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PAM 7mm (6.75) Cyclops Pictures


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Alrighty, then. Here we have a picture courtesy of The Zigmeister showing the new cyclops mounted to a PAM 89 at the proper distance from the date window. Magnification and distortion look very good...

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Also, as an alternative, I've set one of the lenses on top of my TW Best Frankensub (more about that watch another time). Note the distortion (or relative lack thereof) at the edges, and from various off-axis angles:

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As a side note, it's interesting that my hour hand is developing some sort of patina on it..... :)

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Great!

no better tradeoff between magnification and distortion could be achieved. This is a masterpiece.

Congrats! :thumbsupsmileyanim:

(I'm also glad for that little devil who insisted about the importance of low distortion... :D )

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Great!

no better tradeoff between magnification and distortion could be achieved. This is a masterpiece.

Congrats! :thumbsupsmileyanim:

(I'm also glad for that little devil who insisted about the importance of low distortion... :D )

Awesome work!! I'm in for 2 if there are any left.

As marco said, any more mag on those lenses and you'd get distortion. I'm convnced that OP's lenses themselves are no better than these. If gens have better mag it's either becase of deeper rehaut or possibly OP's grinding a pocket in the crystal to increase the distance between lens and DW. Which reminds me, has anyone who has recieved theirs tried to replace the cyclops on the "sandwhich" crystal equipped watches? If that works we'd be talking at least 1:1 mag on those pieces.

If it turns ou these don't fit the drilled holes I think another run of lenes that do fit would be a huge seller as more watches arrive in that configuration, provided it's feasable to get the crystals apart w/o damaging them...

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Awesome work!! I'm in for 2 if there are any left.

As marco said, any more mag on those lenses and you'd get distortion. I'm convnced that OP's lenses themselves are no better than these. If gens have better mag it's either becase of deeper rehaut or possibly OP's grinding a pocket in the crystal to increase the distance between lens and DW. Which reminds me, has anyone who has recieved theirs tried to replace the cyclops on the "sandwhich" crystal equipped watches? If that works we'd be talking at least 1:1 mag on those pieces.

If it turns ou these don't fit the drilled holes I think another run of lenes that do fit would be a huge seller as more watches arrive in that configuration, provided it's feasable to get the crystals apart w/o damaging them...

I've heard one account that separating the sandwich crystal is not terribly difficult... I think it was Lello who tried it.

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I've heard one account that separating the sandwich crystal is not terribly difficult... I think it was Lello who tried it.

I can confirm. Lello tried and succeeded.

Just heat (a flame) and the three pieces - the two crystal layers and the cyclops - came apart.

Then, quite a bit of glue and some attention not to get air bubbles between the two layers while reassembling.

I think I'm going to try the same on the next few days...

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