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monkeypunch

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For over a year or so I had a Yuki 5508 Gilt dial and never had a case for it. I heard that the Tiger case would fit it, and it did!
 
Build specs:
 
Tiger case.
Yuki 5508 Gilt dial.
Dial/Hands relumed.
Gen spec tube/gen crown
ETA 2879.
Hands from an old Sandoz Submariner.
Drilled out lug holes.
Faded insert from another case.
Phoenix Nato Strap.
 
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The dial was already in rough shape lume wise, and I figured I couldn't hurt it any more than it already was. The previous lume job ended up with half the markers being green and the other half being brown. I am happy with how the hands turned out; not bad for a first try :) 
 
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The 5508 used a 6mm crown, I was going to use the 8mm Athaya, but decided to stick with the 6mm, for now...
 
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I may try sanding down the crystal sometime in the future, but am content for the moment.
 
 
 
 
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  • 6 years later...

Tiger cases have changed. I don't think a Tiger 5508 case has drilled lugholes these days so it's not a good candidate in my mind.

Yuki doesn't make a 5508 dial from what I see on his web site- 6536 is the closest you can get.

I did find a cartel 5508 on Trusty's site

https://trustytime.shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_103&products_id=1850

It's a start- you'd need a better bezel insert and bezel which might be tricky and the dial is passable, but until you got it apart you wouldn't know what the dial diameter is- my thinking is that it's 28mm or so but that's just a guess. 

Beyond that you could go to MQ or Phong and build a high dollar 5508- maybe put a 2824-2 slow beat variant in there- typically a 2846-2 won't fit in a 5508/5513 case. 

But you could put a 2846-2 in the Trusty case and that would be a slow beat upgrade. Maybe for $500-600 you could end up with a decent 5508- age the dial, soften the case, if you got a decent bezel insert, maybe no one would notice the bezel.

 

 

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