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7 hours ago, ro63rto said:

That's a good looking mod emoji106.png

Are the markers and hands luminous?

Where did you get the parts from?

Thanks. 

The dial is the 'Fuller 6 O'clock Special' from Jake (Dagazwatch.com) . It's awesome quality with polished lume filled markers. all round. 

Hands are from Dagaz also except the electric blue seconds from harold (yobokies)

And AR sapphire crystal from yobokies also

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Desk diving today with Seiko 6309-7040 from Dec 1984. Has been reworked with new hands, dial, bezel insert and case base been lightly polished. This is one of the easiest wearing divers watch I've had the pleasure to slap on my wrist and fits ok under the sleeve of a dress shirt. This case style originally came with a black bezel but the guy I bought it from fitted a 'Pepsi' bezel. Looks good and it'll probably stay this way.

I have to say the quality of aftermarket parts is really goods these days..the only problem with the ones here is the poor lume.

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Close up of the dial..alignment of the '150m' could be better!P_20160810_083311_1_p.jpg

Anil 

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I was looking at Jeffc83 posting showing the Helbros, in my travels I picked up a Gruen for spares/ repair that bears a remarkable similarity, I was attracted by the date at 6 and it does tick for a while so I live in hope.

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Makes me wonder if there was a relationship between Helbros and Gruen but apart from the American connection there does not seem to be one

Cheers,

Vic

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Breaking away from Seiko's for a change, i saw this and had to give it a work over :) 

Swiss Made but assembled in England, the case design is awesome, smooth curved lines contrasted with straight and angular hands/indices, and that seconds hand just tipped me over the edge :D

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Ok so it's seikotime.  This is another "bitser"  that I've made up.  I went through a phase of these things.  It's an early 1960's seiko 8306 Sealion that I made up from my parts bin.  The movement is a low /hi beat (pending on how you look at it at 18000) 30 jewel unit.  Probably it's most interesting feature is the winding mechanism.  You can hand wind it or it self winds using a fairly complex, but very smooth and compact inversion roller type mechanism.  A nice change from the "magic arm"  so common in seikos. I just couldn't find any more original dials so it got a Seiko 5 pilot type one and  grafted it onto it.  It doesn't really reflect what's under the hood  (but I know and that's what counts),  but it's produced a nice daily wearer. 

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