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| Mk II Sea Fighter | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 12:21 am |
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srh_pres 3T WIS 
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Came across this one and something just grabbed me about it. Pre-order opens soon and I may just jump on one. Anyone have any experience or opinions on the MkII timepieces? Pic from MkII website... http://www.mkiiwatches.com/WSWrapper.jsp?mypage=cd03d.htm
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 12:32 am |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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I've seen a few of the watches of that brand around online. Don't know much about them. That looks interesting though. Simplistic! Will have to wait and see full specs on it though. Cool find Steve. ;)
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 08:14 am |
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Tony Duronio 3T WIS 
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Steve, MK2 is Bill Yao famous for all the Seiko dial mod options. He has been making one off customs like that for a will and all are high quality pieces. The only knock was that they were smallish..........with that one at 42.5.........your gonna love ithand6.gif
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 08:46 am |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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I have a couple Yao mods and they are Awesome!....the vintage Fifty Fathoms style is very hot right now and I am waiting on Eddie Platts version out soon hopefullyhand6.gif the Sea Fighter has a very clean look to it!cool10.gif
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 08:50 am |
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Tony Duronio 3T WIS
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oagaspar wrote: I have a couple Yao mods and they are Awesome!....the vintage Fifty Fathoms style is very hot right now and I am waiting on Eddie Platts version out soon hopefullyhand6.gif the Sea Fighter has a very clean look to it!cool10.gif Gumba, I wouldn't call this a Mod...Bill builds these from the ground up..High grade ETA 2824's, metal movement retainers, 300m WR, etc. though the dials and hands are from his Mod collection:)
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 09:31 am |
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Danny S 3T WIS 
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Not only are Bill Yao's MkII watches top notch, Bill is a great guy as well. hand6.gif   
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 09:37 am |
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srh_pres 3T WIS
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Thanks for the info guys (and that's a good looker there Dan). He is calling the Sea Fighter 'based on the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms', but built up from scratch with Swiss made and custom versions. I think this one is definitely in my sights... hand6.gif
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2007 09:42 am |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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Tony Duronio wrote: I never said it was a mod T ? I said I own a couple of his mods:D this case is widley produced and is either Asian or a Fricker...not sure which Bill is using and is used by many manufacturers....Bill makes great watches and he is assembling along with final QC/CS as you stated...you will note the disclaimer at the bottom of his page about Blancpain/Swatchhand6.gif Bill is also using the Selitta SW200 unless he found some eta's but that was what was last noted on his page and the SeaFighter is 200m wr...I have been following this watch since the release of the Stingray which is basically the same watch just different aesthetics/hands,markers and crown positionwatch2.gifthere will be a Swiss Made version for pre-order and a non Swiss Made as well:) Here is a link to Eddies LE PRS-50 which is more than a homage imho...using the movement in the LE as Blancpain did in the original and a non LE using the etahand6.gif http://www.tz-uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29340 oagaspar wrote: I have a couple Yao mods and they are Awesome!....the vintage Fifty Fathoms style is very hot right now and I am waiting on Eddie Platts version out soon hopefullyhand6.gif the Sea Fighter has a very clean look to it!cool10.gif Gumba, I wouldn't call this a Mod...Bill builds these from the ground up..High grade ETA 2824's, metal movement retainers, 300m WR, etc. though the dials and hands are from his Mod collection:)
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2007 12:30 pm |
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Paxman 3T WIS 
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Man, I realy need to watch Eddie's site a little.. that looks sweet. But back to the MKII in Steve's original post. I thing it too looks tops!! I might consider this myself...
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