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As nice as a DSSD can be!

Mostly genuine

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What to do with a spanking shiny new dial when you want your watch to display a respectful age? Clear coat, dye and pray.... And the result is always different... For some reasons I can't explain! Well, here it turned in an interesting way. Some sort of "salt" formed and gives a lot of depth to the dial. Case is all Cartel fully reshaped, except the bezel insert from Vietnam and the 700 crown form Athaya. Crystal is a genuine used T21.

I have a love/hate relationship with this watch... I love it, because it's one of the most beautiful vintage Rolex in my opinion. What stands out to me is that it is one of the few Rolex where the acrylic crystal sits very low above the dial. The 6542 is one of the few watches that strikes a perfect balance between looking different & unique and modesty. I hate it, because finding gen parts for it, especially for the movement, is virtually impossible. Why you ask? Because across the entire Cal. 1030 movement family (1030, 1035, 1036, 1040, 1055, 1065 & 1066), there is only a single reference [the 6542], which used a GMT Version of these movements. To make things worse, even the parts that look identical to those of a regular Cal 103X or 106X, have slight differences which will drive you nuts when assembling the watch with non-GMT versions (calendar ring, hour wheel, cannon pin, etc.). Anyway...

Absolutely beautiful. And that's far and away the best Bakelite insert I've seen. I know what you mean about the color of the gilt. All my gilt dials have the same warm gold color showing through except my 1675. It's very much "whiter" almost like 10k gold next to 24k.

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Raffletime sell all these parts

From what you are saying, Matt, it sure does sound like the SA3135 you were comparing to the Yuki was a V1, not V2. I say this because I have also had a V1 SA3135 and a Yuki side by side, I will try and get one of these watches with the V2 SA3135 in, and get some good detailed strip down documentation with plenty off photos to either prove, or disprove the aforementioned claims by the op. I'm not in any way saying you are wrong @chefcook, I just want to find out for absolute certainty they the V2 SA3135 is indeed a Yuki or not, if it is, I would indeed be very happy about it as I could buy watches with this V2 fitted, and part them out

Wow. I have had the yuki and the sa side by side last week. While they look very much the same, nothing will interchange. I had a bad winding pinon on the yuki and thought I would pull the one from the sa to see if it would fit. By the way, the sa is a parts movement. The winding pinon was not even close to the one on the yuki. Niether was the clutch. I had the rotor assy off the sa and tried it on the yuki, again not even close to fitting. The calendar wheel was very close to fitting, but did not work right. The stop lever did fit both movements. The bal assy from the yuki looks almost identical as the sa, but will not interchange either. The repair I did on the yuki was with 3135 parts from star time. New winding pinion for the gen 3135, new winding wheel, and new clutch. They all fit the yuki and made a nice fix. Work very smooth. Also, the gen 3135 date wheel fits the yuki and works exactly like it should. While the sa and yuki look almost the same side by side, my experience is nothing about them is the same. That's my 2 cents.