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Have been pushed for spare time recently, but found the needed space and peace to build up another Square guard, but this time the less popular Tudor. I read somewhere that after Rolex's realization that the 100 or so units were not popular enough and the functionality was poor, they fobbed of the remaining cases to Tudor for some 7928's, I would assume that they are equally as rare as the bigger brother if not slightly more so in numbers today. Iv'e had this on my bench for over 6 months, it takes a lot of time to make a case I'm happy with, we all understand the ocd associated with the hobby ....the more we reaserch the worse it becomes. A few Specs. Cartel case was taken down on the lathe and also the rehaut which I measured appropriately to my gen 5513, I assumed it was very similar as my case is a 1966 but its a good guide. Case was laser welded, shaped, etc... Drilled lugs 1.2mm Fat Chamfers tube was retapped, Adrian's crown tube installed. Serviced 2846 eta/ homebrew mov ring made from brass ring. dial is from Tonnywatches, I assume same as all the other Vietnamese sellers and vendors. Hands are from TC, replated, and then I used old tritium salvaged from hands I have collected to mix and relume adding some pigment to match the dial. Crystal is from Micheal Young Bezel is Phong, nice and slim, and matches crown height well. Insert for now is a Yuki, cooked and faded, ghost tropic if you will. bracelet is a Cartel folded link drilled, fat bars added with wso endlinks. couple of crap iPhone pics cheers.

Wearing a bit of Mystery today

Sead at Supermirrors has the Cartel 1675's He is easy to deal with too....

Sub 5513 1966

Which case will you use? Phong, DW, Yuki?

5510 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cartel with non oyster pushers? Nice! I didn't know there was one as as far I could see the only available case made by the cartel is a 6263. Could we see more please? Especially the pushers side!

Just stumbled onto this thread and flipped through all 22 pages. Awesome stuff from legendary builders !! Here is my humble contribution Cartel 1675. From Sead Aged case Aged dial and hands Aged bezel Clark's crystal Milsub flat case back WSO 7206 Rivet bracelet My first rep and mod project Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

14270 on NATO I'm more of a bracelet guy though Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Love mine gen service top hat ,mbw case, just ordered a really nice dial

Stormtooper4 I believe i bought the 39mm. Ill post pics how it looks when i get it. The gen is in only one size right? 39mm right? I dont think they make the gen in 34mm but im not 100% sure? Also all the videos i see about the purple rep looks great, the color looks really damn close to gen. It remindes me of the sunburst style dials they do. Hopefully it looks as good or better in person.

"While the C+I bracelets are probably not as desirable as the Swiss made bracelets, like everything else Vintage Rolex, they are not cheap. I have seen recently 20mm C+I bracelets in good condition selling for over 2000.00 USD. the 19mm bracelets are not as expensive, but ones in really nice shape are selling for 700-800 USD !!" Good find! Times sure have changed. I remember in 1972 when 19 and 20mm C&I bracelets were $59 new at a rolex AD about 20 miles away and when I bought a new watch from them they gave me one free. Another AD in our home town had similar bracelets with a coronet of a sort on the clasp but not signed rolex and they were $29. I still have one somewhere (stretchy type), that I wore it on a 1603 DJ. Iirc the stretchy models were a few bucks more. They were hair pullers though, after wearing one for a week your arm would be slick as a high school Cheerleader's leg. (Is it against the law now to say that?) Here is one like it: http://picclick.com/Vintage-Very-Rare-Rolex-Oyster-Style-Cromwell-Rivet-222300324810.html

Done! Custom PVD and caseback by Grimlocktime! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Unfortunately, once you send these scammers your money, you are out of luck. The first BIG red flag is they offer Swiss made replicas. Total BS. Switzerland has the most draconian anti counterfeiting laws in the world. A factory making replicas in Switzerland would be shut down in the blink of and eye, and the principals put in jail. Absolutely no reps coming from the Swiss, guaranteed. Experiences like this are why we urge members to stick to trusted dealers on this and other rep forums. These sites have a long history of scamming folks. They all use photos of genuine watches, and deliver Canal Street quality junk. They have these pseudo -reviews, that are completely bogus, written by the guys running the sites. Just try to write a negative review and see if it ever sees the light of day! Run do not walk away from these scammers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk