I want a 20 year old beat up sea dweller

[what2]

since I do not have the money to buy a real one, will have to create it from scratch. Any ideas?

[chefcook]

20 years old, so a 16660 with saphire crystal?

My suggestion:

- Wait for the new WM9 Seadweller

- Buy a NDTrading 16660 matte dial or wait for a glossy gen dial on the bay

- search for a gen tritium bezel insert

- Let some of our modders drill some lugholes

- Send the hands to Ziggmeister to have them relumed to match the dial

- Get an aftermarket 285 crystal without the laser edged crown (I think clarks had some)

- Buy some gen spring bars

The 93160A bracelet that will come with the WM9 Seadweller is semi correct for a 16660 as many watches had the original 93160 (without the A! Does not have cutouts for removing the spring bars) replaced with the newer 93160A during the service.

The parts and the watch will cost you about USD 1100.

To create a used look a bag with screws works nice

[alligoat]

Chef's got a pretty good formula.

If you could find an older SD case with the drilled lugholes, maybe you could start with that.

But I don't know if the NDT dial would fit an older rep case.

This NDT dial looks very nice:

http://ndtradingcorp.com/zen/index.php?mai...;products_id=90

If you could make it work, it would certainly be a beautiful franken!