HauteHippie Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Alrighty, then. Here we have a picture courtesy of The Zigmeister showing the new cyclops mounted to a PAM 89 at the proper distance from the date window. Magnification and distortion look very good... Also, as an alternative, I've set one of the lenses on top of my TW Best Frankensub (more about that watch another time). Note the distortion (or relative lack thereof) at the edges, and from various off-axis angles: As a side note, it's interesting that my hour hand is developing some sort of patina on it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaccum Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 out of topic question....the lume on the markers is c-1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauteHippie Posted March 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 out of topic question....the lume on the markers is c-1? Yes sir. C1 (white) Superluminova applied by Master The Zigmeister himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauteHippie Posted March 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Gen 104 for the heck of it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 I understand what you are saying. They look great and the lack of distortion is terrific. As I said previously I will take 10 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWG Technical Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 I think they look great, the lack of any distorsion is amazing... RG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaccum Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Yes sir. C1 (white) Superluminova applied by Master The Zigmeister himself. I knew it....I knew it! Nice work The Zigmeister!! vaccum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWG Technical Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Took another picture with the crystal the CORRECT Distance from the DIAL face. This should show the expected magnification. RG I knew it....I knew it! Nice work Ziggy!! vaccum Thanks, I can't hide anything from you... RG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sssurfer Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Great! no better tradeoff between magnification and distortion could be achieved. This is a masterpiece. Congrats! (I'm also glad for that little devil who insisted about the importance of low distortion... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archibald Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Great! no better tradeoff between magnification and distortion could be achieved. This is a masterpiece. Congrats! (I'm also glad for that little devil who insisted about the importance of low distortion... ) Awesome work!! I'm in for 2 if there are any left. As marco said, any more mag on those lenses and you'd get distortion. I'm convnced that OP's lenses themselves are no better than these. If gens have better mag it's either becase of deeper rehaut or possibly OP's grinding a pocket in the crystal to increase the distance between lens and DW. Which reminds me, has anyone who has recieved theirs tried to replace the cyclops on the "sandwhich" crystal equipped watches? If that works we'd be talking at least 1:1 mag on those pieces. If it turns ou these don't fit the drilled holes I think another run of lenes that do fit would be a huge seller as more watches arrive in that configuration, provided it's feasable to get the crystals apart w/o damaging them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauteHippie Posted March 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Awesome work!! I'm in for 2 if there are any left. As marco said, any more mag on those lenses and you'd get distortion. I'm convnced that OP's lenses themselves are no better than these. If gens have better mag it's either becase of deeper rehaut or possibly OP's grinding a pocket in the crystal to increase the distance between lens and DW. Which reminds me, has anyone who has recieved theirs tried to replace the cyclops on the "sandwhich" crystal equipped watches? If that works we'd be talking at least 1:1 mag on those pieces. If it turns ou these don't fit the drilled holes I think another run of lenes that do fit would be a huge seller as more watches arrive in that configuration, provided it's feasable to get the crystals apart w/o damaging them... I've heard one account that separating the sandwich crystal is not terribly difficult... I think it was Lello who tried it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sssurfer Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I've heard one account that separating the sandwich crystal is not terribly difficult... I think it was Lello who tried it. I can confirm. Lello tried and succeeded. Just heat (a flame) and the three pieces - the two crystal layers and the cyclops - came apart. Then, quite a bit of glue and some attention not to get air bubbles between the two layers while reassembling. I think I'm going to try the same on the next few days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauteHippie Posted March 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 (I'm also glad for that little devil who insisted about the importance of low distortion... ) Yes indeed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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