Eco-Drive watch with Trasers?

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Atrick-Pay

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Ok, I'm looking to get my dream watch and
want to know what you guys think.

Basicly I want a Luminox Steath Watch with
Citizen Eco-Drive movement.

Short of that would be the name of a craftsman
willing to modify a Citizen Eco-Drive to have
Traser in it.

Any idea?

Thanks :)
 
The watch does not exist,

and making it, well, it's not too prudent.

You're switching a mediocre movement for another. The money you would spend on the new movement would far exceed the savings of not needing a battery.

A new battery for that watch will cost you about 2 dollars a piece in bulk... five if you buy it at the local mall. A movement conversion will cost you more money than you paid for the watch, with no guarantees that the movement will not malfunction. Tritium markers have a half life of about 12 years, so at about that time, one would think about replacing the watch anyway. If you were afraid of running out of batteries, you could change them every year (although one battery should last 5 years or more). That would cost you $60 over the span of 12 years if you do it at the mall, or $24 in one shot if you buy the batteries in bulk right now.

You could, however, replace the movement with an automatic movement or a windup, which will alleviate the necessity for a battery altogether, but again, the same arguements against... exists.
 
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, :)
But I've already thought of that arguement and
it hasn't really changed my mind.

I'm not planing to replace the watch, I hope to
leave/add glow-paint, So when the Trasers die
I'll just have a normal glow watch and then I
can think about trying to replace the Trasers.
I was also hoping when I found someone to do it,
We could find a way to use the tube from a
GlowRing, So hopeful it could be replaced in a few years.

So anyone else? :)
 
go to
broadarrow.net

What you will find are military watch collectors. Most of us (I post as AceNimrod there) do "FrankenWatch" projects where we switch this part on that part and so-and-so movements. One guy who's very good with the Luminox is a good friend Bill Yao. He's in Philadelphia and has a very nice practice of converting Luminox watches to look like the rare and collectable SandY P650 military issue version (he will not make them identically, so that the unscrupulous can not pass them off as the real thing)

Bill's site
http://www.mkiiwatches.com/

Bill will be able to tell you if you're project is possible.
 
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