Ever Wondered How To Build a PAM Homage? Here You Go.

[marksmadsen]

Unfortunately a lot of the watches I've built can't be posted here. But here are some of the sterile ones, all using 6497's and built using this same method...

Not all. A 6498 sneaked in there... :)

[midshipman01]

Not all. A 6498 sneaked in there... :)

He's right folks. I'm a fraud. Thought I could slip a 6 o'clock second hand by you.

[G-Shocks Are Cool.]

Nice leather bund watch band.

[cptime]

Great dials, I especially like first one, and the all white sandwich. Did you do the painting yourself? If so, I'm assuming that on the white one you left the bottom part of the dial black at first, then decided it looked better all-white?

I've been looking around for a full lume sandwich dial pam homage- (black on the bottom layer and full lume with the cutouts on top, with black hands) but have had absolutely zero luck. Your white dial comes closer than anything I've seen yet. Its great. Fantastic post. Thanks for sharing.

[marksmadsen]

He's right folks. I'm a fraud. Thought I could slip a 6 o'clock second hand by you.

Heh. I'm very conscious of 6-o'clock seconds because I have all the parts for a very similar piece in the mail right now.

[ChiefWahoo]

I want to make that pilot watch!

[midshipman01]

Great dials, I especially like first one, and the all white sandwich. Did you do the painting yourself? If so, I'm assuming that on the white one you left the bottom part of the dial black at first, then decided it looked better all-white?

I've been looking around for a full lume sandwich dial pam homage- (black on the bottom layer and full lume with the cutouts on top, with black hands) but have had absolutely zero luck. Your white dial comes closer than anything I've seen yet. Its great. Fantastic post. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, I actually like to do the painting and aging maybe a little more than the building. I guess it's a different kind of fun. Building can be great if you just want to wind down for a while and listen to some music...but the modding lets you sort of experiment with all the crazy ideas you can come up with. I've probably ruined just as many parts that came out great, but that's how it goes.

[Robm612]

Thanks. I went ahead and revised it and added pics since the formatting on the original got all messed up moving it over to the site. Hopefully at least a few people will see that it's really not terribly difficult. This is definitely the place to start if you want to mod or build, and you can take a lot of this knowledge over to pretty much any other kind of watch.

If i was to do this could i leave out the "face" and make it a skeleton watch? Or are these movements not that great for such a purpose?

[marksmadsen]

If i was to do this could i leave out the "face" and make it a skeleton watch? Or are these movements not that great for such a purpose?

The movements tend to be surprisingly nicely decorated, but you can also get skeleton versions of the 6497 and 6498 that are designed to be visible through a cut out dial, or no dial at all.

[Chronopolis]

Respect!