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I am building a 16610

I have a case, movement, pointers, dial, crown and Bezel Insert

All i am missing are clamps for the Movement (on the way) and an overlay for the Date Wheel

Who would do a Date Wheel Overlay for a Sub?

I am sure there will be some available but it's tracking down who has them

I have looked at some of the tutorials and various threads on the subject and I have my dial and movement all ready but the date wheel on the movement puts the numbers too far to the right.

Ace! Thanks very much

It's not, its not controversial. It's called fighting the last war. Don't spend money checking shoes, spend money figuring out what the NEXT terrorist is going to do.

If your a frequent flier you can get on a pre approved list to get faster screenings

So if they got rid of the screening the Terrorists wouldn't switch back carrying bombs aboard?

Because of the screening they have to look for new more difficult ways of doing things.

Why do you think the 7/7 bombings in London were on buses and trains rather than aircraft? It doesn't mean we stop aircraft security

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260938485998?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

Looks like an Asian Rep with a 'Russianised' dial.

Just one pair

I need a couple of little clamps to hold a movement in a sub case.

Does anyone sell just a few rather than a job lot of a hundred or so as Cousins and the like do?

Is the case back made out of some new material STANLESS STEEL, i bet Stan's not to happy.

There is an I there, close alongside the N.

I have a steel Sub case back that has an 750 18k gold stamp on it.

I have found examples of imported Swiss Watches with a Swill Makers Mark and a London retailers mark so the mark on this watch is still up in the air.

Wrist Watches were just for ladies up until the war, men had pocket watches. Wrist watches became popular with Officers in the trenches but the only ones available in the UK were for ladies that's why they look quite delicate and 'feminine' After the war it was OK for men to wear a wristwatch as they were then associated with the brave war heroes. By the 1930s Wristwatches outsold pocket watches for men.

OK found out the letter G is the mark for Geneva, that narrows it down

I have found a London mark for SP associated with Imported Watches for 1912. It is S.P. not a plain SP and it is in a rounded shield not one with a raised top like on your example.

Unfortunately it doesn't say who used the mark just 'Imported Watch'

I have a feeling it is a foreign mark already on the watch when imported hence it being positioned apart from the other marks.

Edit to add.

Just did a bit of research. There can't be a Makers Mark added in London as it is imported. That mark will be Swiss.

All that can be put on in London is a date letter, silver 925 purity mark and the import mark.

Could be as it is a swiss movement but they were widely used.

It needs someone who knows what European makers marks are or who the London importers were in 1918.

I am guessing it is a watch imported by a wholesaler and then sold on by a jewellers. It will be the importer who got it marked with the date letter and the Omega London import mark.

If it was silver from london it would be marked with a Lion for Sterling Silver and a Leopards Head for London followed by a letter for the date mark.

The shield looks like the date mark for 1918 a 'gothic' lower case C in an inverted shield

Your Omega mark is for Silver imported into London

That Makers Mark isn't listed as a London maker as it is imported

That's why there is no Lion for Sterling SIlver and no Leopard for London

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see here http://www.silvercol...rhallmarks.html

or here http://www.925-1000....tish_marks.html

Who is the Dealer?

Sand the Rehaut?

Alligoat posts that the MBW case is realy a 5513 case.

I want to put a nice 5513 together, I like the no date Subs.

SO the MBK would make a good base for a 5513 with a dial swap?

WHere do you get an MBW Case Set?

I see he has a set of silver DG hands he says are for an Explorer, they are the same size as a Sub as far as I can see.

Who's case is that? What size of dial does this case take?

+1

I know it needs 150/100/17 according to the info I have found but whre will I get hands that fit?

Same apart from the none chrono dial yes?

Will search