zetterdawg Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I noticed the LUMINOR MARINA and PANERAI are also a different size when laying the image over a gen dial scan. not sure exactly what you mean. Please send me the gen dial scan and I'll alter my work. I overlaid the work I did on the best version of a gen 111 dial I could get but the 111 picture was not taken head on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cls Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 not sure exactly what you mean. Please send me the gen dial scan and I'll alter my work. I overlaid the work I did on the best version of a gen 111 dial I could get but the 111 picture was not taken head on. Notice the height of the characters in PANERAI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cls Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 not sure exactly what you mean. Please send me the gen dial scan and I'll alter my work. I overlaid the work I did on the best version of a gen 111 dial I could get but the 111 picture was not taken head on. The graphic I uploaded I believe is correct, and I can give you the dial graphic in any format, I contacted David yesterday but he hasn't responded. If there's anyone else who can print dials, I can give it to them as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetterdawg Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 The graphic I uploaded I believe is correct, and I can give you the dial graphic in any format, I contacted David yesterday but he hasn't responded. If there's anyone else who can print dials, I can give it to them as well. I used photoshop to cut the "N" and "R" from the "LUMINOR MARINA" on the top part of the dial and pasted it into the "PANERAI" on the bottom. the font heights look the same to me, any small discrepencies can be explained by the angle of the picture and the resolution, but there really isn't any difference in height that I can tell. What we really really need is a high res large picture of a gen dial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cls Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 I used photoshop to cut the "N" and "R" from the "LUMINOR MARINA" on the top part of the dial and pasted it into the "PANERAI" on the bottom. the font heights look the same to me, any small discrepencies can be explained by the angle of the picture and the resolution, but there really isn't any difference in height that I can tell. What we really really need is a high res large picture of a gen dial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azgjav Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 how many of u guys can tell if the 2mm by 2mm font is wrong when u view the watch at 3-5m away from someone else's wrist or 1m from your wrist w/o having a gen on that same wrist to compare it to? so what if it's wrong? he's trying his best to make the best for all of us..give that poor chap some credit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetterdawg Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 how many of u guys can tell if the 2mm by 2mm font is wrong when u view the watch at 3-5m away from someone else's wrist or 1m from your wrist w/o having a gen on that same wrist to compare it to? so what if it's wrong? he's trying his best to make the best for all of us..give that poor chap some credit! If something is worth doing... it's worth doing right. Davidsen has been very receptive to any help we can give to make the dials "perfect". I don't think we're offending him, I think we're recognizing that not only has he done a kick-ass job building a dial, he's got a GREAT attitude towards other people helping him perfect it. Kinda like open source software, lots of eyes make any bug shallow.... lots of eyes make a perfect panerai dial Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosePR Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 is the "luminor marina" suppose to have lume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetterdawg Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 is the "luminor marina" suppose to have lume? nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cls Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 here you go. with index for printing / resize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetterdawg Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Update: Thanks CLS for the good eye and pics. I got a very large hires scan and tweaked my printing: - the M and N were too wide. Fixed that. You were right - the R was a little too wide. Fixed that. - Angle on A was wrong. Fixed that. - O was too oval. Fixed that. - actual spacing on characters was a little off, the LUMINOR and MARINA do not line up directly under each other. That was fixed. I sent the files to Davidsen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Update: Thanks CLS for the good eye and pics. I got a very large hires scan and tweaked my printing: - the M and N were too wide. Fixed that. You were right - the R was a little too wide. Fixed that. - Angle on A was wrong. Fixed that. - O was too oval. Fixed that. - actual spacing on characters was a little off, the LUMINOR and MARINA do not line up directly under each other. That was fixed. I sent the files to Davidsen. Nice work! Maybe Davidsen will name it the New 111H Zetter Edition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosanim Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Excellent work. If this would get materialized by Davidsen, there will be many happy eyes and wrists being thankful for. Even if not, much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookoo Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Good work Zetter! I hope Davidsen utilizes your improved version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxuan Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Way to go guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 I would rather have a crown that is 2mm too thin than a watch that at a glance looks fake..... A crown of 0.1mm would not scream fake ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 I hate to link over to another forum but here's where Davidsen is accepting suggestions for the new dial: http://replica-watch.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11487 If you can help, got the skills, please do since I want that perfect dial for christmas I have never been able to access RWI... page never comes up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 hate to say it but the watch in your avatar is a davidsen and even with the blurry pic I can tell it is fake and not even close to gen.. the font in a panerai with such a clean dial is much more important than in other watches....it simply has to be perfect. how many of u guys can tell if the 2mm by 2mm font is wrong when u view the watch at 3-5m away from someone else's wrist or 1m from your wrist w/o having a gen on that same wrist to compare it to? so what if it's wrong? he's trying his best to make the best for all of us..give that poor chap some credit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltatahoe Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 just saw this string of posts....any update from davidsen on this? nice work zetterdawg. Update: Thanks CLS for the good eye and pics. I got a very large hires scan and tweaked my printing: - the M and N were too wide. Fixed that. You were right - the R was a little too wide. Fixed that. - Angle on A was wrong. Fixed that. - O was too oval. Fixed that. - actual spacing on characters was a little off, the LUMINOR and MARINA do not line up directly under each other. That was fixed. I sent the files to Davidsen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesg Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 New dial being released either this weekend or early next week... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 The biggest flaw is not the font but the colour of the text.... The genuine Panerai H series dials have 'salmon' or 'off-white' colour and not the clear bright white davidsen is using. Well.. I guess there will be a 5th version now? Friend's genuine 111H.. Check the colour: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 PLUS forgot to add.. that it should be EMBOSSED and not just plain painted on the dial... My B series genuine dial has painted and white colour letters... My 112 H and I series have Embossed lettering and salmon/beige letters... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
894tom Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Hambone.. that watch looks great!! would take that over a davidsen anytime.... i wore one of those in an AD and they examined it and asked if I wanted to apply it for a trade it. WOW I can't believe you think so. That link supplied shows a watch with the same old pinion problem and the same obvious "swiss made" crunched into the six problem. Who cares if the A font looks better......you gotta get all up in the sauce to see the font of an A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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