Submariner Semi-Sterile No Seconds

[Janek Sarnowski]

It's a temporary build, im trying to find a vintage dial (gen or rep) to go with my student budget :mrgreen:

This is what i'll be going for:

Picture borrowed of Altec from chinawatches.pl

The dial was sterilised with Acetone.

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Any advice on where to acquire a rep/gen dial like this?

Plus what do you think about the current mod?

Lemme know

[cjjoyce1]

Well, your first pic is a late model 5513 "Submariner first" dial. The later pics are a 16610 sub. If I understand what you are asking, you want to take a gen dial and sterilize it by removing the Rolex coronet and name? Why would you waste your money doing that?? You'll never find one pre-existing in that condition.

Just buy any newb sub - there is a dealer who has a fairly decent one for $48 (not a TD here, but is on another forum). Uncase the movement, set the hands to 6:30, pop off the second hand and carefully with the corner of a cape cod cloth polish off the rolex and coronet - I accidentally did that on a datejust dial in an attempt to remove a scratch on the dial - and put it back together.

Don't waste your money sourcing parts on something like this IMO.

[Janek Sarnowski]

You got me wrong, man (-;

The sterile mod is just for now, since the dial had a different logo on it.

What I was planning on doing was getting a 5513 dial and hands, changing the glass to plexi and leaving it at that - no sterilisation (-;

Btw. It's running a 21j Dixmont Guangzhou.

Edited May 1, 2011 by Janek Sarnowski

[sneed12]

OK, I see. You bought an MDQ or whatever knockoff sub and scrubbed the logo off.

Rather than modding a 16610 rep, why not just buy a 5513 rep?

[Janek Sarnowski]

And whats the fun in that?

I dont want it to be a perfect rep, i want it to be my own hommage to Rolex.

[Curt941]

So does the acetone not affect the dial itself, just the print? Did you use a q-tip or something?

[Janek Sarnowski]

I used cotton buds soaked in acetone and a toothpick to remove smaller prints. The black paint is intact. However, i know that some dials have a thinner coating of paint, and once you put acetone on them, you strip them to bare metal - as the case is with newer MQJ dials.

I have another dial exactly like the one in the pictures above and i'd gladly swap it for a rep Sub dial

Edited May 1, 2011 by Janek Sarnowski

[sneed12]

And whats the fun in that?

I dont want it to be a perfect rep, i want it to be my own hommage to Rolex.

That's fine... but I still don't get it.

You want a 5513 dial and hands in a 16610 case...?

[Janek Sarnowski]

I do

It might not be with the spirit of "perfect reps looking like gens",but i'd like to put all the things i like from subs over the years into one watch.If it doesn't work - it doesn't.However, i do feel that for me it might just cut it (-;

[Curt941]

Thanks! Where did you get that leather band as well? Looks sick with the matte buckle.

[Janek Sarnowski]

It was hand-made by my mate on one of the Polish watch forums (-;

Edited May 1, 2011 by Janek Sarnowski

[sneed12]

I do

OK... so buy a 5513 rep, a 16610 rep, do whatever swap you like and sell the rest of the parts off. You don't even have to pull any hands, just swap movements.