PAM,
I sent you a PM, I ordered two crowns back in sept 06 could you check on these for me. The pm has all my details including copy of paypal payment. I look forward to a reply and thanks!
I bought one of those diamond testers off ebay and they work great for telling sapphire from mineral. It turns out a few of the watches I was told were sapphire were not but davidsenjpn's replacement sapphire crystal for the fiddy is sapphire as he claims.
Nice project and great post.
Here is a video showing construction for anyone interested it's from strapmasters :
http://www.strapmasters.com/straps-panerai-video.html
he is using two needles...
Nice straps V!
I just ordered a new one myself, the MF Vacchetta Sport Black/Ti, looks awesome and the nice thing about them you can get it any size not just 115/75-120/80 for us that like/need longer straps...