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Build 1680 red -ghost ( viet.)

eddy@manu

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Hello friends after having binged with gmt 1675, I decided to switch to my second favorite vintage watch, the submariner 1680 red gosth .:
Vietnamese case. Completely reworked.
Aftermarket ghost insert.
Pearl athaya.
Vietnamese dial.
Folded bracelet with submariner closure and 580 finals.
Movement eta.
2846 low beat.
Yuky age adapter ring.
Aged hands (waiting for new hands).
Plexy GS - PA 25-117.
Vietnamese tube & crown. ????
I accept especially criticism to improve ????
Good vision ????
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hanski

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Nice build!

Two questions:

- Where did you get that bracelet? I’d really like to get my hands on one.

- When you rework the case, did you give it a slight angle upwards when looking at the lugs straight on? Look at pictures 7&8 here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vin...f=207673&t=245492&p=551800&hilit=1680#p551800
See what I mean with the slight angle on the case? It doesn’t appear to go straight up and down.
I ask because I only observe these things in pictures. I haven’t handled a gen 1680 so I cannot speak with authority.
 

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hey great build!

-athaya crown and tube
-reshape CG to gen specs
-gen crystal!
 
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eddy@manu

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Nice build!

Two questions:

- Where did you get that bracelet? I’d really like to get my hands on one.

- When you rework the case, did you give it a slight angle upwards when looking at the lugs straight on? Look at pictures 7&8 here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vin...f=207673&t=245492&p=551800&hilit=1680#p551800
See what I mean with the slight angle on the case? It doesn’t appear to go straight up and down.
I ask because I only observe these things in pictures. I haven’t handled a gen 1680 so I cannot speak with authority.
At the top My case before reworked
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before I had a rounded glass, but when I worked the case I was inspired by this photo, and also the cg's

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180830/
After reworked
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Cg’s left My Watch

20180830
 
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eddy@manu

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My case after reworked:
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I used to wear a plexy without cyclops, but it's the same watch
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eddy@manu

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After reworked
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heska

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The insert color looks great ! Did you bought it already aged or do you aged it yourself ?
 
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hanski

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My case after reworked:

I was talking about the other perspective of the case:

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See how it slopes. Is this a photo mirage or do gens slope like this?

Also, tell me about that folded link bracelet? Is it gen or rep? If it's a rep, where did you get it?

Thanks!
 

eddy@manu

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I was talking about the other perspective of the case:

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See how it slopes. Is this a photo mirage or do gens slope like this?

Also, tell me about that folded link bracelet? Is it gen or rep? If it's a rep, where did you get it?

Thanks!

will be the photographic perspectives, about the bracelet, I have only six years to build it, there is a chrono shop site every now and then I am using a piece available, a little gen. a little aftermarket


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eddy@manu

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Looks great man, the dial is a bit too pristine and almost glossy/smooth in certain angles, I always use a bit of matte varnish to roughen the texture up a bit.

in all the dial?
do you have a demonstration of a dial made by you with this kind of processing?


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Couple of things- yes the dial needs to be aged, maybe coffee or tea stained with matte varnish.
Hands need to be changed to steel- a feet first red sub is a 70s sub- gold hands were long gone.