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Custom SKX Mod Project - Part 2 - Installed Yobokies Silver Grand Seiko Diver Hands

This is Part 2 of my Custom SKX Mod Project. In this part, I show the end result of installing the Silver Grand Seiko Diver Hand set from Yobokies onto the custom and modded white submariner style dial which is mounted onto a NH36 movement. There's no special trick to this, really. It's all about being careful, patient and paying attention to the details. I try to explain in the video, but here are the basic steps to consider if you want to do a similar mod. 1) Make sure the movement is working! 2) If your movement is new, it is most likely made to have day & date wheel positioned at the 3 0'clock, but on Seiko watches that have crown at 4 o'clock, the day wheel will not align at 3 o'clock yet. You need to get a day wheel that is made for movement that will have crown at 4 o'clock. You can find them on ebay. Or, if you are no longer using the SKX (or whatever Seiko watch you are modding) movement, you can swap the day wheel from the 7s26 movement onto your new NH36 movement. Google and check youtube for more information regarding this part and procedure, if relevant to your mod. 3) If all is good in step 1, then move (or keep) the stem/crown in position to and advance the time forward. Once you start to get a hint of the date wheel moving, and as you know these movements turn the date slowly, slow down and carefully notice and listen for when the date makes it's full turn into the next date. Stop turning then! This is your midnight point. You now know that the date has flipped totally to the next day. Good reference to put your hour, minute & second hands to 12. This way, your watch should turn perfectly over onto the next day right at (or just right after) 12 midnight. Leave the crown in this position, you want to keep the seconds hacked and stopped, obviously as well as freezing the hour and minute hand from running and moving forward. 4) Install whatever dial you have for the movement. 5) Now your hour, minute & second hands are zeroed for 12 midnight mounting position and you have a dial with hour markers that will tell you exactly where 12 o'clock is exactly to align and install your hour, minute and second hands. QUICK TIP FOR INSTALLING HANDS: It can be hard to use a tweezer to try and place the hand onto the movements center columns. I believe I have seen others use this clay like substance. It's almost like FunTack that you use to mount posters onto walls. Sorry, I don't know what it's called, I usually see it as green color in other peoples' videos when they are showing how to custom mod and install hands. Basically, you mold and shape this piece into something you can hold well and with a bit of a tip so you can mount the end tip of your hand to it by just gently sticking it into it. It will hold the hand steady in place while you try to press it onto the center column. It should be a lot easier than trying to control and maintain the fine dexterity of a tweezer. 6) There's no trick at this point really to install the hands onto the center column(s) of your movement. You just have to be careful placing and checking alignment from all angles and slowly carefully push the hand set onto the respective column. Just go slow and check at all angles to check the angle, making sure it's not tilted in or out or up or down too much. Most importantly, check the height from dial to the hour hand. You want to make sure it's low enough to the dial to not interfere with the hands that will go above it, but not too low (or angles down) as to possibly hit any applied indices or details on the dial surface which are raised. 7) Repeat the steps to install the hour hand with the minute and second hands 8) The second hand can be the trickiest. It is the smallest. And there is just a very small tube at the base of the second hand where it slides and mount onto the center pin, which is really really tiny! It's a hard act trying to balance that tiny thin second hand on the tip of the center column. Will need at least 2 hands, one to hold steady, and the other to push down to at least get a grip and then press down more firmly later. 9) Once all the hands are installed and they appear to be all pointed directly at 12 o'clock position. Turn the crown and check to see if the hand and minute hands do indeed align at all hour positions around the dial. I have found that my hour hand was a bit off.. I think it would be just passed the hour mark when the minute hand was at the top of the hour. No, I do not remove all the hands and start over. I just carefully gently nudged the hour hand till it seemed like it would be in the correct position and perfectly lined up with the hour indices. I rotate the stem/crown again and check all hours. Repeat as necessary, you should eventually get the hour & minute hands both lined up perfectly through patience and diligence.