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 Posted: Thu Jan 10th, 2013 03:21 pm
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Holy Cow! Now that is one tank of a case you got there! Cool.
and +1 on strap-size-issue

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 Posted: Thu Jan 10th, 2013 03:31 pm
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budda jones, coq straps for the shark, the stock rubber modded was by casemaker esdee... time was against him welding in a pre-v buckle...

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heres images of the prototype- notice the crudeness of the cut stock strap (it may have been a stock citizen one!)

again this relates to its being a prototype never produced commercially. I am no expert but as far as I am aware there were 4 different dial designs also, one was engraved in brass (painted and lumed), one was a reverse-lume plexi dial, and two other variants. The rubber strap, particularly given how crudely it was cut never appealed to me, but on it seems somehow appropriate. I am looking for a 20mm preV screw-in buckle to see if I will keep it in this configuration.

the watch is a real tool watch and the more crude rubber strap seems somehow right when on....









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mellons wrote:
budda jones, coq straps for the shark, the stock rubber modded was by casemaker esdee... time was against him welding in a pre-v buckle...This Coq guy should learn that you don't tighten as hard the stitches on soft leather like on the hard one...
He should also learn that when the customer order a 21mm, he don't want a 22mm notched.
Even that: He did the notching dirty.
Sorry but I was making straps myself and did quit because the Asian competition would have forced me to work at 1$/hour: That's because I didn't want to send some fast dirty work like Coq is doing.
The notching of the rubber wasn't good either: You should not care about how it was done on the original as maybe the guy who did it then, had 4 tumbs and was apparently not a strap guy at all...They just needed a pic and they did cut the rubber as they could: Period...

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The notched 22mm strap again was as per gen (there are other period images of a 22mm noched sharkskin also): the stock rubber moddded was again to be close to gen: pure personal preference.

I have other "proper" straps that i will try on but dor me its also interesting to get close to what was done 30 years ago...

Lol I guess its like someone putting a gunny with a crudely written 74 on an fiddy!

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Oh, I get you Mellons with the 74 drawn with blue pen-ball: No thanks! On my side, I don't care about so called original straps: Many are just tool straps fitted by no-taste guys back in the days when they numbered them straps to find out who's watch was who's in the diver regiment after a drunken night playing strip-poker...?
Who cares about that crap: The watch comes first.
Lucky them, those guys who just want to have the exact same strap as the original vintage: That the number wasn't 69 and that the first military owner didn't draw a flying dick right under...
Coz I'm sure that some clowns from replicunt@forum.cum would have worn that all day long, feeling like badass diving cockmandos...
Sorry for being rude but I see a lot of non-sense plagia there...

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Lol no worries each to their own! I guess some people like the feeling of getting close to a classic piece without the cost and being able to wear it normally...

For this piece the modded rubber feels right for me on...and the crude notching adds to it for some reason!

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Hammerfjord wrote:
?..replicunt@forum.cum.......

Interesting name though lol

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mellons wrote:
Lol no worries each to their own! I guess some people like the feeling of getting close to a classic piece without the cost and being able to wear it normally...

For this piece the modded rubber feels right for me on...and the crude notching adds to it for some reason!


The feeling can never be there anyway amigo: It's like wearing a good Rolex replica...You may fool people around you but each time you look at it, you know that you wear crap.
I have some homages myself and wear them for what they are: I don't scratch them on the concrete walls, I don't dip my dials in tea and I don't hammer my straps with a pick-axe to feel like I own a vintage collector...
For your watch, I would have gone for a deep brown oiled leather set of straps: I've seen it here on some Ennebi and it looked great.

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mellons wrote:
Hammerfjord wrote:
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Interesting name though lol


The domain is free, please guys reserve it before I change my minddog smile.gif

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Lol its catchy!

Atm i have it on an isofrane from timefactors and have another darker brown one next.... All part of the fun!

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That's a beast mellons!!! I like it!!! thumbsup.gif

As you noted, quite the industrial tool!!!bravo.gif

Thanks for the additional reference info to the prototype Panerai Mille Metri. I certainly see where Ennebi Fondale got the inspiration for their cases.

Enjoy that very cool tool!

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