Received the watch from Hont, it's lovely and slightly different than the PO 5th gen in the 5th gen caseset.
It needs some mods, the dial is spectacular, which is really what I bought it for. Slightly glossy black with great cut to logos and markers and the red lettering is cool. It has blue lume but not superlume, definitely needs a relume. The crystal has no AR so needs an AR job. The bezel isn't bad, but I don't like ceramic type bezels anyway (too shiny) and plan on replacing it with a 5thgen/modded or similar. The pearl is dead centre on these (oh the irony!) but is awful, I'm sure a mod would make it much better if you don't like the idea of standard black bezel. Althoghter with a blue relume of hand/dial, AR'd crystal, eta dw and bezel mod it will be an outstanding rep.
By the way just to say, Hont is a great guy to deal with!
It needs some mods, the dial is spectacular, which is really what I bought it for. Slightly glossy black with great cut to logos and markers and the red lettering is cool. It has blue lume but not superlume, definitely needs a relume. The crystal has no AR so needs an AR job. The bezel isn't bad, but I don't like ceramic type bezels anyway (too shiny) and plan on replacing it with a 5thgen/modded or similar. The pearl is dead centre on these (oh the irony!) but is awful, I'm sure a mod would make it much better if you don't like the idea of standard black bezel. Althoghter with a blue relume of hand/dial, AR'd crystal, eta dw and bezel mod it will be an outstanding rep.
By the way just to say, Hont is a great guy to deal with!
...at least the dial should be well replicated on the new upcoming ceramic PO 8500 reps...if they build on the dial details that went into this.
