TeeJay

Welcome indeed

Very nice

Oi you, stop giving away my family secrets!!

Sixx

That's some beautiful work How did you manage to get the cracked indices, it's a stunning feature

I've got a folded-link bracelet for this one, but it's much more distinctive on a Tropic:

That's definitely the look I'm going to go for with my project. I might even get brave and try and grind off the crownguards

I hope all is well for all

Why would one want to wear these? Would have a hard time pulling my sleeve down.

To make up for being hung like a hamster

The earliest versions were released without 'DAYTONA' on the dial. These (along with 6238s) are often referred to as pre-Daytonas.

Thanks for the clarification

I wouldn't like to say about accuracy, but they both look nice, a little vintagizing of the case, crystal and insert, and I'm sure they'd pass muster

I recall that someone here said they put 1 together like that, but I cannot see how it is possible. The pinion alignments differ. A couple of years ago, I posted a comparison pic of 1 of my 7750-powered 6263s next to a gen & the primary difference between them was the location of the subdials (being closer to the outer edge of the dial on the 7750-powered version).

Just found the pic

Out of curiosity, is the presence of the red Daytona text a rep-specific feature, or was it a change in spec mid production run? I only wonder as I removed the text from my dial the other day (I felt it was a bit pale, rather than a rich red) and much prefer it without the text

I'd agree with the GMT Master, as you'll be able to pick up something reasonable out of the box in that price range, where other models might require various parts/modding And happy birthday :good

Cheryl tends to wear a Big Bang Aspen

thats no watch bro

thats a bracelet

And a very comfortable one it is too

what did you with the hands of it T

They're safe in my parts tray waiting till I can get a new movement for the watch I will make this thing work, insha'Allah

Welcome to the party

I´m a little bit scared about this issue cus i´m waiting for my PO to arrive (damn that chinese new year).

What you want to do, is get a pair of needlenose pliars, a sewing machine needle, and a small tack mallet.

Use the pliars to snap off the point of the needle, so you get a tab like this:

Put the pliars on a firm work surface with the opening of the wire-stripper upwards.

Rest the bracelet 'edge on' on the top of the pliars so the 'open end' (which can look like a screw) of the pin is over the opening of the wire-stripper (You may wish to remove the bracelet from the watch prior to this move, and you may wish to put a layer of tape on the side of the bracelet to prevent it scuffing on the pliars)

Take the modified needle, put the tip of the point against the end of the pin, and give the top of the needle tab a gentle tap (very gentle if bracelet is still on the watch) Keep tapping till the needle pushes the pin through a little way (you may need to hit it a bit harder) then use the needlenose pliars to pull the pin free

Repeat the above steps till you have removed as many pins as needed to resize the bracelet

Can't seem to get the time from it... :bangin:

Based on above comments, I'd say the 2 in 20 looks good (not that I'm an expert )

Ok first with a bit of UV in the back ground, comparison watch is a seiko next to it are my 3717 and Ingy, I could still read the ingy after 8 hours in bed this morning before i could barely read it after 8 min so that is am improvement.

I am not happy with the ingy as it was very fiddly to do with the small indexes and it is a bit patchy but it is more functional! The 3717 well ii would say that is as good as a gen. I also did a SOSF but my wife is wearing it for work so no photo of that one.

Ziggy i take my hat off to the work that you do having been trying my self over the past few months with some reasonable results your work is just with our reproch!

Fantastic results

9411 for Thurs... More than anything, to contemplate whether to keep it in the collection or not...

I found the snowflake dial to be an efforless-wear beater, even with incorrect hands, I can't wait to finish mine...

No prizes for guessing what I'm wearing today

Panerai 127. After aquiring one, it became one of the favorites in my collection, sadly, the watch smith took so long to service the movement, by the time I got the watch back, it no longer felt like my property

Oh i just recieved a parcel from Switzerland from a firm called tritec!!!!!!

I may have some photos to add in here soon

Emily's favorite is my 1655, my best friend Nicola's favorite was my 029a... One watch I no longer own, and the other I'm not so keen on wearing

Fantastic project, it looks great Nothing like a little custom work to stand out from the crowd

man tim thats a real cool watch

Pretty slick, isn't it The one I posted first was just a poor-man's version of that one, I just couldn't find the pic of it yesterday I only knew about them having seen Nic Cage wearing one in Bangkok Dangerous

I thought, rather than start a new topic I'd dig this one up... What about watches with no second hand at all?

I know there's some for the ladies, but are there any for the gents?

I have this one, and it's also quartz (not at all high-end though)

Originally, it did have a second hand, but, during the process of luming the dial and hands, well, accidents were made, things best not spoken of really Anyhoo, it now has no second hand... And, because it's quartz, there's no 'heartbeat' to pick up on while wearing it, so impossible to tell if it's actually running or not (other than the time eventually changing...) To be honest, for that very reason, wearing it really creeps me out Yet by very contradiction of that, I have no problem wearing my Daytona case, which not only has no hands, but no movement either: