Nanuq

Also in a 6536/1

Grungy, old, crusty ... just how I like 'em.

Small world, I take the same kind of pics on my commute home too.

I'm very pleased with his tropical brown dial. The text is very sharp and very accurate. I used Freddy's enhanced patination tricks, it looks really nice. I had concerns about the gilt depth rating but cc33 kindly shared some photos showing other gens from the era with the same configuration. Mine is for sale, here's how it came out.

TRC is actually still there. How about we fire the old beast back up again?

You say "attacked with a blow torch" like it's a bad thing! In all sincerity, the dials on all my vintage gens are pristine, though tropical or with discolored lume. The lume on my 1665 is white as snow, like it's been bleached. My only gen showing dial damage is a glossy gilt Sub from 1958. I'm building a 6538 and that's the dial effect I'm going for. I think an appropriately aged watch should look like an old car that has seen a lot of sun and has been washed a few hundred times. No more sharp edges, and lots of surface patina.

Verrrrry tasty!

I ordered a lovely tropical gilt 6538 dial... want it cheap?

Very cool. How's the clarity? It makes me nuts when my lenses have artifacts so I spend big for good lenses. My last pairs were Julbo glacier glasses, two pairs of vintage glass Revos and a pair of glass Ray-Bans I found on the ocean floor off Waikiki.

Tennyson used the phrase "Nature, red in tooth and claw." I'm just back from a long walk up the mountain with my dogs. I brought the 12ga. this trip because there's a LOT of bears around. Going up the mountain I saw two wolves come out of the trees 300 yards away, and angle off across a clearing back into the woods. We kept going, and I stopped to check some bear tracks. I stood up and one of my dogs was halfway to where I'd seen the wolves; the other dog was out of sight. I shouted and whistled, and heard nothing, then off in the trees I heard her screaming and yelping. I racked a round and ran off into the woods to find her. I heard a lot of snarling and her screaming but it was moving. So I kept running trying to head off the movement. I whistled a few times and stopped on a trail I crossed to listen. She had gone quiet and I figured it was over for her. Suddenly I heard noise and whipped around, and it was her running to me. She was exhausted and trembling, but no blood. Off in the trees maybe 80-100 yards away the wolves set up a chorus of yipping, and that deep howl that they do. I kept the 12ga. level and we hiked out, arriving home 45 min ago. Now she's sleeping beside me on the floor. I better change her name to Lucky.

Roger that, cc. He asked me to take that pic, and I laughed out loud as I did. Someone once told me the Greek root for the word "character" means "to scratch." That has an interesting connotation: two stones in a riverbed will bang against each other and grind away until they're both worn smooth with lots of scratches, and a good fit to each other. I don't want to go through life untouched by my environment. I wear my scars with pride. I'm sure I've scarred more than a few people. A scar is a consequence for something you've done. Life is full of consequences, good and bad. It usually hurts when you receive one, and that is a learning experience. Learning experiences bring knowledge, but wisdom is acquired with scars. Judgement comes with wisdom. We can undo some of our actions, but we cannot remove our scars, nor can we remove scars from others. So we set up rules we can agree to, and we try our darnedest to follow them, so fewer people get hurt. And the consequence for breaking those rules is another scar. In the end it's up to each of us how many scars we're willing to wear.

Dude! You should have looked me up! That's combat fishing on the Russian, it doesn't get better than that!

Pffffft, the idea is to go get 'em yourself. Fill some coolers with some nice fat Sockeye fillets. I've eaten waaaaaaay too much salmon, since I learned to walk. I'm sick of it. But a nice Copper Red? Yeah I'm tempted again. 'Specially if it's squaw candy.

Atlantic salmon? *gag* My friend, the Copper River salmon are in and available now. I know it's expensive, but trust me on this one. Get a fresh, nicely oily Red or a big fat King, sear it with crushed wasabi peas, and drink an Alaskan Amber with it. You'll think you died and went to, well, Alaska.

Case in point: my 1675 had a very rare "radial" dial. My Rolex AD called saying he had a gilt tropical dial for me; he intercepted sending it to Rolex as the swap dial for one he had recently got. I could have it but I had to give him a dial to send in. It was a tough choice, and I gave him my rare radial. It was a completely unnecessary choice too, IMO. I can think of no legitimate reason they need a dial for every one they send out. That's part of why vintage parts are getting crazy.

Listen... if you put your ear right up close to it and listen carefully... it's saying "Send me to uncle Nanuq in Alaska, send me to uncle Nanuq in Alaska!" How can you deny its wishes? It wants to come live here!

Deckard, it would be a worthy goal to live a life that earns a salute from a gentleman like that.

Amen, Mike. Amen.

A lot of watches have been reviewed here that make claims we've proved not to be true. I'm sure other rep goods are the same. If it says UVA/B Protected, how are you going to verify that claim for yourself? The zipper will break prematurely on a fake TNF Denali fleece, but it won't blind you. UV protection is something where you have to take their word for it. I'm just not ready to do that.

I agree with Rolexman. Fake sunglasses WILL block visible spectrum light so your pupils will dilate. But if they aren't blocking UVA/B then your wide open pupils are allowing more damaging rays in than if you weren't wearing shades at all. Spend the money. Save your eyes. It's worth it. The last two pairs I bought were vintage ground glass Revos for under $100 per pair. Nothing finer.

This is what I've got, and I like it but...... I think I need black and gilt.

Wow that's a handsome build, I like the large knurling on the crown, most have lots of tiny little ridges.