Hi,
A noob to the forum but I have been collecting reps for some years. After having succesfully ruined a number of watches (all of them inferior reps and gens) and having completed a watch making seminar I am thinking about building one of my personal grail watches: a Milsub 5517. I would like to ask the seasoned members and roles experts of this forums for advice on which parts to get. My first thoughts on this:
- case
The best case probably is the one from Phong but, even if I'd be able or willing to pay 1.5 grand for a case, it justs fits the gen. 1520 movement, right ? So, this leaves the question which case to get correct engravings, a nice caseback (also with correct engravings) solid bars and so on. Any idea on a good case or a basic rep that could function as a base for this ?
- movement
It appears that the original 5517 used 1520 (19800 bph) and 1530 (18009 bph) movements ... so it would need a slow beat movement. Which rules out 2836 or 2824 movements which have a beat that is much too high. What do you think ? And obviously this would also affect the choice of my ...
... - Dial
Where can I source a 5517 T-dial ? Obviously Yao used to do those and they were great ... but it doesn't seem that there are any of those floating around.
and ...
- Hands
Omega Sword Hands ?
- Bezel insert.
I suppose the one from jewelryandwatch is the best ...
- Crown, tube
Guess it would be worth to spend the money on gen parts ...
Oh well ... and then there is vintage lume, general vintagizing of the watch ... sigh ...
Oh ... I hade to promise wifey to keep it below 1 grand all together ...
So, if anyone could help me to get started, happens to own parts I could use, please reply.
TNX in advance
Deepseadweller