No More Crosshair, You Asked We Shipped & Top Mods
How to erase the crosshair from an AE-1200 dial, the orange filter you asked for, and six mods worth a second look.
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That crosshair in the dial? Optional.
Two threads on r/casioroyale asked the same question: can the printed lines in the AE-1200’s analog window go? u/JeremyCuntOfficial wanted the 12, 3, 6 and 9 markings gone, because the hands get hard to read when they line up with them.
Before: the lines in question, marked in blue.After: u/Chemical-Cricket-109’s clean dial, with birds.
It is doable, says u/Chemical-Cricket-109, who pulled it off, but it is “quite the giant pain in the ass.” The method comes from u/Rixtzz:
Take the display apart.
With a hobby knife or scalpel, cut away the foil layer on the back of the screen, then the rear polariser.
On the bare glass, rub the printed crosshair off with isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip.
Clean up the adhesive and put the polariser back, plus the foil if you want the same readability.
Go gently, says u/EatTheWaffle: isopropyl can take features you wanted to keep with it. And one reader pointed out the trade-off: with a busy picture behind the hands, the minute hand gets harder to spot.
Why bother?
Fallout, glowing in the dark
u/Rixtzz removed the whole crosshair, plus a corner of the rear polariser, to fit a transparent decal for a glow-in-the-dark Fallout mod. Rixtzz calls it tedious. The photo says worth it.
When we showed the new MODDS.WATCH on r/casiomods, u/b00zled sent the kind of feedback every builder wants: specific and easy to act on. The filter colors weren’t saturated enough, so matching a real orange LCD was “literally impossible.” And the Plastic material came out much lighter than the color selected.
The target: u/b00zled’s real orange LCD.The customizer now: #ff8000 at 0.80 transparency.
Both issues are fixed. The filter has a transparency slider, which is what lets a color get properly saturated, and the Plastic color now matches what you pick. While we were in there, the color picker got a rebuild too.
Also on the roadmap, straight from that thread: a transparent faceplate, and a tool that turns your artwork into print-ready sizes.
“Hands down the best looking and most practical modding simulator out there.”
Our picks from r/casiomods and r/casioroyale. Tap through, upvote, and say hi to the builders.
Crowd favorite
One smooth block
u/Ashamed_Panic6592 filed down an F-91W case with several grits of sandpaper, then polished it on a wheel until it became a single glossy surface. “I’m not saying it looks better than before,” the post says, “but I wanted to try something new.” It collected 700+ upvotes.
u/ThinkBachs summed up the thread: Casio modders are “the most creative and worthy people to associate myself with.”
u/JoaDeJoaquin gave an AE-1200 a One Piece makeover: a Straw Hat skull in the analog window, red, yellow and blue color on the display, and luminescent paint so the skull glows in the dark.
u/Ptr3nt13 finally got a W221H and confirmed it fits the Royale cases. Then came the faceplate: UV-printed and made for the stainless cases. Readers asked for a plainer version, and the answer was “for sure.”
For fans of the Casioak who find it a bit big, the small Detroit studio modlab company designed new parts for the GMA-S2100: turquoise dial, steel exterior, black rubber strap. Posted by the studio itself, and one commenter says it may have changed their mind about the whole Casioak idea.
u/david-r20’s first Casio mod: an AE-1200 on a bright orange NATO strap, with a NASA logo up top and a small blue Earth in the analog dial. Go say something kind.
u/My_laptop_sucks built this Royale entirely from AliExpress parts. Thread trick: u/Oddbourne-22 wiped the printed “10 YEAR BATTERY” text off their own watch with a plain eraser, and it “left no trace.”
Your mod could be next: post it on r/moddswatch. Photos and posts belong to their Reddit authors, credited and linked above. Want yours changed or removed? Message us there.
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