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23 March 2017, 10:39 AM | #1 |
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1680 Restoration from LAWW
Just got these pics from Los Angela Watch Works, letting me know my 1680 is on its way home. They did a case restoration and swapped in a 25/39 profiled to a superdome. Will have more pics tomorrow once it's back on my wrist, but wanted to share these with someone!
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Very nice!
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Very nice!
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23 March 2017, 11:53 AM | #4 |
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Beautiful work & curious what's an average that a restoration can cost .
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Beautiful work. Watch looks sharp.
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That looks awesome! And perfect timing as well with cyclopes being added and removed on certain models. . .
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23 March 2017, 02:15 PM | #8 |
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Looks great! Any before pics?
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23 March 2017, 09:06 PM | #9 |
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1680 Restoration from LAWW
Any excellent question! Should have thought of that.
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23 March 2017, 10:08 PM | #10 |
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Good case work - did they add metal/laser weld? The edges of the case where the lug-holes are, are sharp, whereas before they were [typically] scooped out from polishing.
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So, I'm not sure. I know their official policy, and that of other restoration shops, is that they don't do laser welding on overpolished lugs. That said, I'm not sure how else you achieve that kind of change. On a related note, my assumption has been that shops don't offer laser welding/adding metal so that people aren't using them to take polished watches and then sell them as unpolished/NOS. Not sure if this is correct or not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Looks nice!
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24 March 2017, 05:25 AM | #15 |
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Back home! As it turns out, their spring bars are in fact shorter-pronged than the ones I had in it. Theirs may be closer to OEM specs, as I got mine aftermarket. If I need to replace these I may try and get them from LAWW, because it does improve the look quite a bit.
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Looks amazing!
These guys really can bring a watch back to life... Congratulations on the re-birth of your 1680
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Watch this intense video.
https://youtu.be/YMuWrI-sCj8 This video I believe is from the Rolex teaching grounds in Pennsylvania. No need to laser weld if you know how to do it properly, you just move metal from one part of the watch to another. Alot of people or watchmakers are very inexperienced in polishing and brushing watches. |
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Very nice work. I'm thinking of sending mine to them or to ABC. Just one question, why they do not refinished the bezel too?
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I'm sure they would if asked. It's not a standard part of their vintage case restoration, based on my experiences at LAWW anyway.
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Really interesting
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The case of the watch is stripped down bare and is actually mounted in a stationary mount and the distance and angle that the case meets the plates is controlled by dials that move the case closer to the spinning plates and away.. it is not done by hand and very little case material is being removed. It's how you straighten poorly polished cases. In some cases, laser weld can be added to a thin case and then it can be re cut. Here is the style of machine used to give you the result you see from Rolex,abc,laww etc... they are more like machinists than polishers.. |
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So, basically a CNC operation?
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Not sure exactly how Beau does it but here's a look at some of the gear used.
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Does anyone know if the parts (crystals, crowns, tubes, etc.) used for replacement at LAWW and ABC are new and original from Rolex or do they use aftermaket or used parts?
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Great work by LAWW. I love the superdome, too!
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30 March 2017, 05:12 PM | #28 |
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Nice work, looks great
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Every time they've sourced parts for me they're always original Rolex, both LAWW and ABC. Once I tracked down an aftermarket superdome crystal for my old 1665 DRSD that ABC installed for me (bad idea on my part that was later remedied). However, if you specify you want only original Rolex parts, they'd do that, of course.
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Wow, that's just amazing! How in the heck did they make those lug holes so sharp seeing that they were somewhat "bowled" is magical!
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