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Want to buy a genuine 76100 dial. U got one, or might know where to get it?

Just one story in the life of a Watchaholic (GEEK) OK, the anticipation is killing me. But the wait is almost over! After getting all of the parts together and then waiting for the build to be completed, my new baby is finally done and in-route to me now Hopefully if everything lines-up with the stars & the moon and the mailman, tomorrow afternoon we will finally meet for the 1st time. I feel like a kid again, who’s waiting to meet his 1st date. I expect this to be the beginning of a very long relationship together. (Man, are we a strange group or what?) Not how ‘most’ people talk about watches. I gather over the last 10+ years or so, I’ve bought, sold and traded more than 100 gen & rep watches. During that time I still have some ‘Grails’ on my list that have just never really made it into my hands, for no real reason. One being a Gen Breitling Emergency, Wakmann Triple Date, a Gen Daytona (but I just got a nice rep 6265 finally), Gen SeaDweller 4000 and the basic Submariner 16610. Just about every other Gen Grail watch I wanted, I’ve acquired and ended up selling or trading for something else. Finally I decided to go down the higher-priced Franken road for a change. So I started gathering the parts needed and shipped them off to my Favorite Modder It strange how hours can feel like days, days can feel like weeks, and weeks can feel like months, etc…when you’re anticipating / waiting for that final day you two meet! I’m now in the 24 hours or less count-down and I pray Nothing holds-up the delivery of said watch. So here are some of the teaser pictures of the process: The Case – The movement and the 1st of many issues; bent seconds pinion on a brand new movement! Well since is so dirty and I’m spending this must on the entire project, might as well have a Full Service on the movement. Wow, look at those clean parts Time to start the rebuild process. New Main Spring Movement finished Getting closer to the finish line: TADA, its done! Now I just need it on my wrist to complete the ‘circle-of-life. I can’t thank my builder enough. He ran into many issues along to way, but with patience, his outstanding skills & knowledge, everything was fixed and came together beautifully. I hope I didn’t bug him too many times with my emails & questions along the way. When I finally get the watch on my wrist, I will give another quick photo update and a list of all of the gen parts in this build. Total cost for this project is not really important, because I got exactly what “I wanted” and the end results are outstanding. Dave…