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I agree with automatico above, shaving down the dial to 26.0 mm was too hasty indeed, especially on a gen dial. Your only option now is buying a cartel case and see if it all works out.

WTF man I had no idea! I'm deeply saddened by this. RIP Rolf, I wish I could have thanked you more for the help and advice you gave me

Last reply I got from her was Oct 2. Did she disappear all.of a sudden?

Dials are painted by bigwaved, maybe he's a member here too.

Thin CB would be more correct, but not as thin as Athaya's All cases have been reshaped and aged. Pic is from a comparison thread I posted a while ago on RWI and HF. I can say I have a thing for 6154's

Athaya is currently the best choice by far. As in any vintage build, case will need quite some work in order to reshape some sensible areas and get the correct finish. Dial wise you need a 1mm thick 39mm wide dial which is not like gen (1.6mm thick, 2 piece construction) but it will look very close to gen if made by the right people. Athaya on top, new River in the middle, old River.bottom

Positive vibes coming to you Rolli, get well soon!

Such a beautiful watch! Nicely done

Remove the outer bezel, take the friction ring and bend it in four places. Don't worry to bend it too much, do it as much as you can. Press the outer bezel back in place. Voilà.

Thank you gents, much appreciated!

Vintage 5513 Submariner A slightly different take Hello gents, what I am presenting tonight is my latest 5513 build. I was inspired by the dial to give the watch a very worn look, with some heavier than usual marks and scuffs. A real heavy duty watch. Non-matching hands are reasonably common in the vintage Panerai world, while they are quite rare if not non existent in the Rolex world. I thohght they were looking just right in this build. What do you think? Here is the parts list: - Cartel donor watch reshaped, aged and polished. Lugs drilled for 2mm springbars - Sternkreuz low dome T19 plexi - Cartel insert faded to almost ghost, no pearl - Vietnam dial with dark mustard markers, beautiful unique dial - JK hands relumed and aged - Strap made by an italian strapmaker found on ebay Some more pics: Hope you enjoyed the reading and pics

Just trying to keep the budget under control

Vintage Panerai 6154 The Claw Yes, I built another 6154. I don't know how many of these watches I built but no matter what each time I found it a pleasure for the eye and the soul. It started as a fairly simple 6154 but I often mention each build has its own life, and this one was not different. I think of it as "the claw". I did not mean to crack the crystal, it was totally random. For some reason I thought placing the built case including plexi in the ultrasonic cleaner with some alcohol I use for cleaning purposes was a good idea. Turned out it was, but for a different reason than I thought Luckily, for the rest it all went smooth more or less. Bigwaved provided a nice dial, Athaya nice hands, Dellone a good Molnija with Rolex bridges, Orloff a great strap and voilà: another nice HF build! More pics: That's all for now, see you soon with more stuff. Hope you enjoyed the reading and pics

Wow i dont think steph_dexter's purpose was to see his boxes sold as gen... scammer needs to be reported.

Hey Rolli, wishing you a speedy recovery

Wow

I would be in in heartbeat

That would be my idea, as soon as Nightwatch releases his long awaited 6152/1 no CG case sets. Are you with me in this?

"So, are you going to post these for Valentines Day?!? See, it just goes to show we all can find true love on this day. And it is called a Panerai. " Double 6154 red indices build I have a friend on the other side of the pond, in the US. He's a guy I met here on the forum, we share the same passion/obsession for Panerai, namely the vintage ones. I had the chance to build a few watches for him. During the last couple of years we kept in touch and kept discussing about vintage PAMs, we found out we had the same taste and made a few projects become real. This is one of them, one of these watches is mine and one is for him, both built at the same time with the same parts and only slight differences. The idea for this thread's title came from him. When I sent him the pics and told him I was ready to ship it was a couple of days before Valentine's and he came out with this phrase. It made me laugh out loud but I found some strange poetry in it so I decided to use it So much for the introduction, let's talk about the watches They are both based on the Athaya case set as it is just my favourite case. The case was lightly reshaped, but the most time was spent on the refinishing. I can't even remember how many times I sanded, beated, brushed, polished, stressed these cases before I was happy with how they looked. More than a couple of weeks passed since I shipped the watch and my friend received it already. He says pics don't do it justice so I think my goal was reached Dials are from Bigwaved. I'm not a dial painter but imho the red indices are maybe the hardest to get right, but Bigwaved's work is always at the top of the spectrum, perfect resin fill, perfect lume application, perfect finish, everything so damn perfect it almost makes me jealous I can't do such beautiful work myself For these builds we chose to go for DSN's new movements, they just look fantastic no less. Finally the straps. The one with beige stitching is from my friend Alfio/Bakeka, I had many from him and this one is as usual a great quality strap made with a heart. The one with red stitching is from Betmen, it's the first strap I got from him and it won't be the last. He's such a great guy to work with, he has an eye for details you would never consider in a strap but which really make a difference in the finished product. The guy is top notch but you already knew that I'm sure And some more pics: That's all for now, more builds coming soon. Hope you enjoyed the reading and pics

Glad to hear the guys got their money back. Good job!

Well mir36 your collection is out of this world, but I have a couple from rolli myself

Excellent! It was a while I did not see some pre-A love Link to these case sets?

Going for real accuracy is out of question unless you're ready to shell out thousands. Tbh I would approach the build using a 6536 case. Budget will determine whether yuki, cartel or vietnam will be the choice. Add glld hands, an insert and a proper gilt dial and you'll be very close to your goal imho.

Nice result, well done!