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The startime bracelet wanted to know how heavy is it, is it hallow endlink.

The reason I ask is I am looking for a gen bracelet or startime with my WM9 goldthrough clasp however my Franken is a mid 2000 look with gold clasp bracelet model wanted to know if the startime bracelet match this, or is it for the older SS clasp model

The ST is a 91353 hollow link and is not heavy, it is indeed for the SS clasps. It is made for lug hole cases.
 

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Don’t hate me as there’s no watch yet... waiting on the case and movement next week.

Sneak peek for now. Gen serti dial is the icing on the cake. I love the almost ‘stardust’ look to it. Might have to call it the galaxy serti


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Is that normal wear n tear? Never seen a dial with those dot effects almost looks like a bleach splatter

I couldn’t tell you what on earth causes it but I have indeed seen a few dials from these sertis that have the speckles as well as some with the discoloration


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She ended up beautiful. Still waiting on the solid gold TT bracelet to come in Monday and then it’ll be done.

This was my first time using a VR3135 clone. Has anyone else had issues with the hand stack being too close? I felt like the seconds hand was very hard to get on to a point where it wouldn’t bump into the minute hand.


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Almost made me wonder if I had been sold a misstated set of hands. Bought them as gen hands but it really makes me wonder if they are 3035 hands as the sizes are so similar. Definitely not tritium on the hands and they haven’t been relumed however... very curious indeed. The seconds hand slipped onto the pinion very easily which made me begin to wonder


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She ended up beautiful. Still waiting on the solid gold TT bracelet to come in Monday and then it’ll be done.

This was my first time using a VR3135 clone. Has anyone else had issues with the hand stack being too close? I felt like the seconds hand was very hard to get on to a point where it wouldn’t bump into the minute hand.


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Your dial is incredible. I've used VR3135 on my last two builds and had no issues with the hand stack. My 16613 build is 95% complete is using a VR3135 I relumed ST hands to match the dial. Here is a picture for reference on the hands.

 

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Got the WSO solid 18k bracelet in and mounted last week and I was appalled at the quality of it... For $1000 you’d think the thing wasn’t a total heap of shit but sure enough... I had not polished gold before but I put in an order to Rio Grande and a couple of hours and soon enough it doesn’t look awful anymore! Couldn’t be happier.


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Almost made me wonder if I had been sold a misstated set of hands. Bought them as gen hands but it really makes me wonder if they are 3035 hands as the sizes are so similar. Definitely not tritium on the hands and they haven’t been relumed however... very curious indeed. The seconds hand slipped onto the pinion very easily which made me begin to wonder


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3035 should fit. I sent back hands three times to an ebay seller called Luxini Hamburg. They first sent the wrong hands for a smaller movement. Then very suspect hands that did not look like they were made by Rolex, finally I got the correct ones. A lot of these sellers part out old watches and who knows the history. The owners could have added anything to them.

Honestly for the bracelet (and bezel) Startime are a bit better. The gold is a little closer in colour to Rolex gold.
 
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