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Uhm, I did not get any reply... my email was very recent, just a few days ago. No problem about time, no rush here. I just hope I can book a slot on some next run of yours. Thanks!

Sorry to be late here. Follow stilty's instruction, but be sure to use a 1mm screwdriver (black color code) to push in the hole, or you will likely mess with the keyless work.

Thanks jbond for refreshing this classic! Always nice to read. Just one less-than-perfect remark: True. Not true. The ST-2530 movement in all PAM reps with power reserve indicator @5Hr is 35 jewels.

Absolutely right. When you find such a rare bird, and you like it, just jump on it! Btw, polishing a case is easy with CapeCod cloths.

The guy has just arrived, Z. On the time of your post, barely 2 minutes after his next post, you might have been typing while he was posting. See, his wallet is going to thin quite quickly... exactly like ours before vanishing. @nightstallion: welcome! Nice to read your honest and humorous tale. I am afraid that being bitten by the rep bug all at once, without even intentionally searching for it, might result even more devastating... And your choice of a PAM as your first rep, and your subsequent post, are a confirmation. Welcome, you will find yourself in good company here!

Yes, both prices and shipping fees are significantly cheaper from cousinsuk than ofrei. And as you are in Germany, cousins (UK located) is no doubt your choice. I doubt that anyone can offer a movement exactly like yours. And a 113 would have no date. If a DG3809 fits, I bet you might even swap the rotor with your current decorated one. In any case, good luck!

Hi, M. The Asian movement on most PAM reps with small seconds @9Hr and date is the DG3809 movement. Yours is not a DG3809, but, if it is 25.6mm diameter and about 6.1mm thick, a DG3809 may work as a replacement. The small seconds hand and the date window look placed in the same places as in the DG3809. A DG3809 costs 9.95 GBP from cousinsuk, or 25.60 USD from ofrei. At that price it might worth a try.

Wow, that would be awesome! Due to job issues, I am very unsure I will be able to attend a GTG, but I'll surely do my best. Rob, is there a chance to have a lume job done even without bringing the parts to you with my own hands, but using the mail system instead? Actually, five days ago I sent you this email: Hi Jennifer, I am Marco sssurfer from RWG, long time no talk, I hope all well with you and Rob. Almost one year ago I asked you for Rob to make the relume on my Bell & Ross. It was blue hands and dial, to relume with light blue superluminova provided by me (our former email exchange reported below this message). Rob was so kind to agree, as long as I would send him only the dial and hands, removed in advance from the watch. I badly damaged the dial on removing it, so I had to withdraw from our arrangement. Finally I now managed to get a replacement. But it is orange dial and hands. Would Rob make a light blue superluminova relume even on orange dial and hands? If this can help, I can send the original blue hands instead of the new orange ones. But the blue dial is unrecoverable. I also still have the light blue superluminova pigment to send you. Thanks and best regards, please let me know, Marco

Thanks once again for your reply, Rob. Now it is clear. I only managed to relume a few sandwich dials so far (apart for a few sausage test dials that I ruined, and a DSN 104 dial where I only slightly enlonged the short marker @9Hr), so I am completely naive about reluming sausage and especially cutout dials. So, thanks for your input too.

Thanks for your reply and new pics, Rob. I would have bet that you already took that reference pic in consideration. Just, I am now a little confused. To my eyes, the lume in the new pics looks almost like that in the right hand top and left hand middle of the reference pic, am I wrong? So, do they all get a similar look once applied, in spite of the differences in the way they are applied?

Maybe it was this one? http://www.blowers-jewellers.co.uk/panerai.htm

Wake up, people! This already actually happened. You are just living in a fictional, virtual world where reps are relatively easy to get. Knock knock, Neo.

I doubt that dial is gen. While the text looks correctly repped with serif (unsure: serif seem to show in the 2nd pic, but not in the 1st), the logo is a bit too large and the cutouts are even too sunken. The Zigmeister, your artwork is awesome as always! Just, on my info, the lume on the 201A does not fill the cutouts, it is the varnish that does. This would also help to save up on pigment, considering the depth of those cutouts. Here is my reference pic:

Yes, the dial of 44mm models is 34mm (34.5 for ST-2530 powered models). The dial of 47mm models is 38mm though. So it might work.

Awesome! Congrats!

The 1st one is fantasy. But nice! Just please turn that crown guard upside down.

Did anyone notice the year of this thread?

Iceberg is right. The light bending method is not 100% efficient in its actual state of developement. What you get is a suit almost like that of Predator in the movies with Schwarzy. A matter of time, I suppose. Also Chronus is right, light must be conveyed to the suit wearer's eyes in order to let him see. But this is a minor problem: if you can drive the light around an object, you can also drive it or part of it to whatever object you like. Infrared visors are completely useless to detect this suits. The makers would not let infrared rays to escape the suit. BTW, militars already have a way to actively detect objects without making the object aware of being detected, a sort of magic based on quantum interference. THIS would make the invisible suit useless -- but only to enemies in possess of such a sophisticate technique.

Same here. Not my cup of tea, but it looks nice and original!

Funny, considering I'm atheist and I especially dislike the catholic church.

Not my merit... I had to study Latin for years back on my schooldays... even attending scientific school.

You can always replace the deployant with a tang.

Intriguing... Just, what a pity to sacrify the small seconds hand.

It is macaronic Latin. "Probus" was a Latin word that means "upright". "Scafusia" vaguely resembles the way an ancient Latin would pronounce Schaffhausen (Schaff --> Scaf, hausen --> usia). Sort of "Procol Harum".