HauteHippie

Anyone whose is delaminating... are you going to try fixing it??

No.

"Tritium, tritium, everywhere..." Samuel Taylor Coleridge? 'Tis beautiful indeed.

And the crowd wept....

We're not worthy, W... We're not worthy!! Very beautiful piece. Wear that one well!

As mentioned in the other thread, solid sapphire 5mm is not going to be cheap. I suspect this thing is repairable. You'd just need to separate the two pieces, clean off the mating surfaces, and reglue with the proper adhesive.

Marty. This is very common based on what I've read on the forums about Kent Parks. Kent will disappear off the face of the earth, stop answering emails for months on end, but you will get your watch back eventually.

Ya, 5mm would be an expensive chunk of sapphire. I'm not surprised they went with a lamination, but this is not the first crystal lamination we've seen either, and they've never screwed up like this. Odd. Anyhow, if it were me, I'd simply heat it up, split the pieces apart, and put 'em back together with some proper UV crystal cement. E.g. "Crystal Clear" UV cement by Duro:

How thick is this ploprof crystal, I wonder. Thickness, even more so than diameter, does seem to play a big role in the cost. So my guess would be they'd rather pay a factory laborer $0.10 an hour to CNC a jig that allows them to register a thin sheet of sapphire on top of inexpensive glass with the proper alignment to fit the watch. Once they have the jigs, they can knock these things out with cheap materials that delaminate in water. And it's a solution that does seem to achieve the right look if you never get it wet. And it reminds me of the original UPO crystals. I still think there is something funky with those crystals, which are among the thickest out there. They were originally 3.3mm (now most I see seem to be under 3mm though) and while not a two piece lamination, definitely questionable. Whatever they are, the failure rate for recoating AR is extremely high with those, and I've never seen this happen on any other sapphire crystal. Another thick one is the 187 crystal. But this seems to be legit sapphire, and probably the highest quality rep crystal out there. Heavy, coats beautifully, and is crystal clear. Dunno...

Boy, that one looks believable.

Ooer. Lovely, just lovely. And, wow, on the vintage tint job by our resident artist. Keep me in mind when you get tired of it. W can't get first crack at 'em all!

Sorry to see you go.... but I know you will be back.

LOL

This 5500 year old shoe is in better shape than a few in my closet.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100609-worlds-oldest-leather-shoe-armenia-science/ Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News Published June 9, 2010 A Manolo Blahnik it isn't. Still, the world's oldest known leather shoe, revealed Wednesday, struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. "It is astonishing," Blahnik said via email, "how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!" Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an early shoe tree, the 5,500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preserved

I use Dremel #414 felt wheels.

Not everyone... just the rude ones. I know what you mean though, and have often noted the very same pattern with PMs. But, at the same time, I know I'm probably guilty of the same, partially due to being buried in PMs from time to time, losing track, and then clearing out my PM box. Seems I'm always teetering on the edge of a 100% full inbox, and sometimes end up clearing out unread messages in hurry. So perhaps I'm not the only one with a reasonable excuse for being guilty of it. Either way, though, it can wear on you and get frustrating once it becomes a pattern, and I can certainly sympathize.

Here's the polishing station in one corner of my workshop. Not glamorous, but it gets the job done. I'm on my 3rd Dremel, and I go cheap now. They seem to burn out about every 5th AR run. Here's a 2Geek AR crystal I took in for repair. Note the coating flaking in the middle and near the edge: About 20 seconds of dremel work without any polish has removed a bit of the AR on the right side: Got out the polish and finished cleaning her up nicely... ready for a brand new coating:

Yes. They reduced the size of the SIM card to create more space for a slightly larger battery. Though, I suspect you won't be falling out of your chair over the amount of improvement. But it is an improvement nevertheless.

Multi-tasking capable: CHECK Operates on a non AT&T network: NOT YET I'll hold out a while longer. But it's nice to see the improvements coming. Google bursting on to the scene has been a win/win.

This thread needs a theme song..... http://commercial.wavethemes.net/cola1a/pepsi-76-spirit.wav And a bumper sticker....

Entertaining thread!

Absurd. Glad I only paid $390 for my brand new 24mm ProII for the SA!!

Wow so I guess this thing is further from 1:1 than I thought. Great post, BTW. Meant to say that in the first response!

A couple questions... 1. Do these paper clip bits stay in place when rotating the bezel? I guess I'm not picture how they could because the end of the screw would have to protrude through the hole on the inside if you want the screw heads flush with the edge of the bezel on the outside, and then I don't see what would be "fixturing" these paper clip bits in place. 2. You said the V3 is 1mm larger than the V2?? In which dimension is there a 1mm discrepancy? Outer case width?

The custom turned out pretty well. I think I know where you had it done, and I'd say you're lucky it turned out as well as it did.... if you know what I mean. ;-)