Another Vintage Citizen Diver restoration

I've had this watch sitiing in my parts box for a few years now. I always figured it would be a parts watch to be used to resurrect another diver. But as the years went by, and I learned to do different processes regarding restoration, I would use this watch to practice on. I've been approached by a few people this past year to do some work on their watches, and I've managed to collect a few parts from them and for them, as well as find new sources for parts for my own watches. I've managed to find enough parts to complete this watch that I thought would never be used again. Especially since I used it to practice on. All it needs now is a service as it gains about a minute an hour. It has a cracked bezel near the 40min marker. I've got another used parts diver on the way. Hopefully I can use the bezel on that one to replace this broken one. If not, I'm planning on finding someone with a lazer welder to see if they'd be interested in seeing if they could weld the bezel, and I would do the finish work. Heres the dial and hand set before restoration. You can see it is very dirty. The markers lost a lot of chrome plating, and it had significant pitting. The hands also were in the same condition.

This is after I cleaned the dial, markers, and hand set.

Here, I started removing the old lume (4 and 5 markers) to prepare for new lume.

This is a picture taken after I re-applied Silver paint to the borders of the hour markers.

This is after I finished applying silver to the markers, and hands, and reluming both dial and hands. The crystal seen in the picture is the original crystal. You can see gouges and dings in the crystal. You can also see a big gouge of metal broke off the crown. But it was only on the surface, so it still functions properly.

A guy on Ebay has produced a limited number of new crystals and bezel inserts for certain models of Vintage Citizen divers, so I bought both for this watch. I have another whole vintage Citizen Diver I just bought from the person I was doing work on his watch, but he decided there were too many uncertainties in restoring the watch, so I offered to purchase and do a partial trade with him. He kindly accepted, and was happy that I was going to continue on with the restoration. Anyway, here is the almost finished product.

Here's the Lume shot.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/12/2012 10:53PM by Jose5.