Pan Am 6542

[Dlf]

So it's done... Nearly a year later.

Thanks to Freddy, joeyb, cc33, DH, and whomever else helped me being patient with my various questions, it's appreciated

Parts:

1655 case shaped, beveled, slimmed, drilled lugs, gen crown(I couldn't find a gen brevet in my budget) and raffles one was just too fat still after shaping.

Phong bezel

Ingod dial

Hr hands plated and aged, lumed, seconds hand big ball with high tube, I know it's not what was 'original' but I prefer it. Raffles gmt hand, olshk secs hand.

Hangzhou gmt

Roulette DW overlay

Yuki bracelet

Neckyzips engraving

Bezel insert I got from Freddy- so unsure of origin

Gs plexi nos

Found a 1959 program and the lighter is a 1959 zippo

Letter was made for fun

I won't bang on about how much of a headache it was, just rarther show a few pics..

Cheers

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Edited September 7, 2014 by Dlf

[cc33]

Wow wow wow, that turned out extremely well! Closeup please!! Great job, you should be extremely proud of this one it's fantastic

[blue.]

Congratulations!

Incredible attention to history and details!

I feel a lot of passion here.

 

Some extra pictures would be great

 

Wear it often (not only on special occasions) and in good health!

[Dlf]

Thanks very much guys!, yes I did try to keep as many details as accurate as I could, the hands came up a little darker in the picture, cheers.

[cc33]

Great job on the case, the bevel is perfect. The hands and dial lume is also done really well. Again great job!

[ww12345]

Haha - nice! You replicated that VRF post almost to the T! Good job with the build, and great attention to detail, both on the watch and on the props.

[freddy333]

Well done. Wear that with pride, Mr. Bond.

[JoeyB]

Well done! 

[dbane883]

congrats.   who is Neckyzips?  is that a person who does engraving?

[monkeypunch]

[Ezio]

Haha you need to show the rest or the letter cant read after P.S dont forget

I wanna know what not to forget

Great build mate lighter and papers make the watch a true piece of history

[Kime]

It is just brilliant !

[alligoat]

Beautiful! And using the 1655 case worked out well- congrats!

[droptopman]

Beautiful piece.

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[panerai153]

Wonderful job, these are pretty difficult to get together, but when it's done, you have something that you can be proud of.

Mine says hello!!

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[lionsandtigers]

not usually a fan of these builds being so difficult to get anywhere close to accurate, but I must say, FANTASTIC job on this one.

Well done

[CptTripps]

Bravo sir. You put a lot of work into this one and have a piece to be proud of for sure.

[jmb]

Very cool!  I engraved a back for somebody and just centered the logo, didn't even think of putting something cool under it!

[panerai153]

Very cool! I engraved a back for somebody and just centered the logo, didn't even think of putting something cool under it!

That's accurate as well, it looks like from some of the photos, not all were engraved with numbers.

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[ogladio]

Just keep coming back to this... Wow.

[droptopman]

Did you do something to the dial or did it come that way. The aging and fading looks amazing. Keep coming back to stare at this. This is my all time favorite model and at some point will do a build.

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[alligoat]

Did you do something to the dial or did it come that way. The aging and fading looks amazing. Keep coming back to stare at this. This is my all time favorite model and at some point will do a build.

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Ingod dials come like that- I'm very pleased with mine- hands are a slightly different color but look better than the photo

[Dlf]

Trying it out on white tropic

[Kime]

Whoa... blingtastic

[robertk]

Great work. That took a lot of patience. Congratulations.