Well, this morning the call came that I had been looking forward to for such a long time:  "Ze vats ies ready"  (German for the watch is ready and bring a lot of cash")

I was busy working on one of my vintage cars, but before you could say TUDOR I was on my bike and negotiated the heavy Saturday morning traffic into downtown Cape Town to collect my watch.  Incredible how many tourists have already ascended onto our neck of the woods for the FIFA world cup.

Anyway, back to the sub.  Manfred proudly removed the watch from the winder it has been living on for the last few days.  He is still old school and likes to thoroughly check a watch before it goes out.  The final result blew me away.  Yes, I have already seen all the components, but somehow the sum total of the parts were more than I had expected:  a beautifully restored Tudor small rose sub 7928 with just the right amount of patina!  He assured me that the replacement movement was in excellent condition, and that in fact as far as he could see, he was the first watchmaker to service it!  WOW!  What a luck considering I bought it in good faith from a vandor in Denmark.

When I got home, the sub went straight onto the timing machine to check Manfred's claims.  I couldn't believe my eyes:  running spot on, with no errors whatsoever and a very healthy amplitude to boot.  To crown it all, it passed a 100m WR test!

Enough said.  Below are some Q&D's.

I'm a happy chappy!  I love it when a plan comes together!

On the timing machine:



In the weak fall sunshine you can see the nicely patinated dial









with a sibling, the 14060 Rolex ND





.......and the obligatory wrist shot!



Well, thanks for taking an interest in my little project.  Total cost to me was just under US$1K.  Well worth it for me.

Last edited on Sat Jun 5th, 2010 08:40 am by Graham