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1 hour ago, madasboot said:

Hej Lo’

https://ibb.co/rQ8LhkN

 

Happy new lunar year!

the end of my 1016 journey ended last week with some self made straight end links...

yours would look great with them

cordiale saluti

marco

 

Hello  nice work on the build.

I am looking for a set of straight end links in 19mm like yours...  any help would be appreciated  

17 hours ago, taekim said:

Anyone building this? I've been looking everywhere!

 

I have one that I built a few years back.   

 

Raffles case set 

raffles dial 

raffles hands

dg2813 movement 

WSO Bezel and crystal with gasket 

raffles bracelet 

includes rep box 

gen booklet 

gen calendar card 

 

 

I am considering selling if you're interested.  Dm me if you are interested 

 

 

 

It looks great. Congrats on a fine build. Age the hands and lume on the hands and it’s perfection.


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@bartcordell. Fantastic work my friend. That dial looks amazing. I need to add a 5500 to my collection I think.


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Some of you may recall my first attempt with customizing a Raffles dial

This was the first one..

Before and after.

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Then I came across this gen on ebay....and I was in Awe with the dial..



I had to replicate something similar the water damaged / tropical look is spectacular

So I ordered another Raffles dial and went to work..

results :






Its not exact but it does have the same feel to it...I really like how it turned out.

The hands could be aged a bit more to match the dial but other than that I think its pretty cool.

JMB Ver 2 Case
Raffles dial
Raffles hands
Eta Clone 2824
Clarks T21 domed crystal

Keep an eye on the M2M forum as I think I might be clearing this and a few others out of my collection to fund some future builds..

Comments and questions always welcomed.

Thanks for looking.

Well done brother. It looks the part and is now an inspiration for my future build when Athaya complete their case sets. Fantastic work. Wear it well.


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bumping this up to see if this ever got finished...

I also would be interested in a complete case set.  look fwd to seeing progress...

 

This post is way old news but I figured I would update it as I had recently completed a commando build.

 

Recipe :

Raffles 34mm tudor case  with tudor solid caseback and rolex crown

solid caseback sanded down to remove tudor engraving and given a light aged polish

modified bezel to accept Yuki Domed crystal  AF-294  ( ID of bezel needed enlarging) 

yuki dial - aged with translucent airbrush paint 

hands from Ofrie  part number HAN- 6595   (eta hands) 

eta datejust hand 

eta 2824 clone

raffles 19mm rivet bracelet -  ( proper rivet bracelet on the way ) 

2 very minor differences in my build to gen.  the opening in the corrnet could be slightly larger 

the hour hand is 1mm too long. 

for under $500 in 2020  you cant go wrong   its a sweet lil piece and has been getting alot of wrist time.

Voila 

 

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, alligoat said:

Is the price $108.75?

Interesting how they refer to them as radiant markers- by 69-72 they were tritium of course. 

 

 

Yup   it was the cheapest rolex offered at that time.....

I think when they say radiant  they are meaning that the markes radiate or glow in the dark  but yes you are correct it was tritium at the time 

On 7/31/2020 at 2:07 PM, Mbari said:

Brilliant, subscribed!

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this thread is 3+ years old .  He is done with the build and has probably sold it off....lol 

Ill play. 

Over the last few years I have recently gotten into firearms..and talk about  appropriate timing considering the current situation of society.

 

No pics of my rifles but here is one   1016 with some 7.62 x 39 surplus  ammo for my sks 

and a pic of my sks with tapco kit .  

 

This is an interesting topic and one that has been clearly overlooked by the watch community   It would be interesting to know what watchmakers do with all this radium lume dust and how they treat it .  I would like to think that when they do a relume they are wearing ppe and doing it over a vent hood however that just means that the particles are trapped in the filters or ducting .   a little can go a long way in this case   I think this topic has been swept under the rug so that not to scare off the potential buyers of vintage watches...if it was considered and investigated  I think more people would reconsider vintage watch collecting which would be bad for business.....

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Nicely done.  I think the commando is perfect in a 36mm size  

 

Being an explorer aficionado   I had to have a commando in my collection.

 

I had one member on RWI working on a commando decal dial for me but  I think they stalled out on the project or busy with other projects.

 

Cruising Yuki's site one day  I found that they also offer a commando dial .  my impulsive nature took over and I ordered one.

it doesn't come with hands like many of the other dials they offer but I bought hands from Ofrie that are the closest available  

 

My formula. :

 34mm case set with tudor solid back and rolex 5.3mm crown  from Raffles.

- sanded down the tudor engravings on the caseback and gave it a light polish.

yuki domed plexi ( ID of bezel needed to be enlarged to fit the domed plexi .  a few mins work with a dremel 

Yuki dial   

Ofrei hands set 

seconds hand -  datejust handset - ebay / aliexpress - dont recall

clone eta 2824 movement .

raffles 19mm rivet bracelet 

 

I bought the white lume dial and then aged it and the hands with airbrush paint  so that the hands and dial lume would match.

assembly and voila :

 

 

On a 7.5" wrist 

 

My sweet spot for watches is 36-38 and I was really apprehensive of trying 34mm watches as I thought it would look like I was wearing a ladies watch...however if you wear it a bit loose it looks fine and feels great!!  light on the wrist and very comfortable , especially in the summer heat.    This piece has been getting alot of wrist time lately and when I do put on my 1016 it almost feels unnecessarily big..... I know , crazy.  right?

 

 

The one thing about the raffles cases is that they are said to be fully functional with an eta 2824 and they are 11.5 | linge  however with the solid caseback  it is too tight to allow the rotor to spin.  Its fine on this build as it is a handwind reference anyway but  I wonder if anyone else out there had been able to get their rotor to spin with this case set.

@pompompurin had suggested to dremel the inside surface of the caseback and sand down the height of the rotor, to which I will be attempting on a ranger build this coming week but I am not using a dial spacer at all and the dial is attached with dial dots.   

 

comparing my build to a gen commando there are a few tells.

 

cornet on yuki dial is slightly off....the base of the crown is not as squared off as the gen , nor is the opening the proper size.   biggest tell .

the ofrei hands appear to be slightly narrower and the hour hand is a bit too long compared to gen

 

All things considered to be able to own such a rare and now quite  expensive watch  for $300 is a bargain as far as i'm concerned 

(gen for comparison) 

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I came across this seller and dial on ebay a few weeks back  he had one listed and he also had a commando for auction (6429 with this dial and dj hands) 

 

 

It is the closest I have seen of the two options presently available online 

once the dial sold I contacted him to see if he had any more but he said no.  however it is still on the site?  I

 

I think I would upgrade to his dial to have my build one step closer  in accuracy 

 

Any new 14270 builds ??