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OK, so I undertook this more as a practice watch for a 6217 that I plan on restoring where somebody had removed all the chrome from the hour batons, I just didn't want to dive in and make a mistake on that watch but I had a 5126-6030 that was nice but was suffering the same fate. Someone probably at some point in the past had scraped all the chrome off the hour markers, most likely to remove the lume fuzz leaving the watch with an odd set of brass markers.
As I use to build plastic model cars, one of the things I use to do to make certain parts more realistically metal looking was to cover them in a product called Bare Metal Foil, so I reached into the parts bin and grabbed some and set about the task of covering each of the hour markers in a chrome foil.
I forgot to take a picture before I started, but I did get one when I was half way through, hopefully it is obvious which half I have done, sorry I am not a better picture taker ???
And heres a quick shot when complete (and before I cleaned the dial to remove other marks.
I think it turned out looking pretty stock, what do you guys think? I used a chrome finish on this one, but may you use a slightly more matt aluminum finish on the 6217-8000..
As I use to build plastic model cars, one of the things I use to do to make certain parts more realistically metal looking was to cover them in a product called Bare Metal Foil, so I reached into the parts bin and grabbed some and set about the task of covering each of the hour markers in a chrome foil.
I forgot to take a picture before I started, but I did get one when I was half way through, hopefully it is obvious which half I have done, sorry I am not a better picture taker ???

And heres a quick shot when complete (and before I cleaned the dial to remove other marks.

I think it turned out looking pretty stock, what do you guys think? I used a chrome finish on this one, but may you use a slightly more matt aluminum finish on the 6217-8000..