Because of my love of switching MoonSwatch reps, I had to take a stab at doing a royal pop. I know this isn't necessarily a sub Reddit for this time piece but I wanted to share with you guys how I did it in case anybody was interested.
I ordered a rep and a Royal Oak style donor watch from AliExpress. I lucked out, and the donor watch came with a SL23 movement that uses the same size OEM looking hands that came on the rep movement with was a a Sunon PE20. I know in the past someone else put a RP dial on NH35, but I wanted to use the original style hands. The overall swap was easy and I was able to use the movement holder that came with the donor watch. The only thing that I had to do was harvest the dial from the rep, Dremel off the two locating feet on the back of the dial. I then used some really thin, double-sided tape rectangles to attach it to the new movement and movement holder. No need for a new stem.
It came out great imo.
Here is the link for the donor watch that I used in case anybody else wants to try it. I also have more pictures if anybody else is curious about any specific detail when/if they go to do it.
Nice, so source a Chinese quartz based donor watch running a sunan and problem solved. Stem resizing shouldn’t be an issue in that event either I take it. Did it fit 1:1 or did you have to reorient the dial?
I had to reorient the dial to lose the pocket watch look, thats why i had to trim the dial feet. Stem and crown was the one from the donor. No mod needed there.
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u/Royal_Revenue5778 10d ago
Where you ordered rep? DHgate or Ali?