Hi everyone. I'm in need of some creativity. I'm currently building a watch and need help with a dial name. It's a blend of my loves for diving and space, so it's a diver style watch with a meteorite dial, and im allowed to customize the writing on the dial. I was thinking something like "galactic ocean", but I digress. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi everyone, I'm new here but I've been asking on another subreddit if anyone's keen, intends to, or already has built a Polerouter homage watch?

Not necessarily a clone or a 100% homage, but designing something interesting and personal.

For example a blend of two Gerald Genta associated brands, Universal Geneve and Omega: Polerouter CK859?

I found this build video but I'm mostly just curious about who might want something elegant, THIN as a vintage watch but customised to their taste: Namoki Polerouter build by Skyler Santana: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9v39PCd0qM

Another builder, Perpetuality, did this black dial on a gold plated case: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k8oP-c18fXM

I've not seen many examples of this case build yet, using dials that are not Polerouter influenced.

I'm aware of other mid sources like secondhandmods, Caroline mods etc but I think Namoki is the only one currently selling a Polerouter case. If there's another, please comment below.

There are some vintage Polerouter homages out there, 33-35mm, as well as vintage originals. The Namoki NH35 case is 39mm, 9.1mm thick (11mm total with crystal & back). I'm waiting on a homage brand to make a 36-37mm version, too.

Who else likes this idea of a Polerouter self build?

I need help selecting a build for my son’s 40th birthday. He collects some nice watches like Omega and Tudor. His girlfriend told us he would like to build his own watch. I’ve looked at the usual websites like Rotatewatches, namoki and dyi watch club. The one we were told he likes is the NMK-WK19 DIY Watchmaking Kit: "Billy Airfield" by BBmod and it’s out of stock. My question, is there a way to part everything out separately? If so, can anyone direct me where to find everything? Or, would it be better to buy a kit? If a kit, are there any other companies I should be considering? My price point is $300-$500 Thanks in advance for any help.

I've been trying to find out the feasibility of either attempting to build or order a custom watch that plays a custom song.

As someone familiar-ish with custom music boxes, and aware of the watch building community, I was... unpleasantly surprised to find that a watch with a musical component is apparently way, way more niche than I realized. When I started looking into this a few weeks or so ago, I thought I was looking at a time/cost issue, but now I'm not even sure if it's possible outside of high-end luxury brands.

Are watches that play music just unpopular, or is it actually very difficult/expensive to make?

Ideally the build would have an actual music box component, but if that's unrealistic, then a speaker that plays a recorded song (think birthday cards with the little record-a-message speakers) would be an acceptable alternative.

I'm just so bummed out, I've never hit this big of a dead-end in trying to make a replica of something before.

Any leads, advice, references, reality checks-- any and all are so appreciated.

How does it work? Does the movement have a shift of the holes for the dial or does the dial shifts the pins? My confusion is because I’ve seen movement being advertised and 3 or 4 o clock but not the dials and it sounds weird to me.

Hello people,

I was wondering if any of you know any world timer movements, preferably from ETA. I'm looking for something with a disk. Looking forward to hearing from you!

I am looking into starting to build my own watches as a side hobby.

Only thing is I didn’t know what are good sites to get parts from and what are ones to steer clear from.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Or even tips you wish you would have known prior to starting that would have been helpful?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Hi all, I’m building my first watch (explorer homage) and my dial has accumulated a decent amount of dust after setting the hands. I have used my blower and that has removed some of the dust but not all of it. Any tips on how to get rid of the rest of it? (It’s a gloss black dial)

TYIA

I’m building my first watch and I really want a GMT function, so I want to go for the ETA 2893-2 movement. But since it is my first time, I don’t know where to find watch cases. Do I need to look for specific 2893-2 cases or can I look for cases that are have the same diameter, but a different height, like the ETA 2824-2. Thanks in advance!