mjmurphy926

Sorry to point this out, but is it just me or does the upper crown guard have kind of a "hitch" in it? I've thought I've noticed this on other WM9 v2s. It looks to me like the inside of the upper crown guard has a nice angle to it until it is about hit the case where it drops straight down.

How does it look in person?

Still a gorgeous watch, just an observation.

Yes, that is it! That is my "hometown" arena!

Yep...Awesome venue!!

I got married there. There is a chapel just outside the Amphitheater. Beautiful place!!!

Beauty!!

It contains petroleum distillates. It might have silicon, I don't know. It works way better than the silicone spray imo. The petro evaporates and leaves that waxy/teflon stuff behind. Reapplication will be necessary eventually.

What I like best is the viscocity after the job is done. I never felt oil on my wrist. The bracelet for lack of a better word felt more "gen".

No seeping onto my boxset. This is about 2 days after the lube was applied. It was in the box for a day or so. I just picked it up to check-

Thanks...I'll give it a try.

I saw RUSH with .38 Special at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on March 14 and 15 1980.

Me and a bunch of buddies rented a U-Haul truck, got a keg and a bunch of bean bag chairs and drove from Sacramento to SF for the weekend shows. We slept in the back of the U-Haul. It was AWESOME!!

BTW - What the hell...is Geddy doing his laundry in the Limelight video?!?!

Yep...She's a beauty alright...

Enjoy!!

Link to crash...

A sad day for me and many others...I worked at this company for a number of years...and know most everyone...I feel a real loss.

I'm sorry to hear this Rob...Very sad indeed.

My condolences and prayers to all the families and friends.

It looks great, well done.

RG

Thanks R.

I've reevaluated my current projects and think you will be seeing this one very soon.

BTW - Thanks for the tip on crystal install...I worked out great!!

I do think the idea of a trip to the The Zigmeister spa is excellent. I know I'm still very happy with the relume on my matte dial 16800- it just makes for a fun watch. And with a movement service, you're good to go for the next 4-5 years.

Yep alli...I think it's heading North in May.

That's definitely a very nice job on the crown guards. I like the flat line straightness along the edge of the case and they've been thinned just right. Great job. Of course the rest of the watch looks good also.

Thanks Alli!! Pretty high praise from someone who knows stuff.

Ah well those end links are much crisper than my noob end links.... See below.

Wow chief, that's a purdy watch!!

The thing I like most about the end links on my noob are that they fit nice and tight in the WM9 case. If you look closely though, the center of the links are not that crisp. Look at the top pic of the top end link.

Nice pics, your pearl looks very interesting, got any closer pics of it? perhaps through a loupe or something?

The pearl is from Watch Material.

Sorry, I don't have a macro lens to take closer pics, but I can tell you that it's the closest thing out there to gen. I have a gen pearl that will eventually end up on this watch as soon as I find a satisfactory insert, and other than a slight color difference (gen is very white and whereas this is kind of yellow), this pearl is pretty damn close to gen.

You can do a search on Watch Material to find more info. They're pretty popular around here.

Very nice sub! Great CG work. I need a WM9 bracelet. Those end links are to die for.

Actually Chief, That's a 2 year old noob bracelet!!

It came with the old solid mid link wm9 v1 bracelet. I did put the clasp from the wm9 on the noob bracelet though.

And thanks for the complement.

I purchased this watch from a fellow member here. It is PT's ROLEX SUBMARINER 2008 SUPREME EDITION 1:1.

When I got it, I was really impressed with the gen like appearance of the case, but upon closer inspection, I noticed the crown guards were covering the crown too much and set out to trim the inside of them. Once I was happy with the inside of the CG, i noticed the upper CG was considerably fatter than the lower!! How does this happen? Also, I noticed that the rehaut was kind of rough with several nicks and the date wheel had 1/2 the numbers too low in the window.

Discouraged, I threw it in my watch box and forgot about it.

While reading through some of BK threads, I saw a thread where he showed how to trim the outside of a CG that is too thick, so I decided to give it a shot.

