After several years active on mostly Dutch watch forum, I have developed a personal taste for vintage watches. Tried to make the watches vintage themselves, but always stuck on bleeching the insert and put some schratches on them
Then I bought some "modded" pieces from my friend Peter (Replica01) and soon find out that they look much better. I bought a piece that came from @kilowattore and that is a asome piece. I also saw some watches from Peter which have been modded by Tripdog (RWG.bz) So now I have decided to let Tripdog put some of his magic on these watches below.
First watch is the Rolex 5517. This one has already a swiss movement and gen pearl. Trip is going to rework the whole case and lightly reshape the crystal and give it more patina.
Second watch is a Cartel base 1675. This one is going to need a compleet overhaul.
Case reshaped - slimmed as it's too thick, Lugs slimmed, crown guards re-shaped, Bezel ring re-shaped, All case parts re-polished and brushed, Bracelet re-polished and brushed, and new crystal and insert, Some texture and patina on the dial, DW and hands.
Maybe later a Vietnam dial and swiss movement.
I wait anxiously and keep you informed