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Five or six months ago, maybe more, I picked up a SSD V2 from Puretime. It was one of the last Polizia di Stato models. Good old SN of Z539117. Well I sent it off to jmb for lugholes drilling and then I put in a Yuki matte dial That yellow was killing me so I sent it off to PBdad for a relume which turned out great- not that my iPhone photo skiills improved! But the wok was still bothering me. That's when jmb said he was working on a new SSD crystal and wondered if I could sent him my sloped V2 crystal so he could measure it, etc. I went straight home and uncased the movement, popped the crystal and had it off in the mail that afternoon. It took him a while to get the crystals but last week I got my old crystal back and the new one. This new one is 29.5mm, same as the SSD V2, but it's 2.5mm tall and has a very slight bevel at the top. But the nice thing about it is that it pretty much de-emphasizes the wok because of the straight sides of the crystal. It's hard to tell from this close-up photo, but at a foot away, the rehaut wok isn't very noticeable. This is a close up pic, but I'll work on a better pic later. I also have access to a SSD V1 and might make a few comparisons if my nephew will let me borrow his watch for a while. Here's a side shot of the new crystal You can see the straight sides. I borrowed a pick of a gen 16660 to give you some comparison Pretty close to the new crystal on my SSD V2. This is a pretty easy mod to do and it really saved the V2 for me- I was close to giving up on the watch due to the wokky case, but now it doesn't bother me.