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[Mod_It]

Greetings,

I'm interested in learning what kind of custom dial needs we have currently. So, if you are looking for a custom dial please post here and describe or link the dial you are looking for!

Remember to note which watch you are modding!

Thanks!

Chester.

[20DYNAMITE07]

Mod_It, on 05 February 2010 - 06:02 PM, said:

Greetings,

I'm interested in learning what kind of custom dial needs we have currently. So, if you are looking for a custom dial please post here and describe or link the dial you are looking for!

Remember to note which watch you are modding!

Thanks!

Chester.

I'm just now getting into the idea of modding my Orient's (a Mako and Mako XL / Hogrider) and think some of the following dial styles would look really good- Most of these are available for Seiko's already, but if they could be made to fit Orient's as well I think they would be good choices.





Or maybe these...

[Joshua]

Mod_It, on 05 February 2010 - 06:02 PM, said:

Greetings,

I'm interested in learning what kind of custom dial needs we have currently. So, if you are looking for a custom dial please post here and describe or link the dial you are looking for!

Remember to note which watch you are modding!

Thanks!

Chester.

I just purchased (currently enroute) an Orient Day/Date ( CEV0J003B ) from watches88.  I've been wanting a well made quality day/date style watch for a long time now. My original plan was to drop around $430 + on a Sandoz Singapore model.

But then I came across this Orient on watches88 - specs: 100m water resistant, Automatic, Sapphire crystal, and of course it's an Orient so the QC is likely going to exceed Sandoz (even the singapore version) and it was only $159 + $19.90 shipping.

Perfect right? Except one thing, it has zirconia indices. This is a huge no-no for me. But I just could not pass up the specs on this watch for the price. The only other day/date I could find with these specs is an Enicar at $500 plus shipping or the Sandoz singapore for not much less (though these watch do come with ETA movements, but I'm fine with orient's non-hacking lower bph). So I bought the watch.

Maybe the indices will look nice and it won't bother me... I don't know.

I'd much prefer to the mod the dial to silver line indices or silver or white roman numerals if possible. Otherwise perhaps just install a whole new dial.

I don't know if this is a realistic option for this watch or not.

If anyone could let me know I'd be most appreciative.

I'd also be interested in being know of a watch guy who might specialize in such things if anyone can recommend one.

Thanks very much.

(ps: No picture. I didn't ask permission to post pictures from watches88 or any of the other vendors that have this, but you can google image search CEV0J003B and you'll see it fast enough.)

[OldeCrow]

Joshua, on 05 July 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

I just purchased (currently enroute) an Orient Day/Date ( CEV0J003B ) from watches88. I've been wanting a well made quality day/date style watch for a long time now. My original plan was to drop around $430 + on a Sandoz Singapore model.

But then I came across this Orient on watches88 - specs: 100m water resistant, Automatic, Sapphire crystal, and of course it's an Orient so the QC is likely going to exceed Sandoz (even the singapore version) and it was only $159 + $19.90 shipping.

Perfect right? Except one thing, it has zirconia indices. This is a huge no-no for me. But I just could not pass up the specs on this watch for the price. The only other day/date I could find with these specs is an Enicar at $500 plus shipping or the Sandoz singapore for not much less (though these watch do come with ETA movements, but I'm fine with orient's non-hacking lower bph). So I bought the watch.

Maybe the indices will look nice and it won't bother me... I don't know.

I'd much prefer to the mod the dial to silver line indices or silver or white roman numerals if possible. Otherwise perhaps just install a whole new dial.

I don't know if this is a realistic option for this watch or not.

If anyone could let me know I'd be most appreciative.

I'd also be interested in being know of a watch guy who might specialize in such things if anyone can recommend one.

Thanks very much.

(ps: No picture. I didn't ask permission to post pictures from watches88 or any of the other vendors that have this, but you can google image search CEV0J003B and you'll see it fast enough.)

Honestly you would have been better off buying the watch you like and adding a sapphire to it, ofrei has a pretty complete stock of sapphire crystals now by size so you can add sapphire to just about any watch!

You won't be changing the indexes on the dial you have, it's just too much work, changing the whole dial out puts you back at "you should have bought the one you like" so learn to like the fake diamods! Nice watch regardless!

[Joshua]

OldeCrow, on 05 July 2011 - 06:48 PM, said:

Honestly you would have been better off buying the watch you like and adding a sapphire to it, ofrei has a pretty complete stock of sapphire crystals now by size so you can add sapphire to just about any watch!

You won't be changing the indexes on the dial you have, it's just too much work, changing the whole dial out puts you back at "you should have bought the one you like" so learn to like the fake diamods! Nice watch regardless!

I get the feeling I am going to have like those indices as is. Orient does have day/date another model with line indices, but it lacks a screwdown crown and is only 30m wr as opposed to 100 for the one I purchased.  

I guess I have to hope that the screw down crown and 100m wr is worth the zirconia indices.

Though someone recently suggested to me that the zircon indices were actually synthetic sapphire indices -- same material as the crystal. Kind of homage to the sapphire series that this watch is a part of.  however, I can't confirm that anywhere and it doesn't change what indices look like.

Oh well. life goes on. If I don't like it, my wife probably will.

[OldeCrow]

Joshua, on 05 July 2011 - 09:32 PM, said:

I get the feeling I am going to have like those indices as is. Orient does have day/date another model with line indices, but it lacks a screwdown crown and is only 30m wr as opposed to 100 for the one I purchased.

I guess I have to hope that the screw down crown and 100m wr is worth the zirconia indices.

Though someone recently suggested to me that the zircon indices were actually synthetic sapphire indices -- same material as the crystal. Kind of homage to the sapphire series that this watch is a part of. however, I can't confirm that anywhere and it doesn't change what indices look like.

Oh well. life goes on. If I don't like it, my wife probably will.

You can always by a day date model you like and swap the whole movement and dial into that sapphire case, all Oreints are the same so it's about a 60 second swap!

[Joshua]

OldeCrow, on 05 July 2011 - 09:40 PM, said:

You can always by a day date model you like and swap the whole movement and dial into that sapphire case, all Oreints are the same so it's about a 60 second swap!

That's good idea.

I'd have two then, but I could always think of someone to gift the second one to.

I've never done a movement swap before. Are there any tutorials on the process -- maybe with pictures? I'm fairly mechanically inclined; I fix firearms as a side job...

[OldeCrow]

Orients have a lever release like Seiko's, here is a picture showing the lever "exposed" (photo magic) you press on the green dot in the picture to release the stem so the movement will come out. You just have to press the crown/stem back in and it will snap past the keeper on it's own.

If you are quick and have a reasonably dust free work area you and can keep the cases face up to avoid getting dust on the inside of the glass you can do the swap pretty qiuickly and without much drama!

[Joshua]

Excellent. Thank you very much. This has been so very helpful.

OldeCrow, on 07 July 2011 - 02:10 AM, said:

Orients have a lever release like Seiko's, here is a picture showing the lever "exposed" (photo magic) you press on the green dot in the picture to release the stem so the movement will come out. You just have to press the crown/stem back in and it will snap past the keeper on it's own.

If you are quick and have a reasonably dust free work area you and can keep the cases face up to avoid getting dust on the inside of the glass you can do the swap pretty qiuickly and without much drama!