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I have just done Mays "batch" of TSTs and I often use a case of my own for setting up each operation, this way if I did get the initial setting or machining wrong it would be on my set up case and not some one elses, in this instance I had a beat up 7040 case but with all the important faces/thread in GREAT condition and it TST'd great.
Normally I have been able to gather a nice/special dial/hands and even a bezel but this time round I have just been unable to get a reply from my source
a pity as he often has come up with super parts, so i had been playing around with ideas and then when i read this thread it got me thinking (painful).
I bought the 6306 dress watch off Stephen quite some time ago with the idea of using the movement at sometime in the future in a 6306 if one came my way needing a movement but after receiving this and giving it a service, superb movement and running about +4 a day last time i checked it i decided to leave as is because the dial/hands imo are pretty nice and i do like blue, the case and bracelet nothing special though.
Have you ever noticed how when servicing a movement some come out just OK, some come out good and some like this one come out really great ? and every thing you have done is the same ?
So i built it up yesterday, all NOS OEM gaskets, 6105 crystal from Jonathan, a Mk2 shroud polished to a gloss finish and a olive oil treated GL831, i am a bracelet guy but my position in that respect is weakening as i do find i am liking straps almost as much at the moment.
ps: In the flesh it looks much better(IMO) than these pictures.
What do you think ?


Normally I have been able to gather a nice/special dial/hands and even a bezel but this time round I have just been unable to get a reply from my source
I bought the 6306 dress watch off Stephen quite some time ago with the idea of using the movement at sometime in the future in a 6306 if one came my way needing a movement but after receiving this and giving it a service, superb movement and running about +4 a day last time i checked it i decided to leave as is because the dial/hands imo are pretty nice and i do like blue, the case and bracelet nothing special though.
Have you ever noticed how when servicing a movement some come out just OK, some come out good and some like this one come out really great ? and every thing you have done is the same ?
So i built it up yesterday, all NOS OEM gaskets, 6105 crystal from Jonathan, a Mk2 shroud polished to a gloss finish and a olive oil treated GL831, i am a bracelet guy but my position in that respect is weakening as i do find i am liking straps almost as much at the moment.
ps: In the flesh it looks much better(IMO) than these pictures.
What do you think ?

