My Bulova beater gets an upgrade

usclassic

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A while back I bought a severely scratched up Bulova 96b169 to try my hand at refurbishing. So I polished the case and bracelet and began many rounds of crystal polishing. The crystal while improved in overall appearance still had a deep scratch unfortunately running across the date window.

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So what to do?? It is just a beater watch after all so I did not want to replace the crystal. I did however just add a cyclops magnifier lens to my Marlin and thought perhaps the UV cement would fill in the scratch and make it invisible under a 5.5 mm round lens. So I gave it a shot.


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I am happy with the results and now have a better beater.

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that's what i'm talking about...building a better beater... nice tutorial and no stinking monthly payments...LOL
 
Great job!
Always fun fixing up a beater. No better way to learn what we're capable of too. :good:
 
Pretty sweet outcome. Nice way to try something different instead of just installing a new crystal. Nice beater!


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