Saturday, January 29, 2011

Jenny watch cleaning

I was not able completely clean the Jenny case. I've tried all my weapons. Water with soap and a toothbrush, ultrasound cleaning machine, solvents, garryflex ... Some dirt spots are still on the case but most of them in not so visible areas.
Here you are the cleaned components. Case, case back, ring & plexi


I don't know the original polished - brushed combination, but my guess was... The top surface brushed, this was the easy part, this part was quite nice and I could see the brush direction. The other areas, sides, back and diagonal surfaces have been polished. It is not a glass polish but a shiny polish. The ring is also polished, it looks like very nice.



Now it's time to clean & polish the band to finish the watch :)

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Jenny watch

A new dirty watch arrived today. This time is not a digital watch, it is a Swiss made automatic watch. 
I think I won't ever have a Jenny Caribbean watch, so I bought a Jenny watch but not a Caribbean. 
The watch has a ETA 2789 caliber, 25 jewels day-date caliber.
I tried my new ultrasonic cleaner but this watch is too dirty for this modern devices so I will need to go to the traditional cleaning ways, it will take more time but I hope I will be able to clean it.
Here you are the watch. 



At this moment the watch is disassembled and I'm trying to clean it. You can see the dirt of the case in the following picture.




The only thing that is correctly cleaned is the glass. It is a plexi glass that is polished using Xerapol and is ready to be installed on the watch


I will post more pictures of the Jenny watch cleaning process, that seems to be loooooong. 

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Fin springs

We are setting up our scuba dive gear for our next trip to Mexico. One of the new components, brought by Santa :), is the Tusa fin springs. The construction quality looks VERY nice, specially the ends (the bonding area between the springs and the fins). I'm not able to say if they work nice or not because I did not have the chance to check them. After the trip I will try to make a review.
Here you are two pics from Tusa web site.

El Buzo renders

A lot of small details have to be defined before to make the 1st mock-up. Nearly all the design is closed but the work is not already finished. Here you are the crowns. The time adjustment crown has the Crepas logo. Crepas is the brand who will make the watch. The GMT crown has a symbol with the same shape as the GMT hand. The hands are also a 100% new design, so we are not using stock hands, we will have exclusive hands for this watch :) I'll talk about the hands in a future post.
 And a GMT crown detal