Cali dial is always fantasy one for all PAM fans , but we all know , it's difficult to build a good PAM249 with all correct parts .
And talking about Cali dial , we have to check the original model of it , the 3646 cali .
The good thing is , our TD River offer us very very good 3646 cali now .
You can check here if you don't know :
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php/fs-vintage-panerai-106697
And a member order this from River and send it to me for modified , by the chance , I will show you what I done on it and you can do it if you can .
1. Original dial is like this :
You can see the fonts color is too new , and too green . Hands are blue plating , and hands are with white lume .
So my plan is aged the dial and hands , aged the case . We know the plan now , so here we go !
2. Disassemble the watch :
Nice CB engraved on the inside , and with ST36 movement .
Owner offer a Swiss movement to swap , will do that when all parts are modified .
3. Aged hands
Remove the hands from the watch , this is the effect of the blue plating and white lume on the hands .
I remove the blue plating and lume first , and do well polished works . It's good to see that river hands are steel made , or it can't be mods at all .
After the polished works , I heat the hands to blue color to make them to real blue steel hands . The quality just jump out !
3. Aged dial :
I want to change the color to make the fonts be aged , but in fact , it's impossible to use aged color cover the green numbers . So I use pure white lume to cover the original color .
Then use vintage light yellow to relume , we have better looks now .
The lite grown numbers looks way better .
Then some special make up , make the dial looks more vintage .
4. The case set :
The case is already with correct structure , and also correct shape . So I just do some aged effect on it without too much reshape or other works . I add some special broken effect around the side of the plexi .
And add some damage on mid case .
5. Assemble :
Install the relumed hands first .
Put the movement ring back .
Screw back the bezel & plexi .
Fit the mid case on .
Install the crown , and of course , Swiss 6497 inside .
Screw back the case back (lite aged too) .
And let's check the final result .
Like it ? You can try to do it yourself now !!
And talking about Cali dial , we have to check the original model of it , the 3646 cali .
The good thing is , our TD River offer us very very good 3646 cali now .
You can check here if you don't know :
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php/fs-vintage-panerai-106697
And a member order this from River and send it to me for modified , by the chance , I will show you what I done on it and you can do it if you can .
1. Original dial is like this :
You can see the fonts color is too new , and too green . Hands are blue plating , and hands are with white lume .
So my plan is aged the dial and hands , aged the case . We know the plan now , so here we go !
2. Disassemble the watch :
Nice CB engraved on the inside , and with ST36 movement .
Owner offer a Swiss movement to swap , will do that when all parts are modified .
3. Aged hands
Remove the hands from the watch , this is the effect of the blue plating and white lume on the hands .
I remove the blue plating and lume first , and do well polished works . It's good to see that river hands are steel made , or it can't be mods at all .
After the polished works , I heat the hands to blue color to make them to real blue steel hands . The quality just jump out !
3. Aged dial :
I want to change the color to make the fonts be aged , but in fact , it's impossible to use aged color cover the green numbers . So I use pure white lume to cover the original color .
Then use vintage light yellow to relume , we have better looks now .
The lite grown numbers looks way better .
Then some special make up , make the dial looks more vintage .
4. The case set :
The case is already with correct structure , and also correct shape . So I just do some aged effect on it without too much reshape or other works . I add some special broken effect around the side of the plexi .
And add some damage on mid case .
5. Assemble :
Install the relumed hands first .
Put the movement ring back .
Screw back the bezel & plexi .
Fit the mid case on .
Install the crown , and of course , Swiss 6497 inside .
Screw back the case back (lite aged too) .
And let's check the final result .
Like it ? You can try to do it yourself now !!
