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Nanuq

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    Yeah I was gonna say those look like the "best quality" Many Quad eyes from MQ. Are you sure those aren't aftermarket/market/market/market?
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    Hah!!
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    The hands were from Classic Watch Parts I believe, and are a very dark/matte gold look, a perfect match for Service hands of the era, with the thicker "Mercedes". They were lumed by Ziggy to match the dial.
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    Thanks! It joins the pantheon of favorite pieces, which are .... two. The other is the one where you did the amazing case work!
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    Pretty sure the white is printed to let the black show through. But hey.... I'm just a simple lad from Alaska so who knows?!
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    I have that Minh dial for sale in another thread, now that I've got the final dial installed. It was initially the best dial I could find. I narrowed my search down to the InGod tropical vs the Minh, and ultimately went with the Minh. Compared side by side with a gen, the fonts and lettering are nearly identical.
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    Yep, that's how the factory did it. There's a similar method for the COMEX logo but with white over black.
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    Those are amazing photos!
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    The CWP bezel is thicker than the other offerings so it has a wider groove, that's all.
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    No worries, dub-dub, I had one here for reference!
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    I've seen some killer builds lately with Helenarou stuff....
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    Here's a DRSD back, straight across Here's a Great White caseback, "curved"
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    The octagonal bent wire piece? Try Natalie at NDT Trading, or Phong or Minh Quy has them. Classic Watch Parts should too. The CWP wire is a little thicker than the others. If all else fails some stiff wire of the right gauge might work, just nip off a length and bend it into an octagon with ends that don't quite meet when it's tucked into the groove.
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    I did a review of the Minh band about a year ago. It was a disaster out of the box but I was able to make it work. Definitely not recommended unless you HAVE to have a rivet 7206. Yuki's is far better.
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    Hmmmmmm.... "Dashing"? "Deplorable"? "Demonstrably Perfect"??
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    Ww, that's a Minh bracelet with a whole lotta elbow grease. Ronin, those are scratches from coral in Hawaii, mostly polished out now (shirt sleeve technique). Thanks gents!
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    Finally I have this finished. It finally looks like it's really 55 years old.
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    You can still make something pretty nice out of a base Silix piece. This is as far as I could take one:
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    Yep Minh does make good stuff. It's the best I could find for my version-1 build.
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    .........and Minh has multiple "levels" from $300 to over $1,000. They get more gilty with price, but still are not made with technique cc33 described. Here is his $300 dial with some Big Dazza ageing texture. It's very good but it's sized for a gen case. This was my starting point for the first version of the Big Gonzo, then it went to Ziggy for a relume to the dial and hands for a more "creamy" look. Before Ziggifying After Ziggifying
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    There's a whole bunch of decisions to make before you go full gonzo with this. If you want to build one as a test case, you can't go wrong with the parts list you've got. My first was like that and I wound up with an Athaya v2 crown (which required some specific case work) and a Big Dazza aging job on the Silix dial. In the end it came out darn close to a gen: Gen 6536/1 Silix build
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