Upgraded my Seamaster

[didjital7]

So I've had a VSF seamaster for quite some time. It is a lovely watch, but many of you may know it has a big flaw. The shiny bits on the bracelet are flat, while the endlinks have a more rounded profile to those pieces.

So I recently saw thar ORF had released a version of this watch, and the bracelet was correct! I managed to get an ORF bracelet to retrofit to my VSF. Yay me!

You can see that this bracelet looks much better.

I did find that the VSF clasp was better though. The quick size adjustment was much smoother in the VSF. Also, on both bracelets there are a couple links on each side of the clasp that don't have the polished bits. The links on the ORF were different in length and didn't look as good, so I used those from the VSF as well. My VSF clasp had some scratches:

So I used my trusty green scotch Brite pad:

After scotch brite:

You can see the difference between the two bracelets:

I'm happy to report that the ORF endlinks fit perfectly in the VSF watch head. I now have what I believe to be a super rep.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Interesting]

Thanks for the post I am not quite following the lack of polished bits on some of the links on both sides of the clasp? Thank you for taking the time to explain when ou can.

 

[didjital7]

If you look at the second and third to the last photos (showing the clasp) you'll see that the last couple of half links on both sides don't have the polished lines. That's how they all are.

 

[didjital7]

This is gen. Same thing, last couple half links have no polished bits.

 

[Interesting]

ah ok. Now I understand. The gen is the same. No polished sides too. Got it Cheers

 

[YellowFin]

Good job by ORF!

 

[Replisimio]

Looking good buddy! Enjoy wearing her!


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[eBoy]

Gotta love a watch a watch frankened with rep parts to reach rep-perfection. Hehehehe

Nicely done!