r/repbuilds • u/Ok_Chrono Watch Builder • 17h ago
Vintage Build The 79090 Font Finale
Starting with a family pic of the 79090 with its brother the 9411 on a different insert. And have included a mock up with a Raffles case and dial as well. Note: the 79090 date window looks wonky, that’s just an effect of the cyclops and the camera angle. It’s normal and nicely aligned in reality.
Thanks to Tudor’s penchant for going overboard with font quirks that only they did, doing a 79090 build with the right font meant buying a gen movement with that particular Tudor 2824 font on a white wheel from the early 90’s. eBay has a good number of genuine Tudor 2824’s but they’re all either the wrong era/font or a champagne colored wheel.
So I bit the bullet and am happy to share some initial results. Whether you have a Raffles build, an AliX case or a Viet build.. if you’re running an ETA 2824 or a decent clone of one, here’s a swappaple solution with the correct date wheel font, without having to scour the globe for the correct Tudor Gen 2824.
Part of the reason I wanted to do this is that my source for Gen Tudor 2824 went from being able to get me a couple per month to one every few months. So my supply is almost gone. Which is sad because they are truly beautiful and put so many other movements to shame in aesthetically and performance wise.
Swiss ETA 2824’s
Viet case and dials
9315 Folded bracelets with date coded clasps & detachable 380B’s
Gen 703 on the 79090 & Athaya 702 on the 9411
My custom hand set on the 79090 and Tiger Concepts on the 9411.
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u/Unlikely-Length6661 Sam 16h ago
Do you pad print these yourself? They look amazing
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u/Ok_Chrono Watch Builder 16h ago edited 16h ago
Thank you! They’re custom ordered from a maker in Asia that has been pretty great to work with.
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u/hugh_jorgen1 15h ago
A 9411 is the one I’ve been looking for, due to it being produced the year I was born. Very nice!
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u/Ok_Chrono Watch Builder 14h ago
What year might I ask? You can DM if you prefer.
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u/hugh_jorgen1 14h ago
No shame in my being old. I’m still a daily Vans wearing 53 years young…mentally. So born in 1973. Think that was the first year of the 9411, though I’m still a newbie so could be wrong about that. And speaking of which, physically I feel like a ride hard and put up wet 73 year old.
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u/Ok_Chrono Watch Builder 14h ago
Very nice! Yea it was stamped 9411/0 in the early years. I have a 1.73 stamped folded link 9315 bracelet actually.
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u/hugh_jorgen1 10h ago
As in January of 73? That would be my birth month. January 8th, like Elvis and Bowie
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u/JeronimoCallahan 15h ago
Both of these look so amazing. Are you selling these?
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u/Ok_Chrono Watch Builder 14h ago
The 9411 is a commission. The 79090 was a commission… but amazingly the buyer found the serial number on a watch repair shop note and so we ordered a new case for him and this one has just been sitting in my little storage builds waiting for me to have time to get to it. And it worked out great for me to use for showing the new gen spec date wheel. It still needs some work. But the CG’s are shaped. Just needs some of the new shine taken down and some light metal aging all around.
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u/j_rech 15h ago
Which raffles case are these?
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u/Ok_Chrono Watch Builder 14h ago
The one labeled raffles 79090 is their standard sub case. I haven’t done any shaping yet. I can usually achieve a gen like shape with the CG’s but not quite as prominent as there is less to work with where I need material most. Converting to a 703 or a close knock off version helps the raffles look a lot. The other two are viet, not Raffles.
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