mt666tm Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 I've always loved the grey dial nautilus on composite (waterproof) grey strap, so when something is called 1:1 you would think a strap change would be straight forward. This was not the case. First problem was that one of the strap pin lock screws was stripped so I had to drill it out. Then I ran into the real problem. The strap lug that fits into the strap is too big on the rep. It has to be shaved down all around in order for the gen strap insert to slip on. After everything was shaved and fitted the pins slide in and lock screws were reinstalled (one properly and one is a head glued in place, both look perfect). There was also a big speck of dust on the dial so the whole watch was opened up to blow it out, along with refinishing screwheads and repressing the stem tube which was sticking out a bit, bad QC I guess... So for those wanting to install gen Patek straps, now you know what you may be in for; Compare with a gen picture pulled from online: GEN: :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gran Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Very interesting Thank you for showing this to me Dr.Gran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenpang Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Does anyone know if the MBW version would have the same problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Beautiful strap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webvan Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Catching up with some Nautilus threads. Nice work! Where did you get the deployant? I'm guessing it came with the 1:1 and was not a problem to fit to the composite strap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Very nice combination. Didn't you know 1:1 means they look the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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