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Hi afaik ti cases gone One build for sale on homageforum for $2000 There is a sterile esdee steel for sale on wus for $1600 These have wr to 600m River also supplies nice steel versions sterile or logo for $400 Wr only 2atm

Crown guard mod with hand files- remove crown and stem etc Patina with carrs brass black

It's getting bad. Ever since i saw the ennebi decima mas i liked the case. I have looked at the shapes on and off for some time, checked the piggy bank and come back disappointed. http://forums.watchuseek.com/f7/introducing-decima-mas-watches-26438.html Then came esdee's mille metri which cast a long shadow over all ennebis... Fast forward to 2013 and Maranez release the Bangla, very similar to the decima mas. Also as the bronze mille metri is the only variant i haven't owned (there are others now also!) I decided to go for the brass bangla. It arrives and boy it was a beast- here is is on its stock strap weighing in against river's steel mille metri one disappointment is the bezel is more conservative: unidirectional but is firm and beefy. Here is the naked mechanism: The bangla comes nicely packaged with 2 buckles, s2 straps and a very nice thick rubber "isofrane" type strap also. I had a nice 24mm one ready to go and a bronze sub-buckle so off with the stock ones! Also i wanted to patinate the case so tried liver of suplur... 2 hours very little so had to resort to more drastic alchemy. Here is the patinated case with strap and buckle: Barely on one hour the image and the ennebi started to haunt once again. It's at this point you realise you have a problem- new watch in less than a day ad it's being taken apart. Anyway managed to get a few hours on my own (rarity) and..... The Maranez Decima mas was born!!!! Probably as close as I will get to the original for a few years... Here is patinated finished reshape WRISTIE

v1 case turned out well reshaped am looking forward to getting his v2 and doing a swaparoo with southy's amazing pre-v dials after a little elbow grease....

Brilliant! I love it!! Who did this originally? New project...

Case looks interesting Imho pre v shaping tricky- only a little material needed to be removed Vintage in a way us easier more room for error as more material needs to be removed

saying goodbye to an old friend...

you know the answer....

saying goodbye to an old friend...

I have a ti mille metri I wear it every day The second watch i change for occasionally is another ti mille metri, a destro You will either love it or hate it. If you love it it casts a long shadow on a collection.

cali mm on new rubber today

ti + bronze http://www.maranez.com/bangla.php

Wow some reserve here... Could be the fabled asian 8 day movement here!

Here is an initial reshape of a pair of legno cases When these came out i got a steel one but had to sell on to fund a build so it was great to get an opportunity to have a go at these two cases. First off the brass is more similar to gen dimensions- however both are well put together cases. Here is the first pass (98% done) on brass case set- side/by/side with the steel stock case Brass is very nice to reshape- softer and easier but also one can go too far very quickly. I think will look better not highly polished with a few file-marks: will add when it patinas etc. apologies for bad iphone images Update: final pass on cases done: legno brass- legno steel

Great in depth review thanks for posting

Athaya Rad (3 piece) reshape Here is a reshape of an athaya 3 piece rad case set. Stock case set is very nicely put together and great quality: crown and tube is super. here are some images of stock case set Reshape to concentrate on getting curve along top and bottom as well as trying to get a crown seat along side- slight one carved out here One of the drawbacks of a lot of rad cases is that they are not "square" enough but by rounding centre more and smoothening out towards lug tips this makes case look more "square" or gen like. Case now going off to get lugs micro-welded for complete job!

bronzo without strap 168g (with crystal) line up- ti cali lhs, bronzo sterile centre, ti logo (with crystal) rhs

The dow waterproof sharkie is the most comfortable strap on the mm Dow does an even better version with a sandblasted elias logo prev buckle

new ti mm logo dial on dow modded budda jones sharkie with sterile pre-v!!!

here are weights: ti cali mm with bonetto cinturinti rubber and plexi mod: 105g new ti mm logo dial with esdee crystal and vented rubber strap 136g new ti mm logo dial with esdee crystal and dow/budda jones sharkie with sewn-in pre-v 135g