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Aged Tritium Love - Show us some vintage or vintagized eye candy!


Toadtorrent

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Tritium...signature of the vintage watch. What is it? Pugwash tells all here.

Ok...there has been some amazing aging work on some of the member's pieces here, to create that fantastic vintagized look.

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The Zigmeister's tritium lume work on Lani's 5513 3-6-9

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No talk of aged tritium can go without mentioning Stephane's SRSD...

Old tritium doesn't have to be aged and yellow...

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Nanuq's chocolate dials...

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How about TMG's Franken 1655??

All of it is good...let's see it all!!

Here's one of my contribution:

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MMhhhh, OK. How about some PANNY love with aged T-dials??

My PAM028 with the lume of a wizzard :D

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...And a group shot of watches I found in my box recently:

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Somebody likes PAMS. That is one impressive lume job...no surprise given the source. And that is one impressive Panny collection!!

Here's one that's almost 51 years old. :wub:

What's the story on that one B??? Incredible!!!

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All original 165.024:

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Franken 9411 with gen original dial, hands and trit pearl dot:

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And for grins- The above dial prior to being installed side by side with an original NOS example:

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PAM Pre-A 002 with ivory colored indicies on the FGD dial:

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16520 Frankenstein with gen tritium dial; not very aged but tritium none the less :)

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Looking great. Are you going to go the Franken route on this one??

Beautiful, IS an understatement... :wub: :wub:

Thanks Toadtorrent, and thank you coolfire. To be honest, I've got so many projects going on right now I just may sell it if someone made me a good offer. The dial really came out great, and is one of the most accurate chocolate "meters first" red dials I have yet to see. B)

Cheers,

JJ

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You're killing me Ubi. That Omega is FANTASTIC!!! Wow.

Your Daytona is a dream watch as well...great stuff!!

Thank you, sir! The Omega was $600 well spent a few years back :) I've not found an example like it since for anywhere near that price! This will be a good one to hand down to my son...

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I've not found an example like it since for anywhere near that price! This will be a good one to hand down to my son...

I'm not so sure that I've seen one like that in real life. It is truly beautiful.

As to my kids...I don't think they are getting anything but a collection of reps with sapphire crystals, and few old things with nothing but plastic. ;)

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Nothing wrong with that at all :)

People may argue that one should only pass down something of intrinsic value to your children, but in my opinion, if it meant something to you, it's likely that it may mean something to your kids as well.

While dollar value is nice, sentimental value is priceless. That's why I built the Daytona pair for my kids ;) It may mean more to my kids that my hands put the parts together specifically for them instead of some guy in Switzerland :)

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While dollar value is nice, sentimental value is priceless. That's why I built the Daytona pair for my kids ;) It may mean more to my kids that my hands put the parts together specifically for them instead of some guy in Switzerland :)

That is fantastic! I had no idea...now that has me thinking. What a great idea!!!

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Here is my first "serious" attempt on vintagization. The base is a Silix-sub with no new parts.

Bleached the bezel insert ( it took half an hour), worked the case, caseback and band.

Think I went a bit over the top with the brown lume... and, I did not manage to fit the seconds hand back on. The watch runs very erratically now. :(

Well, a cheap and nice way to learn. I like the way I got the pearl and hands.

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