I also decided to try to clean up the rehaut and install the date wheel from my v1 SSD that had all the dates centered in the window.

The CGs took a lot of work, but came out pretty nice I think. The rehaut came out nice as well.

I also wasn't too thrilled with the grayish print on the dial and decided to swap the dial with a noob dial I have had laying around for years. I also installed a watch material pearl, Clark's crystal, a noob bracelet, but I kept the wm9 clasp.

Chieftang says he still considers the noob dial as the best available (including the wm9 v2). I can't say I disagree.

I'm so happy with this watch, I think I'm going to send it to The Zigmeister for movement service and Lume.

What do you think?

My experience building franken Datejusts is that the 3035 closely approximates the eta 2836-2, particularly in crown position and the 3135 is close to the 2824-2. The fact that BK is coming out with a YM with the 2824-2 and correct crown position confirms the similarity between the 3135 and the 2824-2.

Then wouldn't a wm9 case be a good solution for the OP's 3035?

I use a Dremel (running at the slowest speed) with green rouge on a soft cloth wheel (these do not usually come with standard polishing kits & must be purchased separately).

Freddy,

Do you have a source for the cloth wheels? I haven't been able to find any that are satisfactory.

Thanks,

Mike

I don't really get what is so gay about the rainbow.

I guess Ween said it best:

"Many colors in the homo rainbow

Don't be afraid to let your colors shine

Many colors in the homo rainbow

Show me yours. I'm gonna show you mine"

Some say the Gays ruined the rainbow for the rest of us...

Why do you think the University of Hawaii sports teams are now known simply as the "Warriors" instead of the "Rainbow Warriors" as they used to be?

I have no problem with anyone's sexuality, just a humorous topic to me...

CJ,

Check this item on the bay...Don't know what you still need, but I thought I'd throw this out there in case you need these parts:

380108511442

Mike

Good info P4.

Do you know if it's silicon based?

I use this stuff:

I wonder if it's similar. This spray goes on wet but dries is seconds leaving a dry silicon film.

It's great on bracelets, but maybe even better on my wm9 sub bezel. Makes for a buttery smooth, slightly resistant, soft clicking bezel movement.

I'd be very interested in 2 overlays 3135 for noob dial and ETA 2836-2!!

Thanks,

Mike

Looks nice Phoband!!

Is that Zebrawood? That's a nice choice.

How about purpleheart?

My favorite wood for pen making is cocobolo.

Fun hobby isn't it?

I think that rep certificates are a step too far and in my opinion only required to mug some unsuspecting uniformed individual off. This is a part of this hobby that should not be encouraged in my opinion.

i do agree..

There is no function for fake papers except to fool unsuspecting buyers

+1

Okay last one (wish I could edit my posts). I just don't want to do work today.

Hey Brodie...How about trying the sub dial hands again, but not the entire hand, just the "football" (the part surrounding the lume).

Oh...And AWESOME job Rob!!

If you press the retaining ring over the crystal, you will break it.

You have to grind down the inner circumfrance of the retaining ring, until the ring fits down aprox 1/2 way down the side of the crystal. This will leave just enough tension to secure it, but not too much that it will crack the crystal.

If I were to guess, right now you can just barely fit the retaining ring on the crystal...

RG

You guess right R...Maybe I can send this along with my appointment in May (UPO) to have you do it?

Let me know.

Thanks,

Mike

I just received a Clark's crystal for my WM9 v1 sub. I'm in the process of installing it but noticed that the gasket on the Clark's is thicker (bigger circumference) than the WM9 stock gasket making the retaining ring a tighter fit.

I was able to press the retaining ring on the stock WM9 crystal/gasket by hand, but no way the Clark's will go on that way.

Can I just use a press to install it or do I have to mod something?

Thanks,

Mike

email Josh or Andrew and ask them if they can sell you an insert. It'll have the same pearl (which isn't that bad IMHO) and it will cost you about $40 if I remember correctly, but they should be willing to sell you one.

Mike