I Dissected My Gearboxes! Risky N Crazy =D

[CrazyALee]

1. Use the blue rectangular tool to unscrew the back cover
2. Use sharp pointy object to push in the arrow indicating hole and gently and carefully unscrew and pull out crown



Theres a white plastic cover, mainly to hold the battery and movement in place, comes right out.


Heres the movement wih the white plastic cover removed. (I know, the crown stem is back in)


Pretty carbon fiberrrrrrrrrr


Tube thread integrated in the case for the screw down crown feature.


Close up of the crown and stem



and the case itself with crystal


Back to normannnnnn

 

[Oakle y]

What inspired you to dissect your gearbox to just put it back together? just curious.

 

[Frogskins]

What inspired you to dissect your gearbox to just put it back together? just curious.

check out the first part of his username ...

 

[Oakle y]

check out the first part of his username ...

Haha all make sense now.

 

[Oakley-G37]

Curious, what was this done for? Or were you really that crazy. haha

 

[Oakley shoe nut]

Close up of the crown and stem

That's what popped out of my gearbox ages ago! The end to the left was the issue.

Also, Wished you had taken more pics of the carbon fiber dial.

 

[ericforman]

What inspired you to dissect your gearbox to just put it back together? just curious.

He might be an engineer type of person who is just curious about how things work

 

[kronin323]

I assume if it had been reinstalled with the dial upside down it would still work and then be basically a gearbox with the knob in the more traditional 3:00 position...

Then he could sell it on ebay as an "ULTRA RARE UNIQUE CUSTOM GEARBOX ONLY ONE LIKE IT IN THE WORLD $27K BIN!!!"

 

[CrazyALee]

What inspired you to dissect your gearbox to just put it back together? just curious.

For the white one, I recently had the battery replaced, so I wanted to see how I could do it myself one day.

For the titanium, I bought it through, and unfortunately I kind of overlooked the screw-down crown, it was threaded/stripped so when I tried screwing it back down, it wouldnt. I didnt notice at the time of sale...long story short I had to replace the crown

 

[CrazyALee]

I assume if it had been reinstalled with the dial upside down it would still work and then be basically a gearbox with the knob in the more traditional 3:00 position...

Then he could sell it on ebay as an "ULTRA RARE UNIQUE CUSTOM GEARBOX ONLY ONE LIKE IT IN THE WORLD $27K BIN!!!"

Haha if only so, however its not possible because the dial is one whole piece with the movement assembly, and theres only 1 opening where the crown would go in to adjust the time, which is the 9 o clock position