panerai153 Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 Folks, I know that ther have been lots of photos of various permatations of the DRSD. In fact I had another one,a Watchmaster, back a year or so ago. I bought this one several months ago, sent it to Joe, who spent the winter and spring under the weather. Well I had a visit from my nice post lady Saturday and lo and behold it was the DRSD! I really like this one, it looks absolutely identical to several DRSD's that are pictured in Skeet and Urul's great reference book "Vintage Rolex Sports models". Joe has been working on a vintage lume method that looks like aged tritium, but has a nice lume when exposed to bright light. I believe that the lack of lume completely in the replicas is a dead givaway. All of my old genuine dive watches, most from the 1960's have a little lume when exposed to bright light for 20-30 seconds. Most don't last very long, but the lume is there. I believe that Joe has achieved this with the lume material that he is able to apply now. I put the watch on a replica Rolex Riveted bracelet that is OK, but nothing special. I got it off Ebay, fom one of the regular sellers. My Watchmaster was on a genuine Rolex Riveted, and even though it was pretty old, it was much better quality. The first problem I ran into with this one was the end links weren't large enough to allow the use of the thicker Rolex Springbars. I'll be on the lookout for a better one to put on this nice watch. Well here it is: _________________ Arthur Person
Sherrington Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 Great lume job on the dial. Most lume jobs are either very poorly done or they are much too domed for a vintage Rolex. The glow to me is not really essential as most of my old gen watches have lost the glow completely. All you need now is a genuine bezel insert with vintage pearl (if you can find one)!!!!!
Craytonic Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 Were you using a tripod during the lume shot? Just trying to figure out why the lines are so shaky.
rbj69 Posted June 20, 2006 Report Posted June 20, 2006 glad u got it and love it, that is what its all about for me , and im sry it took longer than expected but im glad u understood and let me get better so i could do u the fine job u paid me for and am used to from me , by the way your pics r getting much better my friend joe
rbj69 Posted October 11, 2006 Report Posted October 11, 2006 Edited by TwoTone: Enough of carrying this crap on all over the board... TT
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