Here is my Seiko 6309-5130.(1983) Another wreck of a watch to start but the end reward was worth all the work involved. This was part of a job lot of non runners I bought and as I had already done a hexagonal case this left me with some experience on how to tackle the restoration. I first of all stripped the movement down and as you can see from the photos this was an extremely dirty movement full of a sand like substance. It took allot of cleaning in the ultrasonic before I could rebuild. Once rebuilt and regulated I turned my attention to the case, I probably put in 3-4 hours to get it back to what you can see, bracelet another hour.. I then decided to attempt to repaint the hands. I stripped the old lume off and painted with model paint. In the photo it looks less than perfect but without magnification using the naked eye I think its fine. I lumed them after to complete the watch along with fitting a new of stock crystal. Very happy with the outcome on this one.
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