Cats Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Omega did a great job on my troublesome 1680 . Great crown guard job , lugs drilled to accept gen spring bars , gen crown , gen tube , gen insert. I asked him to relume the red dial and hands with SL. He warned me that it's not quit the vintage look and that if it was my wish he would do it. I liked to result but after a few weeks it started to annoy me. After the GTG in Brussels I was convinced that it had to change in a white 1680. I also decided that I wanted an old MBW Singer dial for it. A few weeks passed and I found the solution a old school MBW Singer dial vintige lumed markers and hands and a matt finish was the solution. Here are some quick and dirty pictures ( still haven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbchubb Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 sweeet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGMAN Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Simply awesome! I love it....this is exactly what I'm after.....VERY NICE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimede Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Hi Cats..... I like the RED version, perhaps because I have already a beautiful 1680 white and genuine. The drilling of the bends to allow fitting genuine EndLink was difficult? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Looks great Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cats Posted July 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Thanks guys i'm enjoying my white beauty more and more every minute. I was surfing some vintage gen sides and discovered that the lume on my 1680 white is almost the same as the gen Archimede since you like the RED i have the dial still available in the parts section Carpe Diem Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 That's looking good I'm tempted to try the reverse of that process as a project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimede Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) Thanks guys i'm enjoying my white beauty more and more every minute. I was surfing some vintage gen sides and discovered that the lume on my 1680 white is almost the same as the gen Archimede since you like the RED i have the dial still available in the parts section Carpe Diem Cats Thanks Cats, now I go to see, while you do enjoy my gen 1680 in white. Edited July 2, 2009 by Archimede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hey Bert, great that you like the lumejob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephane Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 You made the right choice Cats! The white is so sweet! Yours looks stunning to me. Now, one question though: why do you always want SL on your vintage watches? (If I remember, MM made one for you too). You should try a less "new" look once. I'm sure you'll love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cats Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Thanks again to all. Tribal i do like the lume job a lot because it's done by one of the masters in reluming Stephane i was thinking about your question why i did choose for SL after having a beautifull 1665 DRSD done by the MM with vintage lume. The reason is ( i think ) that i like the 1680 and 1665 models a lot , but i also want my watches to be usefull during night time and in the darksness. Omega tried to convince me that i shouldn't lume it with SL but i didn't listento him. Afterwards i came to the conclusion that the RED dial was way of in it self and that the lume gave a green hue when wearing it in the sun. So the best solution was an old singer white dial with a vintage lume Carpe Diem Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephane Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 In all cases, choices are so personal I predict that, like some of us, after getting a white, a red, 1665s, you may end with a gen 1680 white one day Wear it very well and certainly in good health B. All the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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