Ghetto 111h.. MY WAY.. my way

[TomRiddle]

well.. this thread is going to be different than the one on another forum because in here.. I can reference a thread I made about the very first pam I ever purchased.. $175 swiss base and all because it had a miniscule ding on the 11o'clock side

thread jokingly titled... I've officially gotten an I'm gay alert

way back wayyyy back when.. I never understood the fascination with PAMs (and still don't, sorry folks, lol i guess i'm just not a pam guy)

but I spotted a for sale thread.. pam 111h, swiss movement, stock basic (this was during a time when the recessed cp was the norm of the land) but overall good pam.. and it was on sale for $175 o_O because it had a miniscule "ding" on the 11 o'clock side of the bezel..

i thought what the hell, why not buy it.. it's only $175 and swiss and i didn't have a pam yet

so bought it, got it, still didn't understand the fasincation with pams and was very vocal about the fascination with pams being that it's imperfect so you keep chasing something that doesn't exist so you end up with 30 pams which all look the bloody same

contrast it with my (to this day) greatest rep, Hublot Polished Ceramic Rose Gold Big mothatruckin Bang which is so damn perfect it basically has "cured" me of getting more reps because well.. it pales in comparison and I always end up wearing the HBB over anything else (I even have a Hublot Gold Matte unworn because of this, grr)

and I try to enjoy my gear, I don't let it sit on a winder or a box.. but i'm getting offtrack.. let me go back to my point

we all know the most glaring "tell" of a pam rep.. the infamous L SWISS MADE L.. not just spacing but the font itself and of course the "2".. no matter how many ultimates or super modded ultimates come about.. our trained eye always goes to that glaring defect to the point that it's the first thing we see in rep pams.. (don't lie to yourself you know damn well that it's the first thing you notice)

enter: Little Hero.. his dials are on point.. and everyone agrees on this.. probably the best around.. so my project got started

the goal: Create my ghetto version of a pam 111h by combining different things i've already got and keeping the pricepoint down

materials to work with:

-201A with double AR

-swiss stock 111h

-little hero dial

-Tcrown

so.. I sent it to Rex and told him exactly what I wanted done..

-install the LH dial on the base pam

-use the 201A double-ar'd crystal

-install Tcrown

did i think it would all work out and fit together? nah.. but it was worth a shot, I wanted this 111h *MY WAY*, specifically.. the combination of Swiss-DoubleAR-LHDial..

that's the centerpiece.. the double ar'd crystal emphasizing the magnificent dial on a workhorse swiss mvmnt..

anyhows, I'm glad at how it turned out, I feel like Stitch..

This is my pam.. I found it, all on my own. Is little, dirty and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good!

pics comin up!

pics

HDRsiz'd pics

minimal HDR, macro on

and of course.. the wrist-shot

OH.. forgot to tally it up.. the best part about this?

I didn't really buy anything new.. except for the dial and the crown..

everything was already stuff I had so it didn't hurt my bank account at all specially today in this economy..

total recent out of pocket cost:

$260 = Little Hero Dial , $30? = Tcrown .. total? $290