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Get a V75 powered Cartel rep, and change the dial ! Cheapest way I know.

Ok here's the Frosty Flake too What the heck, here's one of many surgeries as I brought this old Sub back to life too.

I'll post the Big Gonzo, but don't want to get entered in the competition. Enjoy!

Hi! Ive been looking for a decent vintage Daytona on the M2M sales forums and its realy hard to find one, so im considering getting one from a TD. Now that DW had dissapeared, which one would you guys recommend as a worthy alternative?

I would suggest to wait, DW Daytona on M2M sales

hi Supi, certainly you are right. The 6 o clock hand of the st 19 is frozen and has to be modded to accept a v72 spec dial, thats all.

Ha !!! I did it ! A '59 sub with SCG ! Like many of these non SCOC babes, the original gilt gloss dial was changed in the 70's by a modern 5513, along with the bezel. So was the gen I based my watch on..... This was my last Vietnam case set (same mid case as the one I sold two weeks ago on the sales area). Dial origin is unknown, but the quality is great. Inside runs a gen 1520, Yuki hands, gen SB, DW 700, DW insert and SK T19.

Here's Whoopy right after it falls out of the bezel in 10,000 crumbly bits:

There is a RWG member whose signature says it all: "When I look at my watch the last thing that I see is the time..." I really liked that and hope I got the quote correct.

Back in the arctic wilderness

1675

I'm giving the Big Gonzo a break, so back to an old friend today.

Looks great. What TD bought from? How's the movement? Winding etc?

Here's the review - the pics will follow either tonight or tomorrow morning. The Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial (what a mouthful) is a great sized watch. I was dubious, seeing that picture of it earlier in the thread next to the LV and how monstrous it looked, but on the wrist, it kind of works like a GMT IIc (one of the other few modern watches I wear) - slim and close to the wrist, letting you forget that it's there. The lug length is 41mm, so it is bigger, but it honestly feels the same size or a little bit smaller than a GMT IIc - it's pretty comparable to a 5513. I tried to get pics of it with each of them so you could see the size difference. One of the problems that I think makes people feel like it is a bigger watch is the bracelet. As it is an SEL, it has the same problem as many other SEL watches - the bracelet connects a good 1-2mm from the end of the lugs. This makes it look incredibly long, but in reality it is only a tiny bit bigger than the GMT IIc. Overall, a great sized watch, and that says a bit. My wrists are so skinny that even regular Subs seem to dwarf it, but this fits right at home in the "just a tiny bit bigger" category of dive watches. The readability is awesome. Seriously, I don't know of any other watch which is as legible at a first glance. I suppose I don't often mix up the hour and the minute hand on a Sub, but I sometimes don't see the second hand. Never a problem on this watch - the nice white crispness of the second hand makes it easy to see exactly where it is just at a glance. Now the review of the rep parts. Very well done, overall. The movement is not as bad as I had feared (the fact that it is a unidirectional rotor and that the seconds had a potential to stutter really worried me) but from what I've seen on mine the stutter is all but imperceptible (read not there at all that I could tell) and the unidirectional rotor is pretty quiet. I was fearing 21j noisiness, and in reality it is no louder than a regular ETA. The dial is deep black with silver numbers and cut-out sandwich dial lume markers. The daytime color is great (not too orange, and not too brown) and the lume is perfect - blue on everything except the minute hand and bezel pip, and let me tell you - it lasts for a long, long time. The bezel is pretty great too - 120 very solid clicks on an easy to turn by hand, virtually impossible by any other means rotation. I even like the polished midlinks more than I thought I would. They're not that stand-outish, and they remind me of some of the older gen Omega bracelets I had from the '50s and '60s. I suppose I could brush them if I want, but I don't mind an honest wear. The push clasp extension is a nice touch too. However, resizing is a PITA. Seriously - and I don't know if the gen is like this - but this is one thing Rolex gets right. On a newer Rolex bracelet, you unscrew one screw and the bracelet comes neatly apart. On this bracelet (which has links that are approximately 3/4 the size of standard Rolex links) you have to unscrew both sides and push a pin through the hole. Then, you have to keep the screws and pin separate while you remove the next set of screws and pins so that you can shorten the bracelet. Really a labor intensive job, and feels much less sturdy than the Rolex solution. One problem I had (which may not exist on the gen) is that the screws wanted to wiggle out, and it was a chore putting Loctite on all of them. Once done, it feels slightly more secure, but only slightly. Like I say, if I were using this for diving, and the gen is like this, I totally would not trust the bracelet, and it would go straight on a NATO. Overall though, a very solid entry and one I would recommend to everyone. It satisfies the "modern" in people with the slick, shiny, polished surfaces and the "vintage" in people by being an almost exact clone of the earlier Seamaster. Not at all heavy or too big (which I find even the SD4000 fits into, or even the 1665 for that matter) but a solid, understated watch that would look good anywhere from the pool (which mine is officially rated for, per the Puretime WR printout) to the conference room. The only complaint I had was the fact that my bezel is not exactly lined up - it's about 1-3mm off of dead center, which probably isn't enough to bug me now, but may bug others, so that is one thing to check on the QC photos. However, that may be just a one off, and shouldn't stop anyone from getting this watch.

Gorgeous watches and great pictures!