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Can't wait... any ball park aproximations on the price ? :rolleyes:

Guys, relax. These are going to happen VERY shortly. We have many in hand, more are on the way. They all look as fantastic or fantasticer than the pics ubi posted. We may even offer a couple different versions (same appearance) to fit different "models" of watches.

Please be a little patient, as anyone who's done a project knows the first days after you do your offer are nuts w/ orders and 1000 questions. Randy has been swamped at work, I am in the middle of negotiating a partnership agreement for a new business I'm starting, kruzer00 travels the world for his job. We're deciding who is going to do what: shipping, pay pal, etc, figuring how much we have to charge to make our money back and maybe take the kids to Chuck E. Cheese, and write the "offer" post.

You won't have to wait much longer guys...

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Very very cool, Ubi!!! I can't wait to get mine!

Looking at that pic--(which is about 4X zoom plus the 3x cyclops) something pretty funny, or at least ironic, occurs to me. What I'm proudest about about that number 31 are the imperfections, which (sorry about the self-bell-ringing), are 100% perfect in that ithey're exactly in the same places as the imperfections on the number 31 on the wheel ubi provided.

The hardest and most expensive part part of the project was finding a combination of technologies and materials that were durable and cost-effective and worked together at a high enough resolution to duplicate the low-resolution of 1960's printing, which is harder than it sounds. Most processes available actually either create different flaws (by making the bumps and wiggles of the original ink look bizzarre through pixelation, like, say, on an ink jet printer) or smoothing out the numbers so much they look too uniform, like they rolled off an assembly line in 2006 instead of 1966.

In other words we had to go right to the cutting edge of high tech to 1:1 (LOL) duplicate low tech...

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Isn't that true about life. How many times have I cursed my 100 year old house. Everything is twice as expensive and difficult to get. :lol:

Ahh, but the satisfaction it brings!

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Well... Kruz probably would post a pic if he could... But since his watch is with me, it kind of makes things difficult :)

BTW... A teaser...

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One thing that really stands out with a 1680 crystal is the incredible accuracy of the older style printing techniques being duplicated here. Without the cyclops you simply cannot appreciate just how true to genuine these dial wheels really are. If they are centred right on each numeral then we are on to a winner and another major flaw has been taken care of for our vintage Rolex's. Great job guys can't wait for mine, make sure you save me TWO Randy!!!!

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Have you guys thought about selling these on eBay, or to other outlets? (Once the local demand has been satiated, of course ;) ) There is no Rolex mark, so they could probably be sold as vintage reproductions, without conflict.

...Forget it...I just rethought that suggestion. It would be too confusing, since these are made for ETA movements.

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