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Thank you N! I'm so happy to finally be able to wear and enjoy it. It's been an interesting ride to say the least but it all came together and the ebay dial saved the day

Thanks E, I won't be swimming with it unfortunately, don't trust these old models with only twin lock I believe, and old crystals. Specs r Minh case and crown Gen Bezel and insert Gen t-17 and 1030 movement Redial done using an original plate Michael Young hands Gen rivet band

Yes Jacek is one of the good ones. I got my 5508 from him. He's honest and straight forward and a pleasure to deal with.

Really, cool thanks! I haven't checked in the past few days

thank you all

Hello, just wanted to show off the final product. I'm pretty happy with it. I thought I bought gen hands on ebay but a vrf'er informed me that they were fake, so I cancelled the transaction. I think if I can ever find them, the gen hands would be the icing on this cake! On to the next...

Thanks for all the support, it helps. I told him I melted the first dial so lets see what happens he will prob say it was a 300$ dial and he will refund 700$ but it was a valuable lesson learned. I will not buy dials from him any more. I will not recommend him anymore and I certainly won't have blind faith in the high end dealers anymore

Yes but just to clarify he wants me to send him the two dials back before he does, I put the first one in the oven for fun after he sent the second and told me to keep both. Now he wants them back so before he refunds so I'm not sure what to do, I'm sure ill figure it out. Lesson learned.

He offered my $ back I'm just mad

I'm so tired of him thinking he's smarter than I am. He sends me an email saying 'what's wrong that's the dial from my site check yourself and compare'.. So I do, and guess what, he removed the dial I ordered and spent a month staring at, and replaced it with the pics of the cheap one. So he thinks ill look and say oh yes that's what I ordered???? I feel like ringing his neck http://vintagewatchesmq.com/minhquy/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=640&category_id=98&keyword=6538&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1 So now the dial I paid for and ordered isn't even on his site anymore!

I going to send the new dial guy a deposit for a few dials, maybe a 5514 comex as one of them and make a new post to show the progress along the way. He said I will get computer scans to approve before printing the dials so it'll be fun. With everyone's help with the qc we can get the perfect 5514 dial and a few others including a 6536 red depth and 6538 four line I am going to make. He already has the file for the 6538 two line that I got on ebay so he should be able to reproduce that one as well.

No 3-d whatsoever. It's printed with an inkjet as you suggested. That's why I put the first one in the oven, it's a crap dial. Worth 50$ maybe.. I don't really know what to do with Minh but i so so glad that I had the presence of mind to buy the 'eBay dial. Now I can just take whichever high end dial he actually has.

Heading over is just about your only option at this point imo. I wouldn't trust him with 5 cents anymore. If you can actually touch, and look at his stuff in person at least you'll know what your getting.

Lol, ya I guess except he doesn't want them back! They're that cheap. I have no idea what he thought would happen especially the second time, isn't that the definition of insanity??

He sent me this one twice now as if I'm a complete newbie

Yes rep dial, but it's supposed to be made using old techniques and its supposed to look like this

He hasn't mentioned a price yet, ill email back saying I'd rather keep my plate and use one of his. Ill ask for the price including deposit and get back to you when I get the response

Thanks, and my pleasure. I emailed the new dial guy, Ivan from Swissdialco about making me a James Bond dial. He responded with this, Hi, your dial is quite beaten, I could clean some of the brown shmutz off and then either relacquer and relume or just relume, but the main issue is that quite a lot of the gilt text has become marred as the black background deteriorates and shows the gilt around the text it becomes merged and a bit messy and that is impossible to repair. Also often during cleaning this effect becomes worse depending on the stability of the black. Sometimes it literally just rubs off. results are often disappointing doing this.... The base itself looks ok and not damaged so I could either use this to work with from scratch or better for me do a part exchange on this dial and I use one of my own original Beyeler plates that I have cleaned and have ready to prep for the work...I am doing 2 others like this next week so it would be good to get your project tagged with these others then I am focussing on one model...and we get better results. The way I work is that I take an ititial deposit, and send you an artwork proof to approve digitally. Then I proceed to restore. You tell me what type of lacquer sheen finish you'd like and what colour lume ...we can match to a set of hands or I can send you a chart and you choose the colour from that. Lume can glow or we have developed a lume that does not glow. This is popular on these older dials as 50 years on they really would not glow much at all. So it seems that he can make a dials with old plates that we provide or he can provide them. More of a custom made process but why not for that kind of $. His dials are very well made so if anyone has a project involving a James Bond dial don't buy from Minh pm me and I can help you through the process of getting one custom made.

As some of you know I spent 1000$ recently on a Minh dial for 6538. He tried to pull a fast one by sending me a shit version of the one ordered and then when confronted said "oh sorry my staff sent you the wrong dial" and proceeded to send me the one I ordered. Well, it was stuck in customs and finally released and delivered this morning. Low and behold he sent me the exact same shit dial like the first. I just sent him an email asking for my money back which I doubt I will get but a word of warning for anyone doing a project with him or buying a dial, you probably won't get what you are paying for. I'm so glad that I bought that backup dial from ebay. It has been extremely frustrating to say the least. Minh used to be trustworthy but not anymore.

My inbox isn't full, I think it's a glitch, ill pm you but I can't sell that one. Made a promise to jag.

I believe that's a gen

I can't get over that pic, it's perfect. It's amazing that you can just step outside put your ski's on and off you go. The last time I was cross country skiing I had a great time,

That is one hell of a nice collection! I especially love the flake's and actually all your tudor's. really impressive stuff, and that Patek is tasty!! enjoy them all

I can't wait! That looks really great, the insert with gen pearl looks amazing. Very cool