ubiquitous Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 Just picked this gen 5513 insert up, and figured I'd compare to a modern 5513 Lumi insert and a faded MBW insert... Gen Modern Lumi: Gen Vintage Fat Font Trit (slightly faded): MBW faded: How do they compare up close? Modern (left), MBW (right) Vintage (bottom)... 60: 10: 20: 30: 40: 50: The MBW is surprisingly close to vintage... Not spot on perfect, but not bad And some macros: Thanks for looking... //ubi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 Well done (as usual), Ubi. In general, unless there is some glaring mistake, I think most of the better rep Subs have decent looking inserts. The salient detail on the vintage gens are their slightly serifed fonts, which aftermarket inserts can only approximate (at best). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 Wonderful writeup, R! Curiously, the fat font insert on my 1665 hasn't faded at all, while the dial is all yummy and chocolate from age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panerai153 Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Great comparison photos and writeup. I agree, the fat font genuine and the MBW are pretty darn close. the differences really don't stand out until you get the magnification way up there. Who in the world is going to go around with a 10X loupe and put a genuine Sub next to an MBW to compare inserts? The main difference, here agin only with extreme mag, the numbers on the genuine are crisper, the serifs more distinct, and the distance between the numbers such as 1 and 0 in 10 seem to be seperated a tad more and are thus more distinct, also the 4 in 40 merges into the 0 on the MBW and not on the genuine, but really this is picking nits, because with the naked eye, most of this would not be noticible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJo35 Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 The difference between the mbw and the vintage gen are obvious. The mbw is a copy of an even older vintage insert. Search around on VRF and you'll see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorilladame Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Really nice thread!! To give it a even wide overview, let me add these pics: Upper left: Yuki 1680 Insert (shaped it a bit to fit nicer) Upper right: WSO990 with modded pearl (drilled out, widend and filled again) Down: New MBW from a 1680 (no mods) Pics can not be compared with yours, but I am not a big photoguy :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubiquitous Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Nice addition of your inserts, gorilladame... Thanks for the contribution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorilladame Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Would love to see a pmwf and a ndt, also... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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