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here is a 1665 build, want to thank alligoat, hologramet, Automatico, kime and Slay members for all their advices and wisdom that they share with the forums hope you gusy like it

On a real rolex it is very hard to see the crown unless the dial is a odd color. I owned a real hulk and it did not show the crown much. When the LEC first came out it was almost impossible to see the crown with out a loop. If you hit a led light on it with the right angle then you could spot it. Reps show a lot more than real.

Really interesting stuff. Coincidentally I was just working on getting a Wyler automatic back in motion last night. I looked at the balance wheel and thought, man, no screw-in weights around the edges, seems cheap! Apparently I was dead wrong. The most fascinating thing about watches to me is the "losers" of history.. the numerous brands and inventors that were cutting-edge in their day but for whatever reason are all but forgotten now. Gruen is one of my favorite examples. A bit ago I stumbled on this excellent article about two early Fortis automatics designed by John Harwood, whom Rolex eventually had to give credit to in its advertising of the perpetual rotor design. One is a bumper auto in a waterproof case with no crown, time being set by turning the bezel, all in the 1920s mind you. The second is even more weird, a dress watch similar to the Wyler above but using a pivoting lug to translate strap flexion to a mechanical pushrod. The designs, broken down well in the article, are really incredible.

That WWW Timor is beautiful, nice work on the relume. One common practice I've seen is to remove radium lume under running water, supposedly that way any loose particles get swept away and become someone else's problem I guess. I would be worried about running a valuable 70 year old dial under running water though. You always hear that radium lume doesn't glow anymore because the phosphorescent zinc sulfide component has broken down. I wonder if it's possible to recoat lume plots with some kind of zinc sulfide mixture, preferably clear, to make them glow again. I don't know if it would work since this new coating isn't actually mixed with the radium, just sitting on top. But if you have to have radium on your dial it would at least be cool to get the full benefit along with the hazard. I'm wondering what to do with my 7909... the mutant green oblongs are pretty but it's a wearer so some glow would be nice..