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Gentlemen, First of all I wanted to thank all the members of this forum for sharing their knowledge and experience. I always had my questions answered here and always received valuable information that helped me build my dream time pieces. I have been a member here for several years and it was always fun to read your posts and knowledge exchange. Thanks to this forum, I have finally completed my long lasting projects and wanted to share with you some pictures. Special thanks to SSteel, Kenny and Whoopy for helping me with these time pieces. In the course of building these watches I have realized a few important points for the newbies: 1. These things are never perfect but they are fun!, 2. you wont get to build anything until you have waisted a few cases, fractured a dozen of plexies and ruined some dials among other things. 3. by the time you get to the desired results you will think that you could have bought one genuine piece, - and it is true, but hey, this is just more fun! Enough talking, lets get to my imperfect pieces. Sorry if photos are not perfect, can do more if anyone is interested. 1. 5513 Guild Dial. - Case from Josh - 703 crown and tube from Athaya - Dial from Vietnam - Dial, hands and insert dot relumed, aged with care and love by Kenny - ETA movement - Plexi Sternkreuz - Insert Dot from Ofrei - Bracelet along with the end links and springs from WSO, bracelet buckle from cartel - (thanks for a tip by a fellow member) - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works 2. 1680 Red. - Cartel Case - Gen crown - Gen insert - Whoopy Dial - Dial, hands and insert dot relumed with care and love by Kenny - ETA movement - Gen top hat Plexi - Insert Dot from Ofrei - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works 3. COMEX - Case MBW - 703 crown and tube from Athaya - Whoopy Dial - Dial, hands and insert dot relumed with care and love by Kenny - ETA movement - Plexi Sternkreuz - Insert Dot from Ofrei - Bracelet along with the end links and springs from WSO, bracelet buckle from cartel - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works 4. 6239 Paul Newman - DW Case - Gen crown - Dial from Vietnam - Dial, hands from Yuki - Valjoux 72 movement - Plexi Sternkreuz - Bracelet from Yuki - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works, including painting of the minute dots on the dial as per original. Thank you all.