Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

[JustinG]

These guys are bad for your wallet. But I will say, after buying/selling a few I have pretty much broke even.

I have been wanting to do a full mod on an SKX, pretty much gut a case and replace everything.

Well Lee won a drawing and got his hands on a SKX Japanese model. Fit and Finish are supposed to be better on those. With no real need for it he offered it up to me in a trade for a box of Front Point Camera/Screens/sensors I had yanked from our house.



With the base in hand, then came the rabbit hole of parts and waiting for them to arrive. Parts were ordered from all over the place. UK, China (Pre Corona), Spain, Poland, and throw in Texas and California. Not 100% sure how long I waited on parts to arrive, but the longest wait was on my Custom Case back. I could have kept some factory parts like the movement, the crown, crystal, day/date wheels etc. But I ended up going full bore on this one, new movement included. Nothing is left of the original watch but the case itself.



If it isn't obvious yet, my goal was to make a JMU themed mod. Even the crystal has a purple anti reflective coating.



A quick 7 day round trip to Rhode Island and the finished product came back in today.










Couldn't be happier.