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Gorgeous job, congrats to the two of you ! Man if you sell some dial, i d love to get one for a 1675 buit

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Amazing work. That lume job is incredible. Congrats on this one.

Absolutely gorgeous watch, wear her in good health.

Yeah diameter are the same. I have seen a lot of good builds using ST19 movement, gen spec dials, and then just reshape case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Turned out amazing as I've already told you brother! Wear her in good health!

That is gorgeous gorgeous piece... Congrats.. Wear it in good health Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On custom Nero strap and Piotr buckle.

I still have the white dial and hands but I don't feel they have any sort of real attachment to my watch as they are service dial and hands and are not actually vintage but a remake of a vintage dial. I bought the watch hoping to find a genuine dial and hands with meters first. I'm sure I will and I'm sure it'll cost me some real coin but for now I'm totally content how the dial and hands came out on the watch. The date window isn't the best as the date was centered perfect on the white dial but I can live with it. Only other thing I'm keeping an eye out for is a gen 9315 bracelet Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like it turned out real good! I agree with everything Sogeha said in post 39 and always felt a genuine vintage rolex watch should be kept as close to genuine as possible so I would keep the dial/hands to go with the watch...maybe not on the watch but with the watch. But that's just me. Replica bracelets are Ok imho as they save a genuine bracelet from wear. As for Frankensteins...I go the lower buck route with MBK or Yuki cases, Yuki\IG 44 dials etc to save $$ but go with a genuine movement so the aftmkt dials, hands etc will fit. All my Frankensteins have come in at $2000 or less except for a Phong case/dial 1655 that is not finished yet...GMT parts will bust the budget. As for modern genuine rolex watches...I feel the same about modern rolex (most sapphire models) as I do about run of the mill low grade quartz watches...there is no such thing as botching one up. I see most of them as crappics, not classics. Not anything to do with this thread and I may be stepping on toes but I always leave higher grade replica cases basically as is and do not try to artificially 'age' them because they age quick enough if you wear them. I have seen some fine cases ruined because of efforts to age them...also seen a lot of oversize and/or beveled spring bar holes and ruined CG.

...And Paul Picot for Sunday

I ll post pictures tonight. Matt is currently doing his best to fit me a plastic crystal! He really is a modder that will try to accomodate your desires the best he can.

Wearing the Submariner's predecessor today (Sunday)

Very nice. Is that the Nightwatch 372/203 set?

My version on 6152 on custom Nero strap with silver Thumbelina Rolko buckle.

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@philwongnz - It would super cool to see what TM would do for a Bakelite insert.

1675 or a 6542 will be nice...

Overall great work, but you are far from complete. Mint is 1 thing, but, as many of us learned along the way, modification & assembly are the easy parts, relatively speaking. Making a new 60-ish year old watch look 'real' is the hard part.

The moment I put the Greentech and Gold/Red Spidolites side by side, these words from Culture Club's Karma Chameleon immediately came to mind: "Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dream Red, gold and green Red, gold and green..." That's a great song and a veritable soundtrack of my generation. Yeah, I know I'm showing my age! [emoji1] Anyways, pardon the dust and enjoy the photos.