Just wondering what is the oppinion on this watch from the hardcore paneristis?
This "One time in the world watch" could also be phrased as: fake case/fake hands/cannibalised movement
Although with his reputation he can pull off something like that, seems like a cool guy...
But I am just playing the "advocatus diaboli". Would buy it at an instant if I had more playing money
I also wanted to make a swiss ETA 3706 franken.
Bought a gen IWC 3706 (just to get the extra old "T swiss T" dial and hands that came with it ) and also a rep 3706.
But as said here before - had to realise the rep dial is about 1mm larger than the gen, so the gen wont fit into.
This will require some sort of spacer ring to produce the conical rehaut of the gen.
Sold the gen for a Tudor 79280 chrono - the "Poor Mans Daytona".
But if someone is still looking for a new 3706 rep with the rare white subdial hands just mail me...
So here is mine with dial and hands aged, on a historically correct swiss army 1950s backpack. Still not beat up enough, but will do that during my next deployment
Narikaa has (at least had two month ago) an Explorer I with 21j Asian for the correct beat, lugholes and plexy. The lugholes are only drilled half ways from the outside though, I am going to change this the next week. For the dial ageing, I used the the oven method; 250 degrees celcius - the dial took only some minutes, the hands an eternity, seems they don
I vote for real - the base of the hour hand is relatively "small", not like the SSD who has a hour hand base is diameter wise nearly twice as large as the minute hand above (in my opinion the biggest flaw in the SSD)