spboudart 0 Posted September 1, 2009 It's been quite while since I wanted to built myself a very personal watch! I'm a big fan of Francisco's tutos and that pushed me further in my idea. I wanted it to be Ti Pam based! (that's what I like) A while back I ordered a Seagull ST-36 from a guy in Germany (to replace an asian 6497 in on of my Pam), anyway the guy screw up in is order and sent me a nice PVD 6498. I kept the movement and he sent me the one I wanted for less than 25$. The idea then came to build a Pam dial with second at 6! I copied Pam blueprint and using Paint (that's the only thing I know how to use) obtained this: I then make a basic drawing of my vessel (I'm a master in the merchant marine), still using Paint and put the 2 drawings together using Word. I tried 2 different ship as I hadn't made my choice about having color or not! At that point you can pick up whatever image you want to personalize your watch and have a very unique model. Now I followed one of Francisco's tuto about placing decals on watches: Bought myself some LIQUID DECAL FILM and some DECAL PAPER. I printed my 2 drawing an the decal paper and applied a coating of liquid decal film and let the whole thing dry. If you've ever been on a cruise ship or just a ferry, you must have seen Safety signs eveerywhere to show you direction to lifeboat, etc... Anyway those sign are called IMO sign and are made of self-adhesive photoluminescent vinyl so that if you have a total power failure you can find what you're looking for in the dark! I had quite a few spare sign on board my vessel and took a piece of one to serve as support for my dial! I also bought some MICROSET and cut my decal to its dial shape: Now I'm ready to go: About 30 seconds in distilled water! Time to put some Microset on the support and to slide the deal onto it. I also had so MICROSOL so I applied a coating: This step is not mandatory as our support is flat. But, be careful if you decide to do it, the ink almost washed away (I use an Inkjet printer on Inkjet decal paper, don't know if the same thing would happen using the Laser stuff). Now I had in my spare part and old sandwich dial, I removed the upper part and sanded the lower one. I cut my newly done dial and placed it on my dial base: I then used my dremmel to make the dial holes: The following steps don't need any comment as I just put the watch together. Here's the final result: I didn't take a lume shot but will post one later one, but no need to say that it's very luminous. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Member X 91 Posted September 1, 2009 That's great, I can't wait to see a lume shot! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greg_r 81 Posted September 1, 2009 Thanks for the re-post! Great project - shows how straightforward it can be to do something really personal and interesting. Great work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spboudart 0 Posted September 1, 2009 Thanks for the re-post! Wasn't my idea! I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated if you'd repost that one about making the custom decalled PAM over here. That was very interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KBH 7 Posted September 1, 2009 The possibilities here are limitless. I sure wish I didn't sell my spare sandwich 183 dial for next to nothing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trailboss99 994 Posted September 1, 2009 Great work! Than answers my question. MED, Radio Opp and watch keeping qualified here BTW. Col. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spboudart 0 Posted September 1, 2009 Great work! Than answers my question.MED, Radio Opp and watch keeping qualified here BTW. Col. NICE! I'll take you on board whenever you're ready! But you'll to make the trip to FRANCE! Using my vessel it would take about 1 month at 12.5kts Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PatronSaintofChainsaws 1 Posted September 3, 2009 To make it look even better, you could try clear-coating the dial afterwards. I've had good luck with Testors Dullcote #1260, when applied liberally. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trailboss99 994 Posted September 5, 2009 Stickied. A great contribution mate Nice ship BTW, not exactly a baby by the looks of it. I cut my teeth doing delivery runs on super yachts, just a little different. Allways did want to do a cpl of trips on a "propper" vessel one day. Col. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KBH 7 Posted February 18, 2010 BUMP for KBH Thanks, guess I missed it the first time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spboudart 0 Posted January 20, 2011 A little update on this thread: After a while 2 of my colleagues ordered similar watch from me, here they are: I ended up also modifying mine into a blue color: And last week, I finished for a another colleague a different model using the same movement as the one used in the Pam 027/028 rep or homage. Odered the watch from Jackson and did a new dial: The final result: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spboudart 0 Posted February 23, 2011 So after my last post on this thread someone pmed me and ask me for a custom watch. We got an agreement, and I just mailed him the watch this morning! Here it is: Lume shot: And a wrist shot: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tissotman 0 Posted March 8, 2011 all very very nice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
