azbank Posted May 21, 2017 Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 Gentlemen, First of all I wanted to thank all the members of this forum for sharing their knowledge and experience. I always had my questions answered here and always received valuable information that helped me build my dream time pieces. I have been a member here for several years and it was always fun to read your posts and knowledge exchange. Thanks to this forum, I have finally completed my long lasting projects and wanted to share with you some pictures. Special thanks to SSteel, Kenny and Whoopy for helping me with these time pieces. In the course of building these watches I have realized a few important points for the newbies: 1. These things are never perfect but they are fun!, 2. you wont get to build anything until you have waisted a few cases, fractured a dozen of plexies and ruined some dials among other things. 3. by the time you get to the desired results you will think that you could have bought one genuine piece, - and it is true, but hey, this is just more fun! Enough talking, lets get to my imperfect pieces. Sorry if photos are not perfect, can do more if anyone is interested. 1. 5513 Guild Dial. - Case from Josh - 703 crown and tube from Athaya - Dial from Vietnam - Dial, hands and insert dot relumed, aged with care and love by Kenny - ETA movement - Plexi Sternkreuz - Insert Dot from Ofrei - Bracelet along with the end links and springs from WSO, bracelet buckle from cartel - (thanks for a tip by a fellow member) - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works 2. 1680 Red. - Cartel Case - Gen crown - Gen insert - Whoopy Dial - Dial, hands and insert dot relumed with care and love by Kenny - ETA movement - Gen top hat Plexi - Insert Dot from Ofrei - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works 3. COMEX - Case MBW - 703 crown and tube from Athaya - Whoopy Dial - Dial, hands and insert dot relumed with care and love by Kenny - ETA movement - Plexi Sternkreuz - Insert Dot from Ofrei - Bracelet along with the end links and springs from WSO, bracelet buckle from cartel - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works 4. 6239 Paul Newman - DW Case - Gen crown - Dial from Vietnam - Dial, hands from Yuki - Valjoux 72 movement - Plexi Sternkreuz - Bracelet from Yuki - Graciously assembled by SSteel along with all the case works, including painting of the minute dots on the dial as per original. Thank you all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Cordell Posted May 21, 2017 Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 Congratulations for these beautiful builds. Special mention for this stunning PN Daytona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselpower Posted May 21, 2017 Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 Beautiful pieces, beautiful work. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azbank Posted May 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted May 22, 2017 Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 Beautiful! That's a collection to be proud of. Dangling participles notwithstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cousin_hub Posted May 22, 2017 Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi is there a link to get some Viêt-nam dials ? Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sogeha Posted May 22, 2017 Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hmm. There are several sources and some come and go. You can often find them on eBay, probably the most straight forward source. A tell tale is the phrase "Swiss ink" in the description, whatever the hell that is. There is Minh, who has very nice Daytona dials, but isn't the easiest to communicate with Phong and Jensen are able to get stuff from Vietman, their good stuff is very good, but some of their standard dials don't cut it in my opinion. http://www.vintagewatchesmq.com/ http://jewelryandwatch.com/ https://www.vintagewatchmaker.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hologramet Posted May 24, 2017 Report Share Posted May 24, 2017 On 2017-05-22 at 8:46 AM, cousin_hub said: Hi is there a link to get some Viêt-nam dials ? Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk Send me a PM and I'll hook you up with my source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdk Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Well done!! Nice collection of some beautiful history............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azbank Posted June 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 Thank you, I found some pictures from the PN Daytona build, made by SSTEEL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Cordell Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 Beautiful build. And I love these Le Jour (Yema) Yachtingraph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azbank Posted June 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThank you, I enjoy every watch and rotation daily ) daytona had a lil accident but parts are on the way from Micky to fix it. This hobby is great! Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI think Whoopy dials are the closest to the gen from what i have seen over the years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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