Rolex Commando 6429 - The rarest of the rare. Raffles products review

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That does look lovely. But ambitious to do what exactly?
I’ve already got a 6610 money pit on my hands
Will give this entire thread a read, later.

 

[freebalkany]

It's a Gen 64xx case. They are a couple of mm thinner than the 5500 or the raffles cases. Raffles case on the bottom.

Wait, so is this all gen but with a raffles commando dial in it?

 

[369mafia]

That does look lovely. But ambitious to do what exactly?
I’ve already got a 6610 money pit on my hands
Will give this entire thread a read, later.

I was hoping you could trace out the dial for us so we can print.

 

[GenuineFool]

I was hoping you could trace out the dial for us so we can print.

What's the origin of this piece? Is this supposed to be gen? Link? It will take some high resolution photos to make it easy.

 

[369mafia]

What's the origin of this piece? Is this supposed to be gen? Link? It will take some high resolution photos to make it easy.

It is apparently a gen prototype
These are the best pics I have found of the watch.
It was posted on IG
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Indonesia Rolex watches and parts on Instagram: "Rolex commando, with a rotating engine type 1225, serial number 2.0XX.XXX and type 6429 in the year of manufacture of 1969. It is still suitable and accurate and is definitely ready to be used on the b

79 likes, 2 comments - vintagewatches_luxury on April 23, 2021: "Rolex commando, with a rotating engine type 1225, serial number 2.0XX.XXX and type 6429 in the year of manufacture of 1969. It is still s...".

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[GenuineFool]

I love it. It is bizarre that it says "Oyster Perpetual" on a 6429 since it is a hand wound movement (and they show the 1225 movement!), which makes me question its validity, but Rolex has done similar things with production watches like the first 1016s that had "OCC" on the dial even though they had 1560 movements. This is on my list.

 

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I was hoping you could trace out the dial for us so we can print.

That last pic is workable… need to get rid of the hands though. Its probably not going to be perfect. Could give it a try. Either that, or pay the professional illustrator

 

[369mafia]

That last pic is workable… need to get rid of the hands though. Its probably not going to be perfect. Could give it a try. Either that, or pay the professional illustrator

not perfect is close enough , its a copy of a copy of a prototype. with only one possibly be in existence. I am not too worried about the fine details , But If you dont want to, I understand.

 

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not perfect is close enough , its a copy of a copy of a prototype. with only one possibly be in existence. I am not too worried about the fine details , But If you dont want to, I understand.

No no ill give it a try.

 

[WatchN3RD]

not perfect is close enough , its a copy of a copy of a prototype. with only one possibly be in existence. I am not too worried about the fine details , But If you dont want to, I understand.

Please keep in mind, gentlemen, Rolex probably (definitely) had a few printing plates that were rotated between watches. Therefore, if the layout is there, the following texts should be easy to find if searching for that text only. I view it as 5 sections.
1) ROLEX
2) Oyster Perpetual
3) Commando
4) SCOC/OCC &
5) T-Swiss<25 or SWISS

1 & 2 are usually found together, and 3 & 4 can often be found together: 5 isn't a dealbreaker.

Just sharing my thoughts in case high resolution photos aren't available. I'd bet a pretty penny that a Submariner or GMT Master +/- 10 years of that has the exact same printing, and those high resolution photos are more likely than not readily available. Trust me, I'm OCD, okay!

 

[WatchN3RD]

Please keep in mind, gentlemen, Rolex probably (definitely) had a few printing plates that were rotated between watches. Therefore, if the layout is there, the following texts should be easy to find if searching for that text only. I view it as 5 sections.
1) ROLEX
2) Oyster Perpetual
3) Commando
4) SCOC/OCC &
5) T-Swiss<25 or SWISS

1 & 2 are usually found together, and 3 & 4 can often be found together: 5 isn't a dealbreaker.

Just sharing my thoughts in case high resolution photos aren't available. I'd bet a pretty penny that a Submariner or GMT Master +/- 10 years of that has the exact same printing, and those high resolution photos are more likely than not readily available. Trust me, I'm OCD, okay!

Forgot to add an example... it doesn't look to be a match, but the SWISS-T<25 is very similar to that found on a GMT Master "type C" dial produced in the 60's.

 

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The minute markers are not good in my example, but it's the best I could do, working with the dial posted by @369mafia was not so good, as the plexi crystal messed everything up.
If anyone else wants to give it a go:

 

[Hayst]

Please keep in mind, gentlemen, Rolex probably (definitely) had a few printing plates that were rotated between watches. Therefore, if the layout is there, the following texts should be easy to find if searching for that text only. I view it as 5 sections.
1) ROLEX
2) Oyster Perpetual
3) Commando
4) SCOC/OCC &
5) T-Swiss<25 or SWISS

1 & 2 are usually found together, and 3 & 4 can often be found together: 5 isn't a dealbreaker.

Just sharing my thoughts in case high resolution photos aren't available. I'd bet a pretty penny that a Submariner or GMT Master +/- 10 years of that has the exact same printing, and those high resolution photos are more likely than not readily available. Trust me, I'm OCD, okay!

I would have been more impressed if you had declared yourself CDO.

 

[Erect]

Actually, this is a bit better

 

[WatchN3RD]

I get it. When you are good, people don't always realize the time it takes. But you did that quick and clean with different fonts. Do you save them as paths in Photoshop or something?

I've become a recent expert in finding high resolution images, so please pm me if you if you are working on a holy grail for yourself.

 

[Erect]

I get it. When you are good, people don't always realize the time it takes. But you did that quick and clean with different fonts. Do you save them as paths in Photoshop or something?

I've become a recent expert in finding high resolution images, so please pm me if you if you are working on a holy grail for yourself.

Thanks. This was a mix and match of different vectors in Adobe Illustrator, as well as some photoshop to clean up 369's dial and steal some elements from it to vectorize, and some custom drawing.

My personal grail is this: https://forum.replica-watch.info/th...g-white-lollipop-1957.10977202/#post-11738939

 

[Hayst]

Actually, this is a bit better

You are getting very good at that. I predict that you are going to have a lot of friends on these fora.

 

[Hayst]

Thanks. This was a mix and match of different vectors in Adobe Illustrator, as well as some photoshop to clean up 369's dial and steal some elements from it to vectorize, and some custom drawing.

My personal grail is this: https://forum.replica-watch.info/th...g-white-lollipop-1957.10977202/#post-11738939

Not sure if this will interest you but the old Australian ID tags had a dark brown/black coating over brass. There are a couple of companies selling reps on ebay, and it may be worthwhile checking with them to ascertain the process used.

Here

 

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Not sure if this will interest you but the old Australian ID tags had a dark brown/black coating over brass. There are a couple of companies selling reps on ebay, and it may be worthwhile checking with them to ascertain the process used.

Here

Thanks for thinking along. I'll be using Galvanic process to black the brass with zinc. (As per original Rolex production method). This causes it to have a very slight brown hue under certain (sun)light.

 

[369mafia]

Actually, this is a bit better

Nice work brother that was quick. , Thats good enough for the girls I go with, as they say. Thanks for doing this.