Bronze River mille-metri arrives!

[mellons]

So package arrived- bronze mm with rubber and nato strap. I never had a bronze esdee and always regrette it, so when these came up I jumped. First impressions are that this is a big hunk of metal- well put together. 

 

 

 

Get it on a modded strap- quick side-by-side with alu mm. Some slight but notable differences in case shape. Casebacks are interchangeable, bezels are not.

 

 

Nice piece, heavy with steel caseback. Vertical tooling marks are quite visible- wil need to sand down a bit.

 

 

Let's try it out with a bit of patina- looks like we need to remove some of those machining marks

 

 

Sand-down, polish up, then brush by hand... a gold one would be a bit much...

 

 

 

 

Now to re-patina in blackening liquid: back in the torture chamber. Colour will tone down after a while:

 

 

 

 

Next thing is change caseback to aluminium anodised, do crown gasket mod to get 1000m+ water resistace and grease up all seals... and remove lume pip...

 

 

Modded esdee bezel screws to get deeper "clicks" in stainless steel to get closer to original. Need to get steel cg pin also... and possible a red bezel gasket

 

some semi-finished wristies

 

 

 

 

[ubiquitous]

Really digging that! Gorgeous patina... But sadly, probably way too big for my wrists

[ogladio]

I have never been so surprised by a watch as the time I tried on my first Mille Metri. As long as you don't have that other crazy lug system, it's really easy to wear!

Very happy bronze is available now!

[ubiquitous]

[astonjenks]

Mel

 

I think you should let me have a try :-)


Best regards


AJ

[mellons]

tried on a set of esdee bronze cg's pieces today:

 

 

 

 

[DuDro]

 

tried on a set of esdee bronze cg's pieces today:

 

 

 

 

 

Makes me want to get a Ennebi Fondale even more now ...