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Love that dial. I think I know where this came from, I remember the dial. Depends on if you are doing the work yourself or paying to have it done. If you have the skills to replace the hands then you might consider that. If you have to send it out, I would just work those CG's a little and fade the insert. Keep it simple. You said the bezel was a little off, so while you trying to sort that out, fade the insert and work on the CG's. You can do that without taking the whole watch apart. As already stated, does not make much sense to do a high end franken build on a watch you can buy a nice gen for 4-5K. Enjoy the watch.

I bought a MBW DRSD almost 18 years ago and it was a great piece. Over the years I replaced the usual parts (crystal, insert, crown etc) and gen parts worked just fine. It was a very, very believable and solid piece. We have a member here, Rolexfinder, who put up a sale thread in the last couple days, and he can get a GW or DR 1665 from the last remaining MBW stock. If you're really interested in doing it right, buy one of those. Here are some comparisons between old MBW and gen:

Definitely trim the crown guards, install a new set of hands and color them to match the dial and maybe age the bezel insert. The pearl is ok and if you age the insert it will make it look more like a 30 year old watch. Dial feet have already been cut, so I'd forget about an uber franken. Besides it would cost you $2000 plus to do one. Case- $1K and movement- $1k plus.

Lol. $13,500 and it's yours

I would take yours over the one on Watchuseek!...However, I would not pay the $14,000.

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A, when are you going to admit that you were in fact the original manufacturer for the gen cyclob commissioned by AP? Hehe. Nice work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Really loving my first rep purchase. I can't quite get over this quality product coming from Andrew. I'll get more photos up in a positive review for him soon but I wanted to share. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk