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BK will do a great job with cleaning up a rep for you - making it look "right" as many come with misaligned rehauts, and other nonsense. In my humble opinion for a quality piece you'll want to spend between $600 to $800 if there's any modifications or tune-up involved. That said you can wait around and troll the forums for a good one to come up (used) for sale for $350 or so but it likely won't have BK's touch to it. Many of the newer rep Sub's have a SH3135 movement, a complete clone of the 3135 and you can add in many fine genuine parts, like a balance, rotor, and bridges. You could also add genuine hands, datewheel and dial if you so chose. I think the insert, hands, and datewheel are the first thing I would do. Good luck https://puretime.io/watch-brands/rolex/submariner/submariner-116610-ln-black-ceramic-arf-1-1-best-edition-904l-ss-case-and-bracelet-sh3135v2.html Also, just a FYI - having owned a genuine Hulk sub for a couple years... they catch a lot of looks and scrutiny, and the rep's are about... 70% close to the genuine with regard to dial and bezel insert color. I would go with just Black/Black unless you must really have the Hulk.

Dammit, of course! I have GOT to get a better monitor.

Thank you all so much for your well wishes! Here's an update as of 2/14 (because Valentines = Heart Day so why not) I prepared for friends and family: Out of Left Field; My Heart and Prognosis as of Now Experts in their field at Massachusetts General Hospital have evaluated me over the past week or so, as well as top quality cardiologists in Worcester too. On December 18th, 2018 I went to the emergency room with chest pains. I was told that a heart-attack wasn’t happening, yay! But there was no immediate explanation for why my heart felt like it was going between squeezing and thrashing about in my rib-cage. So, as I am generally fond of living, I pursued a diagnosis. I am now diagnosed with acute heart-failure and will be seen by both doctors here in Worcester, and by the exemplary Heart-Failure Team at MGH in Boston. Now, as you can imagine this is quite a surprise! I am 38 years young and an otherwise very healthy and happy man. I do not present with any hint of coronary artery disease, no history of smoking or much drinking (nothing that would constitute alcohol abuse) and literally zero illicit drug use. I’m a married man, father of two children, professional with a relatively upper-middle-class lifestyle and I’ve had access to presumably good-quality-medical care my entire life. The predicament I find myself in now is quite an interesting one in nearly every facet. So, How Did I Get Here? I am told that little is really known about how acute cardiomyopathy comes about. It can be a viral infection that took its toll while I powered through a cold… it could have been genetic, congenital or just sheer bad luck. The past, the how, is not really what I am concerned with. The present, the future is what gives me great angst. What Now? Well… that’s the tricky part of my diagnosis. There’s no guaranteed outcome. I have been prescribed several medications that are designed to protect the heart, and help it heal and grow stronger. I’ll be on a heart-strengthening diet and participating in cardio-rehab (i.e.: walking and light exercise) but not pushing it. The damage to my heart is severe. My ejection fraction for both ventricles is in the high 20’s low 30’s and there is a low modicum of risk in sudden cardiac death. MGH in Boston I was reviewed at Massachusetts General Hospital by a world-renowned surgeon, Dr. Duke Cameron, formerly Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He was of the mind that a replacement of my bicuspid valve, that was leaking would be a solid stop-gap measure before moving forward with heart-failure care/rehabilitation. I was prepped for surgery and taken into the OR. As a matter of course prior to open-heart surgery and particularly valve replacement surgery some further tests are given. I was given a cardiac catheterization of my right arm, a swan catheterization in my neck, and then a transesophageal echocardiogram of my heart/aorta. They blew my blood pressure up to 180/200 bpm and saw that the aortic regurgitation was not as significant as before, also under stress they saw some mitral valve leakage. They aborted the surgery. Dr. Cameron and his team did not think replacing the valve(s) would give me enough relief or help my heart heal quicker (at any rate) to justify cracking me open. The issue lay elsewhere, inconsistent with previous thoughts. So now I stand diagnosed with acute cardiomyopathy. Pleasantly enough, I don't have the edema (water) in my legs or lungs. But, sadly my left and right heart chambers/ventricles are basically all but burned out. The Heart Failure Team has prescribed medication they hope to see improve my heart strength within the next 3 months. I am monitored by the MGH heart failure team. That said, if there is no marked improvement in the next 3 months, or any further deterioration they will install a defibrillator in my chest that may provide a life-saving ‘kick-in-the-chest’ that would allow me to get to an ER. As it stands there is a great deal of uncertainty in my prognosis and future. My best and ultimate course of action is to remain optimistic, eat right, exercise, take my medication, go to my follow-up appointments and cardiac-rehab, and see a positive outcome in the next 3-6 months. I enjoy living, and I certainly do have a lot to live for. Hopefully this helps my heart and I can repair the damage done, if not probably a replacement heart will be necessary at some point.

It seems you have found BK , good. I also noticed you asked him to contact you , well that's sort of not the way it works. Click on his name send a message (A PM) to him in regard the watch you want . He also has his email right under his section , you contact him is protocol.

Congrats man, that is simply an amazing 5513. Can't really go wrong with that decision

Nice job man. It hurts me to age a dial once I have one nicely made but it needs to be done. I'm planning on doing a final dial eventually, with gold electro-plating, white paint under the lume markers, better lume, and textured a bit like yours. From all the pics I have seen, the Tudor dials tend to look fairly matte now; I'm not sure how glossy they were originally but probably not as much as the concurrent Rolex dials. Now how to get the raised ink effect on the text... that is the final frontier

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So here is my attempt using your decal,I've gone for a Radium dusty effect,the lume is maybe a bit more textured than I would have liked but it's more noticeable in photos than in person

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This is great @jimcon11! Keep up the rigorous, detail-oriented work and keep sharing your process. Experimenting, sharing, and helping each other is what this is all about.

The Zigmeister 5512

The Nastymariner sporting a brand new crystal!

Very nice build indeed, The watch is put together perfectly, nothing sticks out.

Awesome build! That dial and the rest mates perfectly... please isolate the bezel insert with Kapton or some type pf masking tape. Then take some Polywatch ans give that pearl some love. Jensens and Phongs pearls look like rotten yellow M’n’Ms. Once again... Awesome!