frogfalls

great watch, congratulations!!

Very nice!

amazing!!! congratulations!!

unfortuately my vacation in italy is over, but it was great.

and at least I made one picture of the beach...

I Love that watch !!

That's simply HOT!!!

Wear it well!

Thanks Eton

simply beautiful!

Thanks for your words, Merlin.

looks nice mate wear it well

Thanks mate,

btw: Congratulations for the young Germany team,they played very weell. I believe that in the next World Championship, Germany will be the team to beat

Very very nice pencil-lead-like finish. It looks so smooth!

I'm always so scared to wear my PVD watches in fear of scratching off or chipping the coating, but then again... it brings more character to the watch with age.

Wear it well!

I know what you mean my friend :-)

Hi There

I would like to put some pictures of my 202a, showing how looks like the Zyggy's PVD. I've seen some post for this model with DLC coating,I have to say that personally I prefer the PVD, I know that DLC is more resistant to scratches but the texture that this PVD has is amazing..

Congratulations for that beauty W.

Rob's PVD coating is amazing!! He built my 202A with that PVD coating and It's perfect

Only one in this category.... so far

Cheers

very nice collection!! I love your submersibles.... I must confess that is my weakness

I've just found this;

http://panerai.watchprosite.com/show-forumpost/fi-717/pi-3599836/ti-579011/s-0/

click on any of the links to get a full description.

Cheers,

Hi

I got mine from watches24seven last year. it came with 2 keepers and from the back side its like yours. I have been taking a look in the part with the grid and it looks ok from any angle.Pictures were taken time ago, if you need I can take new ones

Cheers

Hi

I've just got this Caitlin 2 from Gunny. I have to say that the vintage look is amazing...

Cheers

it is really nice!!

how EL's caseback is different from the Davidesen's caseback? is it thicker?

looking forward to see more pictures..

Cheers

frogfalls....what crownguard are you using? I am looking for one and cant find one. Do you have an extra?

ToroBravo at Repgeek is selling CG right now hxxp://repgeek.com/showthread.php?t=88021

frogfalls....what crownguard are you using? I am looking for one and cant find one. Do you have an extra?

It's a LH'CG,unfortunaltely I don't have any left.

PAM202A with MP PAV91.

PAM202A with MP PAV91.

Everything started when I saw some FGD's dials for Pre-Vendome watches. I must say that these dials are the best I've seen so far. Immediately thought in some pictures that The Zigmeister had posted with its new PVD coating and the possibility of building a 202A. Well, as this was the first time I tried to build a Pre-Vendomes watch, There were many factors to consider, correct PVD coating, pre-v case,CG, crown and so on

I asked for advice from some members of this forum to complete my project.Now, once completed I would like to thank them for their help and support. Without their advice and skill I would still be wondering where to start :-)

Thanks to The Zigmeister and J, for their marvelous job, thanks to FGD for these great dials and thanks to Tanya, w0lf, r_squared for their advice and support..

Thanks

Some info I found about this watch (http://www.wristwatchphoto.com/)although not saying the quantity of watches with darkened tritium:

In 1993 Officine Panerai produced a series of watches for the normal consumer market (Panerai had been producing instruments for the navy since 1860). These watches were produced and sold before Vendome acquired the company in March 1997. For this reason, these particular models are often referred to as "Pre-Vendome" or "pre-V" watches. Any of these Pre-V watches are now hard to find and considered to be collectible. Asking prices have gone through the roof, which is especially true for certain watches - the PVD steel Panerai 202/A is one of them.

The top part of the dial - underneath the 12 - has two lines of text "Luminor Panerai" and the bottom part of the dial shows "Marina Militare". The 202/A is often referred to as being a "four-liner" because of the text on the dial. Very few Panerai watches have "militare" in their model name. Besides the 202/A, the most famous watches that have this are the special edition Panerai 36, the destro 217 and the elusive model 267 (only six units produced).

Some of the 201/A and 202/A watches were produced with a varnish that caused the color of the tritium to change to dark orange. This was actually a fault in the production process of these watches, that Panerai corrected before producing all the units. Therefor only some of the watches have this orange color. Because the color of the indexes/numbers is different than the color of the tritium hands, these watches are referred to as "non-matching".

Thanks Kenthino, great info!

coming back to the FGD's picture, then the one on the right is the corrected model, the one that Panerai considered with the correct lume and varnish, right?

I need to take some pics with the flash and compare them to these.. a flash in minimum lighting and the PVD should resemble these pics.. to replicate the lighting in each individual genuine pic is the challenge.. as the PVD reacts differently in various lighting..

Anyone could provide more information about these two different dials? I know that for the 5218/202A were produced 140 units and 10 prototypes. Does the 'aged' dial belong to one of the prototypes? What's the reason of these two different dials? I also noticed that certain models have the CG's pin polished and others not..

Thanks

Amazing!!! Congratulations both The Zigmeister for his stunning work and to Lanikai, he is a lucky man

Gorgeous!! wear it well!!