Warning, 177L's could be dangerous to your health

[MMs]

Got this watch a while back from Josh.
It didn't run well, didn't keep time, it was a mess. I ended up sending it to Katt to be fixed up
and regulated and all that jazz so I could use it.
It worked well for a while, until one day when I was minding my own business.

Nice weather today there Jefferson.

My wrist explodes. Sounds like the thing unwinds and **** and just blows the hell up.
WTF.

Then it's rattling, one of the movement tabs broke even. It was a violent ending.

This is after it's death.


And here's the front of the poor watch:

Well maybe I can salvage the case and the dial, not sure about the dial.
This thing's a mess now.

update:

just tore the watch down:

the salvage yard after the recycling truck left.

sad day.

the 177 has long been my favorite luminor case pam too. and this was all I had.
I don't have any 111's any more. I sold off my other 177 too. No zeros, no 005's, nothing.

I'm grateful that a 61 is in the mail

 

[Strodda]

what the hell happened? Did the movement snap, whip the hour hand around and blast the lume out?

At least the case is good and the dial looks perfect still, amazingly.

 

[MMs]

yup basically. the movement like imploded and unwound all at once I think.
causing the hands to mega spin and delumify.

that dial is lucky.

 

[karesz501]

OMG, I've never seen something like this. Looks terrific, you are lucky the dial did not damage. What's the plan now? There are a couple guys selling their parts of the new noob 111v3 (apart from the case) after a 390 swap, that dial is really an improvement over older H factories as well as the movement. You might want to give it a try, I built a 177 from my older 176 this way.

Good luck!

 

[TimeFlys]

Holy crap, the hand is bent to hell. I'm surprised the dial came out unscathed.

 

[MMs]

yeah, that's a good idea right there.

buy a 111n V3. take out the guts and put it in this case.
then just sell the 111n V3 case set. brilliant.

 

[karesz501]

yeah, that's a good idea right there.

buy a 111n V3. take out the guts and put it in this case.
then just sell the 111n V3 case set. brilliant.

You do not need to buy the whole cow, mate Tranzmizzion just did a case swap over his 390, and others are doing as well. The inner parts could be up for sale, lets give them a PM and look for their threads in te PAM section

 

[MMs]

oh I understand your point, but it's way cheaper for me to just buy the watch.

 

[razorblade]

This is insane. Its amazing how the dial managed to survive at all.

 

[JellyJoe]

:huh:
I am afraid Katt used C4 instead of C3 for lume.

 

[Calibre16]

Damn, that is crazy. How the hell did it manage to break a movement tab?! Wtf, really.

If you don't care too much about having the correct engravings, you could buy a "sterile" 6497 movement pretty cheap and get the watch working again. Getat has both the movement and superlumed hands for sale so you could order them all from the same place in case you decide to go with the cheap option without a Panerai engraved movement.

 

[karesz501]

:huh:
I am afraid Katt used C4 instead of C3 for lume.

:rofl:

 

[MMs]

okay, here's the plan.

buy a noob 111v3 and take it's movement/dial/hands combo and put it in
this caseset. then,

buy a 390 h factory and take it's movement/dial/hands and put it in the 111
caseset. then,

well then I'd have an extra h factory caseset.


or I could just put a molnija in this one and make it unique.

 

[Rwolf]

no words...

 

[karesz501]

okay, here's the plan.

buy a noob 111v3 and take it's movement/dial/hands combo and put it in
this caseset. then,

buy a 390 h factory and take it's movement/dial/hands and put it in the 111
caseset. then,

well then I'd have an extra h factory caseset.


or I could just put a molnija in this one and make it unique.

Man, you're on fire!