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Gen 6mm crowns are cheap and well worth the money. The prices go crazy when you get into the more obscure pieces.

Resurrecting an older topic here, I'm looking for gilt hands now too. I have a set on my Big Crown that are nice but I'd like the minutes hand to be 1/2mm longer or so. The CWP gilt hands come highly recommended, but he replied he only has aftermarket for an ETA 2824 movement. These won't fit a DG or Miyota movement. Can anyone tell me whose hands are next best? I've heard of Raffles' hands but are they full length like the CWP? Does anyone have comparative photos? Any suggestions? It's for a Miyota 8215.

The more I wear this beauty, the more I like it.

Rockin the Big Dazza

Gorilla Glue is the stuff of legends. Amazing. But it also expands dramatically if you use too much and oozes out the sides. Don't have any Gorilla Glue available? Use that old-school expanding construction sealant that comes with a caulking gun. It's essentially the same stuff. Note: DO NOT use a caulking gun to apply construction sealant to your Daytona crystal.

Nooooooooooooooo! Stop! Stop! Never use CA with a crystal. It out-gasses fumes that permanently fog up the crystal on the inside.

I emailed MY and got a one sentence reply, then he went radio silent. Has anyone got any reply from him recently?

In the Duty Free store at the Hono airport there's a $3,800 bottle of scotch. That's good enough for me, I stood in the same room.

I HATE when that happens!

The secret is out!!!! I have the gasoline, now I just have to wait for the lake to thaw.

Nice, but still not the complete answer, I think. My 1675 is gilt, and has gone tropical, but the black of the dial is as brown as my non-gilt 1665, and here's the odd part: the lettering is definitely gilt but it's a bright brassy gilt, not the deep rich orange/honey gilt like my 6536. And take a close look, there are apparent "water drop" marks where it left "gilt droplets" on the brown background (this is why the dial was surrendered to the A.D.) It's almost like it leaked and the droplets affected the lacquer. But how would that reduce the opacity/tint of the background base paint? I definitely agree it would affect the lacquer's gloss finish.

Now go aywayyyy or we shall taunt you a second time-a!

THE most gorgeous 6538 on the planet. But, I have a gilt dial that's gone tropical (1675) and a non-gilt that's also gone tropical (1665). Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Hey.... whatever it takes to accomplish the end result.

That's an interesting theory cc33. I know my vintage guitars have a nice antique "honey" look that the newer ones lack. They used a nitrocellulose lacquer and wiped on many many thin layers. I read somewhere another theory that the paint in some dial batches was fortuitously (to us) flawed. The black is made of red+blue+yellow and over time the blue and yellow faded more than the red, leaving a brown tint to the dial. It seems plausible.

Salmon

Tipping

Busted!!!! Hey if you're desperate to get your 6538 dial to go tropical, no effort is too great!!

Mwahahahahaaaaaaaaa

I'm on it! Now where'd I leave that hammer....

Absolutely astounding! Is that Akira's handiwork? One of us is gonna have to get him drunk and figure out how he does this!

Thanks!

Nice photo! That's my target.