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Thanks for the insight @tomhorn and @freddy333. Planning will definitely be key in this, something i understood early on with the moving market, change of rep part availability and just trying to gain the necessary information. For me I think the hardest part is figuring out if i will be happy enough with a rep case for example. Ideally i would wanna build all gen parts, but price and availability doesn’t make it fun, and to me that is a key aspect, i want to build something that i can be proud of and have fun building / searching for parts / researching. And thanks again, not just for the reply, but for all the information you contribute to this forum and community, i have read a couple of your posts and learnt a lot.

Thanks a lot @automatico! Great answers to my questions. Maybe i should start with the 1016 and work my way up from there. Actually already had read some of your links but read them again with more understanding. I will contemplate and we will see next steps. Take care

Hello everyone and thanks for an awesome forum. So much good content that its hard to consume everything and map it to actual and outdated information, and therein lies some of my questions. I have done some Seiko mods from part up to full build, so i think i might have some of the techniques down. However i have never worked on Rolex before, but it seems like a fun challenge. I would like to try my hands at a Submariner. Preferably with a gen case and gen dial. But before i begin I am trying to figure a couple of things out: It seems like a lot of builds do not use gen cases and i cannot figure out why not? Is it availability / price of parts? Or is it because rep parts are so damn good? I’m also trying to figure out what would be a good ref to start out with in terms of gen part availability + rep parts compatability / availability. Preferably i would like a vintage model like the 5513, but i am guessing the newer models have much more fairer prices, is that assumption correct? Dream would be finding a gen case (aftermarket insert / glass is fine), putting in a spacer for an ETA movement, fit a gen dial, aftermarket hands, crown. Is this doable? Would you advise me against it? I don’t see a lot of people doing it for some reason. Why is that? Thanks you!