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Official Launch of the El Skawronek - an original phoband


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Edit - Images optimized - sorry for the large files before

So, as everyone knows i steal my ideas from other folks - and i have many many thanks to those who helped me get this watch together - first and foremost chris5264 who basically had the idea to start with - tourby who worked with me to get the case and movement right and pizzanoo who worked with me to get the movement :)

- This is a super fine watch, exactly what i wanted and frankly i couldn't have been happier.

Enjoy the eye porn

Your looking at a

Swiss tourby Case

Swiss Tourby Pilot hands SL

Asian movement

beck superior pvd deployant

gen croc strap

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more on my new photo styling in another thread

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very nice indeed.. how durable is the pvd coating on this one?

Its a $300 case. same factory that makes like SINN and other cases - its from Tourby - swiss, best you can get - in the real world :)

its polished - its AWESOME. i wish they made other polished pvd watches - a polished PO would be AWESOME

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i kust took the parts to a local watchmaker. he out it together for me no prob

That's some good advice, would make the process a lot easier. My biggest problem I see is I would get too adventurous in what I wanted on the dial in way of complications and not be able to find a movement I could put in it :animal_rooster:

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That's some good advice, would make the process a lot easier. My biggest problem I see is I would get too adventurous in what I wanted on the dial in way of complications and not be able to find a movement I could put in it :animal_rooster:

actually findng compatable parts really sucks case hand movement. thats why i go with stuff that is already proven to work

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Great work phoband!! I admit, I like your strap and buckle much better than the ones I used. The hands are growing on me, it really gives it a very original look and I know first hand the lum in great on those. I'm considering putting in a nice upgraded skeleton movement in mine with blued hands. Anyway,,,nice work and congrats...

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super nice....I'm tempted to do one with a silver skeleton movement. Tourby's case is especially nice. Does it come with super AR?

-bosk

IMO,,,the AR is the best out there...I don't think it is external, which is more a matter of preference, but the internal AR is great.

Also, I think the silver would work well too..

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Yo Phoband. Just a quick question. Love your new watch. About a year a go i had the same idea with the same movement and a radiomir pvd case. How ever i never managed to get the hour hand to saty put. I even tried to manufacture a see through dial.

Do you have any idea how your watchsmith managed this? id love to finish this project.

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Yo Phoband. Just a quick question. Love your new watch. About a year a go i had the same idea with the same movement and a radiomir pvd case. How ever i never managed to get the hour hand to saty put. I even tried to manufacture a see through dial.

Do you have any idea how your watchsmith managed this? id love to finish this project.

The hour hand that i used was made for this movement. So, you may want to get hands that specifically fit the movement.

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Photoband,,,again,,,great work on this project. I'm curious if you know how your watchmaker dealt with putting on the hands? The issue I've worked for a LONG time was how to make sure the hour wheel would stay down if the watch were turned upside down. Recently after taking apart an Asian skeleton I discovered that at least some of these use a small o-ring on the cannon pinion, it sits practically on top of the min hand. This really works great as I used this on my version of the El Skawronek, I

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