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My new Cartel 5512


Bart Cordell

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I know what you mean by asking photos to friends... It is a week that I am stressing one of my colleague to bring his piece at work so that I can take some pics...

This guy (who is between 41 and 45yo) about 1 year ago discovered that his old-well-kept Rolex, bought from his father when he was delivered, with those 2 lines of red written on the dial is worth A LOT. Until 1y ago he thought it was just "an old nice reliable watch". Now he doesn't use it anymore because he's scared :D He has a nice handwind Speedy to use anyway...

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Hey Bart,

Really nice CG's work, and I agree with you about hands

Congrats !

Hello my friend !

Those CG's are stunning, a real improvement.

Decided to remove the pearl and heat the insert this noon.

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Today's specs.

V2 Cartel 5512 case sanded, polished, and CG's modded to PCG.

Athaya 700 crown.

Clark's 25-19 plexi.

Cartel insert bleached and heated to brownish.

Cartel hands sanded and relumed.

Glossy gilt dial.

Gen 93150 bracelet.

Gen 580 endlinks.

A2836 with Selita SW220 mixed parts.

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Magnificent!

(swings shiny pocket watch)

You're getting sleepy... sleeeeeepy... so very very sleepy. You want to send me this watch. You NEED to send me this watch. Sleepy, so very sleeeeeepy....

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Magnificent!

(swings shiny pocket watch)

You're getting sleepy... sleeeeeepy... so very very sleepy. You want to send me this watch. You NEED to send me this watch. Sleepy, so very sleeeeeepy....

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Nice dial, where did you get that from? It also looks like the grove in the bracelet link to the sel is missing? How did you get rid of that?

I make dials myself.

This old gen bracelet is a present from my father in law. It's stamped O6. I'm not an expert and I don't know something missing. What is this grove ?

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I've been reading that the latest production runs have been shipping with the hands glued onto the movement! So if you have any plans to use new hands, a dial, or movement, you have to replace all 3! You can't even remove the hands to work on anything even if you plan to keep it all stock. Has anyone else experienced this?

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