with old watch repairs and refurbs and have done it on a variety of watches including Seiko (but not yours) the heart does tend to stop as a glass one clicks into place, plastic are not so bad and surprisingly cheap to buy the replacement. 

You say you have a few watches so it may be worth picking another one to practise on before going onto a fave watch. You can then decide to take "baby steps" on a dissassembly and re-assembly (pics at all stages for reference points) and even change the watch glass.

Cheers,

Vic

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On 11/13/2016 at 10:09 PM, winchman said:

My daily driver, its nothing special but I can read it easily and I like it, could do with a new glass once I learn how to change one!

You can easily polish the glass without even removing it. Cost is 3 pounds diamond paste from aliexpress, 2 pound hard felt wheel from Cousins. Al-tough, a new generic glass cost 1 pound. 

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6 hours ago, jdm said:

You can easily polish the glass without even removing it. Cost is 3 pounds diamond paste from aliexpress, 2 pound hard felt wheel from Cousins. Al-tough, a new generic glass cost 1 pound. 

Thanks I do have a Buffing machine and have tried to polish it out but its quite a deep scratch. How do I measure the size of the glass?

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If it’s the Seiko in the photo, then you need to quote the numbers on the back of the case. If not, then measure from 12 down to 6 or 9 across to 3, if you have a vernier gauge use that, if not use whatever you have. If you can take the glass out measure the glass in the same way also the inside of the bezel.  

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Thanks I do have a Buffing machine and have tried to polish it out but its quite a deep scratch. How do I measure the size of the glass?
You need diamond paste of coa rse grit or 400 wet paper. Metal polishing won't do anything to hardlex glass. To measure a crystal you need to remove it, they go in step on 1 tenth of mm.
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