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I LOVE these watches!! Thanks for sharing this http://www.trustytime.biz/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=352&products_id=19061 There's most of them spelled out.

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Who's got the best.. lock picks? Grats Mike!

Geez @Nanuq I’m kind of disappointed in you. This is the Mods lounge on the number one rep modding forum. Don’t need no stinking keys. I taught myself to lock pick years ago Oh and I would stay away from that Johnny Walker, it’s the only decanter where the level keeps going up. I’m not sure Kernow always makes it to the heads

"Excellent question because I just saw this rectangular shaped gasket on a website. But I don't think anyone uses those anymore." Seiko uses a lot of the flat gaskets but they tend to crawl out of their shallow groove in the case and get cut or distorted quite a bit. Some of this trouble is because they are so thin. Most of them fit around the case back (not in a groove in the case) and as soon as the case back starts compressing the gasket you can not really tell what is happening to the gasket. The gasket groove in the case is shallow and the gasket is thin...not a good combo imho. In this type of case the 'groove' in the case is really just a slight relief cut into the case to help position the gasket. Sometimes you can see some of the gasket sticking out before you open the watch. Almost all gasket grooves in cases have flat sides and flat bottom areas. The correct round cross section gasket compresses enough to make it seal in the square area. Bought an assortment of thin flat gaskets from J. Borel years ago and half were black rubber and half were gray plastic. I might use one or two a year, mostly on Seiko, Pulsar etc. They are half price now: http://www.julesborel.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10511/.f?sc=31&category=973256

Definitely great advice from all those who responded! Are you confident with a watchmakers lathe? The other possibility is that you can fill in that section completely to make it as flush as possible to even out the step section. Then you can use a seal of any thickness you like provided that the mid case does not have he same issue! The old submariner cases had no groove (from what I remember) to seat the gaskets so I cannot see how this would not work. Check out the following product. https://www.jbweld.com/products/steelstik-epoxy-putty-stick. This product is the best invention for me since sliced bread as it keeps me sane especially that I can use it on stainless steel-- one of my worst enemy! LOL!! i used this to fill in the gasket groove of a heavily pitted case and then evened it out by smoothing it flush with the surface to have a uniform groove so that the seal would sit in nicely! Let us know how you go? Good luck!

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