Love this. What model is it? What factory?After waiting for my pick (blue dial) for quite some time I enquired with my TD about an alternate watch. Which was pretty much immediately available, so now have one of those shipping soon (photo attached). Think I'll re-visit a seamaster 300M in the future maybe when they are more available or a newer version rep
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ZF Seamaster has landed
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and what about the crown stripping problem? from reading around it seems like it happens less frequent in the VSF AT's?
I haven't heard about the crown stripping issue for anything besides the VSF SMP300. I suppose the VSF AT could have that issue, but I have not seen information about it.
VSF PO's have it as well. Had it on mine and it have occurred quite early after purchasing. Probably the complete VSF Seamaster range has this issue.
Was looking for a white dial but no TD could source from ZF, so I ordered from ORF instead. The only concern I have is the off-white lume. I'm not the best at judging. Maybe someone else can see something I can't. Thank you for checking this watch out for me!
After I swapped a gen SW200 into my green ZF last year (or maybe it was the year before 
), I was still never too happy with the lume opacity difference between the hands and the indices. On some ZF, the hands lume looks just a little bit translucent so it doesn’t quite match the dial.
After a bit of research I figured I could use a white paint pen to add a layer to the underside to help fill out the lume, and a couple years later, I finally got around to it.
Practiced on some cheap aliexpress hands first to prove my theory, and then dove right in:
Success! Now the hands match the dial perfectly. The last step would be source a gen bracelet or a better ORF one… this “ORF” that I got left a lot to be desired, as the polished links were too tall, and the centre link is super tall. I might just live with straps or a Forstner for the time being.
), I was still never too happy with the lume opacity difference between the hands and the indices. On some ZF, the hands lume looks just a little bit translucent so it doesn’t quite match the dial. After a bit of research I figured I could use a white paint pen to add a layer to the underside to help fill out the lume, and a couple years later, I finally got around to it.
Practiced on some cheap aliexpress hands first to prove my theory, and then dove right in:
Success! Now the hands match the dial perfectly. The last step would be source a gen bracelet or a better ORF one… this “ORF” that I got left a lot to be desired, as the polished links were too tall, and the centre link is super tall. I might just live with straps or a Forstner for the time being.
Looks the business. Great work!After I swapped a gen SW200 into my green ZF last year (or maybe it was the year before
After a bit of research I figured I could use a white paint pen to add a layer to the underside to help fill out the lume, and a couple years later, I finally got around to it.
Practiced on some cheap aliexpress hands first to prove my theory, and then dove right in:
Success! Now the hands match the dial perfectly. The last step would be source a gen bracelet or a better ORF one… this “ORF” that I got left a lot to be desired, as the polished links were too tall, and the centre link is super tall. I might just live with straps or a Forstner for the time being.
That looks nice. It's weird how the ZF line looks yellow too in some photos but is white in person. I have the same watch and I've noticed the same in some pics.After I swapped a gen SW200 into my green ZF last year (or maybe it was the year before
After a bit of research I figured I could use a white paint pen to add a layer to the underside to help fill out the lume, and a couple years later, I finally got around to it.
Practiced on some cheap aliexpress hands first to prove my theory, and then dove right in:
Success! Now the hands match the dial perfectly. The last step would be source a gen bracelet or a better ORF one… this “ORF” that I got left a lot to be desired, as the polished links were too tall, and the centre link is super tall. I might just live with straps or a Forstner for the time being.
And yes. That bracelet SEL doesn't look like it's ORF. The polished part is curved instead of flat.
And I've sent my watch for the same movement swap too! Getting an SW200 in since the current movement is giving me trouble. Absolutely love my ZF and with the movement swap, it'll be the perfect rep.
The yellow is just the lume activated slightly, gen looks just like that too. For ZF at least. VSF has fucked up yellow color always.
Ahhh. That makes a lot of sense. Because, in person, it looks very white. And yes. I've noticed gens at the AD look that way too. Only difference I saw was the the markers and lume on the gen appeared very glossy. Like there was some extra gloss clear coat on it.
Oops just to correct myself here - it was a Gen ETA 2824-2 swap, not the SW200. Mixed it up with a 1016 build I just finished… and the SW300 swap I did on an IWC rep (also ZF lol)
The AR on my seamaster has lots of tiny scratches!
Been reading, this seems to be an issue with the genuine models too (not all but some) If it gets really bad, I'll be looking at polishing it out with a cape cod cloth.