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I second the second one (oops) by Clive.

I am afraid I am missing what you mean as 'meridian indicators'. Is it the GMT function, by chance? In this case I agree with you, I too feel it a cluttering and unneeded feature, but I bet many other people would want it and I can understand them. To me, even less needed is the AM/PM feature (how many people live in a cavern?). But as for many other features, personally those models are my dream: - I love the sandwich dial, but I also absolutely need the date. Contrarily from former models, these have sandwich dial and date window. - I am a lazy guy and I prefer auto movements to manual. But actually I am so lazy that even auto movements go out of charge on my wrist. So a PR indicator is my favourite complication. - And about their cases, I heartily agree with you Maybe OP just overwhelmed those watches with feature because of: keeping their price high; encountering the needs of a differentiated market; showing some technique exercises; making the life of reppers harder... ?

AWESOME!!! I too stumbled upon the eTimer escapement analyzer a while ago, but got discouraged from its price. So I was currently considering freewares like Visual Analyzer, WTM (Windows Timing Machine) or Winscope. Is your method working with the demo version of eTimer, I suppose?

It's amazing the number of keyless works that got screwed up these days. I wonder whether it maybe a matter of increasing temperature that reduces tolerances (summer coming, I mean, not world weather)

Well, I would probably give a hand and an eye to have one of them. I find them much much more appealing that all those Ferrari models... BTW, thanks for the pics, rock (or doc)!

This forum is here for that. BTW, welcome.

Flagstaff, Arizona

Yes, they are offering relume as a service: you send them your dial and hands, then they send them back to you relumed, they do not actually sell SL. They assure they use original (rcTritec) SL to make your relume. The matte or glossy finish is what they obtain by mixing matte or glossy varnish to SL powder. Hope this makes sense now.

They accepted money in an envelope from me. Just tell Elisabeth that your bank charges scandalous fees on international wire transfers, she will work out a solution for you. As for the varnish thing: as far as I know, SL only comes in form of powders that you need to mix with varnish (not the way of, e.g., Bergeon luminous paste). And it is the varnish, matte or glossy, that gives the final matte or glossy look. Completely agree. On a performance/cost ratio, one may not want to spend 2x or more to get only 1.2-1.3x glow.

You believe everything they claim?

Same thoughts here. And even just replying the outer plates and look of an 8 day movement would sell like crazy, I would bet. I have a couple brown dials here that are just waiting for something that way...

Very useful, thanks! I'll try it as soon as I get a hand pusher that kind. All my current hands pusher are different from it, I could not use them along with your needle method.

Wow! Is it a guess, or a rumor, or reliable news, kruzer?

There is a German seller who is currently selling SL on the bay -- but just the pigment, no varnish, no thinner, etc. As far as I know, the only one selling complete SL kits is rctritec. Why not to buy from them?

I am no expert in rolex, but usually a crystal is not glued, it is pressed on a teflon gasket, and in order to replace it you just need a proper press. To order from cousinsuk you need to know the diameter and (approximate) thickness of the crystal. Was the watch a lady model? Had the crystal a cyclops (date lens)?

Oh my! Among the most hilarious things I ever heard.

"The broken mirror will not again reflect; Fallen flowers will not rise up to the branch" Zenrinkushu "A fallen flower returning to the branch? It was a butterfly" Arakida Moritake | | | V "Butterflies are self propelled flowers" R.A. Heinlein

I hope you glued the stem to the crown, not the stem into the movement! Out of joke, most likely the keyless work got screwed up. An easy fix to any watchsmith. And yes, 'noobmariner' is a registered trademark of TTK.

I know but I can't tell you else I'll have to kill you

Surely it is because your great skill in reluming makes you manage even those big parcticles, pubus. I was unable to cope with them, though. I just meant to warn all newcomers to relume -- like me -- that SL makes life much much easier than other products.

I am reconciliating with my country post service hearing all that. On a second thought no, it still stays worse than them all.

Superluminova outperforms Noctilumina, Ready Set Glow, and all similar products hands down. They can sustain comparison with SL only in their original gross-grain form -- which is almost unusable to relume watch dials (with exception for sandwich dials). The extra-fine grain Noctilumina is pure [censored] compared with SL. There is a reason why SL is so more expensive than those products. Give them all a try, compare them, then came back here and tell me if I said something wrong.

I don't know specifically about rolex movements, but I bet they all are the same. And -- thanks to the Tao -- asian stem use to be standard size as all stems: 0.90mm for auto movements, 1.20 mm for manual movements.

So the set screw was simply fully unscrewed, turning it all the way in, then out two turns, worked. Very good!

Maybe it was because I was reposting it exactly while you were trying to download. Does it work now?