How a bad buy can turn out to be good (0634)

[dutchsiberia]

I was looking at an auction. few seconds to go for a quick glimpse on the cellphone and won this nice 1975 Seiko 0634-5000 from Italy.
Very cheap. Waaay too cheap
Hmmm, lets look at the picture on the laptop.


Oohhh shht
And the seller doesn't accept paypal

Well after an international bank transfer (€37,50 in total) the watch arrived.
Dead black lcd fell apart in pieces.
Module (0634A!) works


Well what to to then? I remembered having a dead module somewhere with an intact lcd with very degraded front polariser (no pics sorry :( ) Very dark and big orange spot. But working.
The polarizer from the dead black lcd turned out to be in a nice condition, after removal with a sharp knife and cleaning of the glue. (and it's the version with the print on it :) )
The worn polarizer from the working lcd snapped in pieces during removal, during a few minutes I thought I snapped the lcd in half

I placed the polarizer on the donor lcd without glue, the scary metal lcd clamp is keeping everything in place.
It could use just a little more tweaking but I'll leave it alone now, It looks nice enough :)

In real life the scratches are less visible :)

[Kasper]

great stuff and nicely done. One of the more beautiful seiko's

[cylon123]

Looks nice , but could do with some metal cleaning. I bought some sandpaper off amazon and its fine grade , you should get some also , it works really well and is quite easy to do. Cost £5 for a set of dif grades. I'm not sure how to clean a lens yet , I did read the really fine paper can be used but I'm not certain about that. Enjoy the watch , it's really cool one. I just got a 0532 5010r and it's amazing , when I change the wrist band I'm going to post some photos up. It's such a great watch, so pleased.