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Καλά Χριστούγεννα σε όλους! I pray that the land of my ancestors and people of Greece have a much better coming year. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

I know I haven't been about this year, but still drop in to read from time to time and enjoying the watches I have. (Although the pile to be fixed / serviced is growing!!) Happy Christmas and New Year all! Richard Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

...my friends Especially in these days I'm proud of being part of this community because next to those important things like watches...the most important passion we all share is humanity! I'd like to thank all of you for being the persons you are Thorsten Sent from my wooden drums via Tupperware

Congrats Both are amazing Merry Christmas Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'll just leave this here - added gen dial, gen hands, gen MKII insert. beating inside is a top-serviced cal.1520

Καλά Χριστούγεννα σε όλους! Merry Christmas to all from Greece! Elias Sent from my ZP999 using Tapatalk

Thankyou Legend, my watch has arrived in time for Christmas and WOW what a gorgeos time peice. It is No3 of 10, I have taken some daytime pics but my photography just could not capture the qualities of this stunning build. The AR coating allows the dial detail to shine through and the evenly recessed besel screws just give that feel of shear quality. However what you cant see is the smooth feel of the mechanism when winding, this is a hand built and oiled movement accurate with a long power resurve and it is going to be reliable, it has been waterproofed and tested so this makes a good choice for holidays. The best way to sum up this build is that you could wear it in a AP boutique with confidence the build is that good. Many Many thanks Legend .nmdsdcid

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Welcome, I'm very often in Itay, where are you from?

Welcome to RWG! You've certainly come to the right place for anything vintage rolex related

When building a Rolex people sometimes ask why they need a date wheel overlay since the movement has a date wheel. If there ever was a more compelling reason to build nifty Tudor projects I can't think of one!! The common movements used in reps have a date wheel proportioned for what can be thought of as an old 4:3 TV set while the window in a Rolex dial is similar to the newer 16:9 HD sets! You have to stick an overlay over the native date wheel or you'll wind up with something like this: To compound the Rollie builder's life even further the vintage builds will usually require a font with "Flat threes" and "open sixes and nines". Seems most of the more easily obtainable overlays come with "round threes" and "closed sixes and nines". Here is my solution to this issue... Most overlays come printed onto what looks like a brass or stainless steel disc with the SS ones being the more common (at least as I've seen it). These things can be dunked in lacquer thinner or acetone, stripped, brushed, painted, BBQed, etc., and re-covered according to your needs. Brother Ubi was nice enough to loan me a gen vintage style date wheel which I used to create a clear decal. Is it perfect? No, but unless under extreme magnification it looks pretty good and will certainly pass the "wrist test". I started with an overlay that was on a SS substrate: I then brushed it in a radial direction with a Scotch Brite and applied this: To get this: Which I epoxied over the sanded 2846 date wheel like so: Installed the dial and had this: Which fully assembled looks like this: This finished pic shows the font under considerable magnification so it does look a bit "soft" but this is not really evident "on the wrist". If anybody needs to make themselves some vintage overlays drop me a PM as I printed plenty of extras and even have a few overlay "blanks".