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If only davidsen can fix the font on his dials

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d4m.test

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I know it's a known issue. I have no doubt davidsen will get to it sooner or later. But I'm thinking maybe if we talk more about it, davidsen will do it earlier. Look at his 005, http://replica-watch.info/forum/viewtop ... d&start=15. In case the images are missing, I backed up briank996 images (sorry brian, I don't mean to hijack your images, but when I went back to the link above, your images don't load. I went to my cache and uploaded your images to photobucket so everybody can still see the pics).
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Look at the watch, paricularly the thick crown and CG. The CG is perfect, the space above and below the lever is even, with the former just a tad thinner than the latter. It totally matches the current HISTORIC pannies. The case, crown, and CG are a perfect foundation for the current 000, 111, 112, 005 models. You know how good his superlume dial and hands, AR sapphire, and movements (even his CN movements are very good - read ziggy's report). If only he makes the dial letters bolder, proper spacing between them, proper position of the words (e.g. the word Panerai should be lower, closer to the indices). That should be very doable. If eddielee can do it, I'm sure davidsen can do it. I think we just have to tell him we want that done very much.
 

zetterdawg

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funny you should mention this....

I almost pulled the trigger on D's 111, except that the font is wrong.

This would be such a sweet watch with the proper font. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

How many other people would buy this with the correct font?
 
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silix's also looks fine in addition to eddie's. But if davidsen's looks like that (+ superlume hands and dial, no recessed pin problem, excellent movt swiss or cn, AR sapphire, perfect crown and cg = no need to mod), he will rule the panny rep space, I tell ya. Bad news to every other dealer and modders :( Go, davidsen, go. I'm your fan.
 

hk45ca

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bklm1234 said:
silix's also looks fine in addition to eddie's. But if davidsen's looks like that (+ superlume hands and dial, no recessed pin problem, excellent movt swiss or cn, AR sapphire, perfect crown and cg = no need to mod), he will rule the panny rep space, I tell ya. Bad news to every other dealer and modders :( Go, davidsen, go. I'm your fan.

it looks like he already rules that part of the game to me. lol
 

LegendofSpeed

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What a sec here... I have a 111H dial and capped hands (both superlumed along with a set for my 127) from Davidsen in transit... the 111H is an EL version.... so, my EL dial will have the more accurate font than the Davidsen???

If that is the case, is transplanting the lumed part of the Davidsen dial with the EL front a viable (easy) solution?
 

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spdshift22 said:
What a sec here... I have a 111H dial and capped hands (both superlumed along with a set for my 127) from Davidsen in transit... the 111H is an EL version.... so, my EL dial will have the more accurate font than the Davidsen???

If that is the case, is transplanting the lumed part of the Davidsen dial with the EL front a viable (easy) solution?

Maybe, I tried it once, didn't because the lume on davidsen dial will not align perfectly with the dial face cutout.

Cheers, vaccum