HauteHippie

Good stuff! AAA all the way!

I always get this mixed up, too. I thought his watch was a Swiss ETA 7750.

Sounds like it could be a simple adjustment for The Zigmeister to make. The same symptom on a ETA 7753 of mine was.

Great looking watches!! I'm glad you're happy with the results. I think the lume shot of your 111E might be burned into my retinas!

LOL jetmid. I had to pay to fly Southwest. But, hey, free hotel and seats at the fight aint bad!

The AR looks much better to me in the cdzsmith pic, but still worthy of a better coating. I'd like to see one of these in person, though this probably isn't a watch I'll be buying...

Heh, well I happen to know one of the fighters so it's not costing me.... anything. Anyhow if you see a guy up front wearing a perfect PAM 063, that'll probably be me.

Agree 100%. The prominent blue tint on so many rep watches does not look good or accurate. The color tint should be difficult to see, not prominent.

The AR does perform better on sapphire. How much better, and how noticeable? You'd have to compare them side by side to judge.

I'm in the USA. I will have to check my supplier for the sapphire but it would probably be about $100 USD for the sapphire plus double AR.

If you have the Jimmy gasket, you'll be fine. No, I don't have a double AR sapphire for you. But once you obtain the sapphire, I'll coat it for you.

Someone should give me a bad spelling / bad grammar rating for that post. Horrible. Haste makes waste.

CG should from Angus should fit just fine. I'll be done the same for a project of my own. On the crystal, that could be tougher... I'm not 100% certain on the fit. I do have some Jimmy Fu crystals I can spare, however, if you want one. They're mineral, not sapphire though.

I'll be staying at Cesar's in a week and will definitely be checking out the Torneau. Will be ring side for the UFC Fight Night event at the Palms Saturday night.... main reason for going.

Heh... Just wait until you see my new AR coming out in the next run.........

Very, very nice. And the rant was as good as the pics! My only question is how many unbelievable PAMs does Kruzer need?!?! The Zigmeister, you'll be doing a full overhaul on a 2892/Sopras based PAM for me as well in the hopefully not too distant future!

Nice work and neat photos!

I agree... Whatever the AR is, it's not terribly impressive.

That Fifty Fathoms is a must-rep ! ! !

Me too.

The retail price for a 111H crystal in sapphire is around $40 or so. That is, a generic domed sapphire crystal of appropriate thickness and diameter. So $110 is a great deal for a chunk of real sapphire that size with an entire watch wrapped around it.

Very little compared to a 111H (I or J now) at a PAM boutique. Its main purpose is to allow you to say "Look, my crystal is blue!"

LOL! I didn't know you also spoke French, M!

Maybe you could go vintage on the lume if it were an older matte dial or something. But the SSD is the new model. I had a gen SD for a while, and it sure looked like C1 to me.... Not green.

I am not sure that MIL-C-675 AR is more durable than glass... It could be, but I've never verified this. I put a Jimmy Fu crystal into one of my AR runs, and I could see a difference between it and the sapphire crystals in the run, but there was a definite improvement over no AR even with the sapphire-optimized coating applied. I will gladly do a glass-only AR run any time there is demand for it. FYI, I have now officially changed coating companies. The new company will be used for the upcoming double AR run in early December and for the forseeable future. Two very exciting developments are the following: full aperture coating (i.e. no lip marks), and a higher performance coating. Previously the coating I used produced an average reflectance of 1.25% across the visible spectrum, and less than 1% at the sweet spot (550 nm). The new coating is going to produce less than 0.5% reflectance across the entire visible spectrum which means the crystal disappearing act will be even more profound on double coated crystals. The only difference is going to be that instead of a subtle blue, the new coating is going to have an even more subtle (harder to see) violet tint. So it'll actually be more color neutral. The only time you really see the tint is under florescent lighting, and even then you almost have to be trying to see it - and if you take a trip into an AD, I think you'll find the same situation on gen watches. That is, you're not going to see the color of the AR very easily, but you're immediately going to see what looks like an invisible crystal due to lack of reflections! (Except of course on PAMs where they still only coat the interior)