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dsn 6154 on a diet!

Edit: case has been reduced by approx. 086mm overall: 0.48mm off the top and 0.38 off the bottom top reduction required bezel seat height to be taken down bottom reduction was done without altering caseback or having to re-thread case etc slight groove still there for gasket

midcase further work- couldn't resist midcase height reduced from 7.27mm to 6.4mm. Material taken off top and bottom, bezel reduced also.

quick and dirty gen comparison case scaled-up to approx length and midcase height photo of reshaped dsn case needs to be re-taken to get straight (looks shorter but that is photo) lugs look ok if hole was re-located: underside of lugs looks good also. Case would be really super if reduced by around 1mm in height- say 0.8mm off underside and 0.2mm off topside (or 1mm total)

Great photos there!

2 weeks after qc pics, very well packaged

here we go- southy gaposis dial with athaya high-collar hands (lightly vintagised) and cp mod; stock plexi reduced. if mid-case was reduced by 1mm and lug holes moved this would be a serious case...

another step along the route: getting closer... kemmner tuned engine with southy gaposis + athaya high collar double-pencil hands back on with stock plexi cp mod along with plexi to be dropped...it's sort of a 6154 on steriods!

I ordered one of dsn's new 6152 no cg builds recently to see what the case was like. Although the shape is a bit controversial some photos were very interesting. I suspected the case could make an alternative to athaya/river/silix 6154 set. The stock model received is a very nice piece: solid construction, good qualith high-plexi, nice movement and 100% accuracy out of the box. This one had a rolerai dial, push-fit plexi and engraved stick-on plates inside. It really is the small details on dsn's watches that elevate them: the little rubber washer in the cg lever or in this case the dimple on the movement ring that slides into the groove inside the midcase stopping any ring movement internally. Here are a few stock case set images (unmodded on timeband): Notice the excess of material in the lug-ends (at the sides towards the bottom) and the accentuated length of the lugs. These two aspects of this case, the ones that made it an odd shaped case for a 6152, are the ones that both the silix and athaya case fall down in. The one critiscism of the athaya case seemed to be the shorter lugs, and the silix has a lack of material at the lug ends (underside). Both are superb cases in their own right. Obviously athaya case (and river form photos) is the correct thin height so it has a huge advantage on all others due to cost of machining and also labour involved in getting creases. Anyway I wanted to give this a go and see how the stock case would look without any machining and no huge reworking of lugs. The only slight mod atm of the lugs is to counter-sink the hole for the (very nice) vintage spring-bars to make the holes visually bigger (thanks southy for idea!) here are a few in-progress shots nice movement here is a temp mock-up of reshape (almost done) with modded necky plexi. Case has been reshaped with crease all round, crown lightly modded also. Final dial/ hand configuration to be decided and i will probably revert back to a lowered high-plexi (probably gaposis + athaya high hands) My own conclusion is this this case set could be the basis for a seriously good finished case- if someone like nightwatch was to get his hands on this and work his magic, machining top and bottom and also re-threading midcase for caseback- you could end up with a thin case, good long lugs and also plenty of curvature under the crease at the sides. For ocd members you could micro-weld lug holed and re-position also...

more rolerai today!

new 2013 dsn rolerai on timeband today!

beauty and the beast..

Just thought I'd share a few images of the upcoming raffle build over on HF Many thanks to all here who had idea and in particular to necky who finished off the case, and whos modifications brought the build to another level. Originally conceived as a pass-around mod build unfortunately it ended up in my crude hands to assemble! case: - old jackson reshaped by mellons (donated by mellons, final polish by neckyzips) - nightwatch crown-guard assembled by hixxy (donated by hixxy) - neckyzips mods incl. case tapped for m2 screws, vintage crown and brass tube (donated by neckyzips) - nightwatch compression-fit lug bars (donated by mellons) - qplexi + athaya solid caseback + brass movement ring (donated by neckyzips) - very saga sterile dial (donated by mellons) - dsn lightly aged double-pencil hands (donated by mellons) - a6497 with secs pin removed (donated by devildog, service donated by flotigglia) - 26/26 "dow" vintage strap + sewn-in gpf polished buckle (donated by dow) On to some images:

it looks a lot bigger than it wears: at 16.2mm high its smaller than your average fiddy. sheer sides make it look big it is amazingly well-balanced on and v comfortable (doesn't look it) heres a crude side-by-side with an average fiddy case set: looks huge on the flat on the wrist not so still case when it arrived made my autozilla look like a dress watch!

sharks at 1000m!

at the beach...

very nice classic homage

another change- this time on a nice thick stach strap

22mm stach strap for the mille metri today!