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i heard that most gen owners remove them before wearing there watch and some carefully remove it and save it! leaving it will only result in a messy sticky caseback!

HI deniz he should go for the 14k it is better but i would say tt subs are not good for everyday use only for best wear because sweat acid attacks the gold plus scatches appear on the buckle its worth noteing that even a gen tt the buckle is also only plated a friend of mine has a blue tt and after 5 years all the plating on the buckle has worn off leaving the stainless steel showing! if you have a desk job the worst is rubbing the buckle on the table! i would go for a white gold like the oversized case new sub with ceramic bezel as these the white gold colour is polished stainless steel and any scratches can be polished out on the shiny parts and rebrushed on the brushed parts using a 3m scouror pad!

It doesent in real life only when i photograph it strange , it doent look huge like the 1665 superdome this crystal has a flatter surface not domed like the 1665 comex

Love the 1680 what a watch! here are some more photos of the subs crystal we used a cracked tropic 19 for a pattern i wanted the same shape and distortion as on the gen but i wanted it taller 6mm thick total i love tall crystals on vintage watches last photo the comex is extream! but its custom built i think it looks cool ! the three watches one on top of the other the sub 5512 is the middle one!

Why not? we know rolex will never do it, so why dont we do it? omega did it with the first moon watch!

Good evening FxrAndy i recall seeing the small triangle hand set somewhere but i cant remember where? i think this will be a nice watch, ok so it may not be 100 % as the gen because i intend to use your 2893-2 fast beat so this will be a homage to the no crown guard gmt but with the vintage theme! yes it will be hard to find a small triagle hand if we do find any aftermaket they will be for a gen movement and wont work on eta mabe we can do some adapting(engineering) or make our own hand! i like this case idea better that the 1680 also its very rare!

Hi alligoat! Thats it, this image has been on the back of my mind for months one thing i dont like about my thin case pepsi dial is the oyster perpetual date , well let see what will be the price of this watch, yuki has the bakelite pepsi bezel but its pricy im lookin into using a steel insert and making a acryic insert cover and glueing it with uv addisive same as they use to glue the cyclopes on crystals this should give it a look similar to the bakelite insert and i will shape it curved as well Thanks for the photos! a no crown guard gmt is rare even a franken! lets do it it will be a nice watch! Aero

The watch looks good in the photo,but that does not mean that it will be the watch they sell you, price seems a bit low as has been said, buying rolex watches on the internet is risky sometimes the seller may not know if the watch is fake or gen! mabe some member knows of a reliable trusted seller of gens!

Well Said, after all this is what our hobby is all about ,i have been looking for a case to use to build a rolex gmt why not use this case it would make a nice no crown gmt!!! i can see it now in my head with a bakelite pepsi bezel insert!

Wear it well 007!

wonder why im a vintage rolex man!

nice! looks great on a leather strap!!!

im begining to love that tudor!

well today im still on easter holiday so i split the day up wearing these two watches! unmodded thin cased gmt! 2836-2 out of the box! 5512 submariner with a slow beat 2873 eta that used to be fitted to a omega military watch from the 70s this has a 6mm thick homemade acrylic crystal fitted with home made stainless steel retaining ring!

no comment needed! check out my first post on rwg for more photos and details!!!! and i agree with you it would make a good project!

caseback is marked as a 5508 this should be the small crown thin case unique writing of "switzerladn" wonder why they do this sometimes its shiterland or rolexsa (when it should be rolex sa) well one mans junk is another mans tressure as they say!(did i spell that right? Lol! )

Well its about time they made this watch is it 6536 or is it 6538 brevet? we cant see the coin edge bezel, looks good to me but i will have to compare it to my 6538 yuki build! this is my yuki finished project!

Hi fxrAndy I Agree with you on that i found these dials more fragile than the factory dials the parts of the dial that chipped came off clean i mean all that was left was the silver metal finish like i said a little work sanding the rehaunts sharp edges might help prevent this, it would be helpful to know the materials used in the yuki dials one thing i do know the yuki dials ,bezels are made using different materials than the factory ones mabe to give an aged look to the items the bezel inset on yuki looks more like the finnish you would expect on a vintage gen my 6538 insert has a blueish tint to it,it doent look like the factory finished bezel the yuki bezel insert and dial do give a vintage look without the need to vintage them yourself. in fact this vintage look was all that was needed i left the new yuki case to age naturally !

Its a black dial! they are great dials just fragile! i would sand down the rehaunt edges a bit to take away the sharpness i think they will hold up ok its just that i dropped my watch and the shock chipped the dial where it seats on the rehaunt! as a member suggested a coat of varnish might help harden the surface has any member done this?

Good GOd! For that price i would expect it to have a pearl on that insert! at least! i dont care how historical it is no watch is worth that much and you can achieve a close look to that with your frankens! these prices are extreame!and as iv have said before the " tool watch message" has been lost with the result that watches like this end up in collections by persons who dont care at all about these watches its just a get rich scheme to them! they have pushed the price tag of these classic wristwatches way out of reach of the real watch enthuiasts!

Great to see divers watches in water! where they belong i have found that most good reps are ok in water despite the dealers reconmending you keep them away from water,the number one rule is to remember that no watch even a gen is water resistant for ever, one of the reasons that watches were later marked water resistant instead of waterproof! as seen on some old seamasters, and these watches need service and when required replacing seals ect i have used my reps in the swimming pool and the sea without problems i found one of the best ways to check your watch at home is to remove the movement and dial leaving the crown and backcase closed and submerge your watch in a bucket of water overnight! I read somewhere that speedmasters and datonas even gen are only water resistant when the subdial pushers are close and you must never operater the subdial pushers while you are underwater Please correct me if i wrong here! Any members buying the new series 1665 with the superdome crystal have it checked we have found that a few have cracked crystals close to the base mabe caused when the crystal is fitted by the factory we had to replace our crystals with a homemade retaining ring!

Sounds great to me if we can get some clear dial scans then down sizing an oversized clear photo of a dial should give a clear print mabe a clear photo of a gen dial?

my yuki dial is very fragile i dropped my watch and it landed on the crown this caused the dial to chip along the edge about 1mm from 12 to 5 oclock this was mostly due to the sharp rehaunt, i was lucky that most of the chip was under the rehaunt and i found a match to the gloss black from one of my daughters nail varnish set! i dont think that this dial had any kind of etching primer applied, and the finish was applied direct, so i suggest anyone who has a refinished dial the do some sanding on the rehaunt to take away the sharpness, i would suggest applying a little drop of silicon sealer the (clear type) to the watch case and rehaunt lip, where dial edge sits and rests under the rehaunt, let it dry then fit the dial this should act as a shock aborber and offer some protection .

Fantastic work! and love the mesh bracelet! i would like to find out more about this dial printing technique!