pbdad Posted April 27, 2009 Report Posted April 27, 2009 Life started off as a DSN 2533. vintaged the case, sanded the crystal height down a tad, modded the Rolex Brev crown, shortened the case tube, darkened the blue hands and aged the lume (the hands are actually a lot darker blue than the pics convey), replaced the the dial with a RMScherry dial, overfilled the indices slightly per gen, aged the molnija movement bridges, replaced the blued screws with clear ones, and finished it one with a one-off one piece gunny strap (ala zulu strap). hope to replace it with a gen rolex 616 one day... enjoy.
hooky Posted April 27, 2009 Report Posted April 27, 2009 Wow, stunning piece! what Gunny strap was that? did not see anything like that on Peters website. Congrats, really nice one! I am still waiting for a pam249 with blue hands from Rocket/DSN. have a Gunny strap already waiting for it. Cheers, wear it well!
fishgodeep Posted April 27, 2009 Report Posted April 27, 2009 It looks superb, loads of nice details and touches....I agree the 616 is all that's required!! Thanks for sharing FGD
pbdad Posted April 28, 2009 Author Report Posted April 28, 2009 Thanks, guys! It was a lot of fun putting together. I learned a lot and think I developed a lot of good techniques that really bring the age out of these watches. The Gunny is a one-off strap I commissioned him to make for me. I told him that I wanted him to make a single long strap that I could thread through the fixed lugs like a zulu strap.
milesd Posted September 23, 2009 Report Posted September 23, 2009 I tried sending you a PM, but I couldn't. Did those hands come from DSN? Thanks.
palani21 Posted September 23, 2009 Report Posted September 23, 2009 dayum that baby looks gooood...love me some vintage pam...
tmg Posted September 23, 2009 Report Posted September 23, 2009 Well done PB, it looks great! I particularly like the tone of the hands.
pbdad Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Posted September 24, 2009 I tried sending you a PM, but I couldn't. Did those hands come from DSN? Thanks. hands came from Helena Rou and were modded to accept the molnija CP.
milesd Posted September 24, 2009 Report Posted September 24, 2009 hands came from Helena Rou and were modded to accept the molnija CP. thanks for the reply. I think I'm going to just stick with a closed caseback 6497.
vlaletom Posted September 25, 2009 Report Posted September 25, 2009 Very nice where did you have the engraving done ?
kbiz Posted September 25, 2009 Report Posted September 25, 2009 That's not engraving but foil overlay
pbdad Posted September 25, 2009 Author Report Posted September 25, 2009 no, it's actually engraved. It came from a cali I bought from ubid several years ago. I have a dsn molnija with foil overlays which are quite inferior.
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