A change around is coming

I have that urge to alter the appearance of a couple of watches again , unfortunately I am unable to do the changes now as I have 5 grandkids running riot around the house and garden.

Hopefully later today I will have peace and quiet in the house and will crack on with the alterations . Photos to follow.

SeikoJohn wrote:I have that urge to alter the appearance of a couple of watches again , unfortunately I am unable to do the changes now as I have 5 grandkids running riot around the house and garden.

Hopefully later today I will have peace and quiet in the house and will crack on with the alterations . Photos to follow.

what dya mean photos to follow? we dont want to see your grandchildren

I got thinking earlier that I own 3 Seiko 007's but all 3 had been modded so I did not actually own an original 007 ...... Well I do now

Before



After



Feels good knowing I have it back to it's original status

but now what to do with the Yellow Sumo dial ??

Simple answer really I put it into my Monster as I was not happy with the Seiko 5 dial I had in it







I also removed the rubber strap and replaced it for a 20mm Bracelet that arrived this morning from China , really great quality so good in fact I bought 3

The Sumo Monster is a perfect summer watch with the nice yellow dial .

Thanks for looking

Mmmm custard

both looking good and i agree a standard 007 is a must

I just was not sure about a Sumo dial in a Monster but I like it so it is staying

I take my proverbial hat of to you John, for tackling these modifications. I know what would happen if I tried.

Both watches look great and that yellow dial works really well in the Monster. I pondered whether the orange squiggle sweep second hand would have added another splash of colour but think the choices you made were better for that watch.

Love the original on the leather, very nice, in real life what does the yellow look like, in some photos it looks lemony and on others it goes a shade darker ?

Robti wrote:Love the original on the leather, very nice, in real life what does the yellow look like, in some photos it looks lemony and on others it goes a shade darker ?

The dial can be a little hard to photograph but to my eye it looks like what I would call canary yellow.
This is a better photo I found from the web

finding I had a little free time on my hands today so out came the spares box ... The yellow Sumo is no more but now replaced with the black / green dial , no date window so I was able to rotate the whole watch 180 degrees making the crown at 10 rather than 4



I kind of like it , maybe 8/10

I like it too John, very striking looking specially with the green sweep second hand.

No doubt if you have any doubts about it, it will be reversed back to yellow.

I am always impressed by these mods specially with the knowledge and confidence needed to be able to do them.

Cheers David , I enjoy modding watches I just wish I had the confidence to progress to the movement , I would really like to learn the skill to be able to swrvice my own watches one day.

Well what you are doing now John is impressive to me.

It used to be said that if you were wanting to begin working on a movement to start with a pocket watch. There’s the same mainspring, gears, escapement etc etc but all the component parts are much bigger to both see and work with.

Still a bit daunting though using a non working movement would help alleviate any worry if it couldn’t be put back together again.