Fortunately, I was just looking.
This is actually the newest DSSD from Chris, at Eurotimez. I just had to dress it up with my new Rolex box set from watchnet. Quite nice, over all; possibly the best I've seen so far...
The rehaut lines up perfect & proper at 3, 9, & 12 (I switched the crystal out so I could shoot it without too much distortion--the rehaut does not appear incorrectly deep on the wrist):
And possibly the best feature of this piece--the new correctly beveled date-window:
Other details:
ETA clone movement:
And the correctly/gen sized & shaped two-piece caseback:
Too many of the later V3s and V4s came with the faux-titanium part of the caseback having an incorrect shape (notice the incorrect stepped trench below, as opposed to the correctly shaped piece above):
I must admit, I am very, very impressed with this piece. In my opinion, the V4 botched the case shape & crown-guards, and this piece seems to have corrected the problems with that and the V4's poorly fitted SELS & lugs:
If the factory dumped the V4 case mold and went back to the V3 case mold, it was a wise decision. The SEL-to-lug fit of this model is as good, if not better than the V3s, and damn close to the gen:
The lume is all blue as well, the hands a bit brighter than the markers, but still all blue, none the less:
Now here's the part I'm the most proud of, if I do say so myself.
I've never done a lume-job before, as I didn't think I'd have the patience for it.I got the correct (gen) color Superluminova from Flavor Flav on Repgeek, and just used a Testors gloss varnish to bind it (with just a dash of Testors white paint
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I was too afraid to lose concentration and screw up my first re-luming in order to shoot the process, so I'll just post what I did.
First, I pushed the markers off the dial from the back with the tip of a sewing needle, soaked them in a bit of nail-polish remover for about 30 seconds--in order to loosen & dissolve the factory lume--then removed it by brushing off the remains with a stiff-bristled, flat 1/4 inch paint brush.
After the markers were cleaned with nail-polish remover, I secured them in Rodico, mixed my lume mixture of equal parts powder & varnish, with just a dash of white-paint & applied it with the tip of a watch-movement oiling needle.
Once it had dried (I gave it three hours to set up) I took a soft, sable-haired 1/4 inch flat paint-brush and after making it damp--not wet--in a bit of the nail polish remover, gently brushed the tops of the markers to smooth the surface of the lume & even it out, making it flat instead of domed, as I'm not a fan of domed markers. I sprayed a bit of Krylon gloss varnish over the tops of the markers, and let them dry again.
To re-affix them to the dial, I mixed up an equal portion of two-ply, clear, waterproof epoxy and applied a minuscule dot of glue to the tiny hole in the dial where the markers sit, then pressed them gently into place with a yakitori bamboo skewer, tipped with Rodico.
After the glue had started to thicken--about five minutes--I took the Rodico off the blunt end of the skewer and gently pressed them down flush with the dial, making sure they were all perfectly aligned.
