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    Hello World.

    Hi from Canada.

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    Might be a familiar screen name to some of you.

    I've been working on several projects since you might've last seen commentary by me.

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    to the Forum, Dimman.

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    MWC is that my watch's Avatar
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    well are they home made dials the first two ? sound like that could be a interesting back story the second paragraph that is ? we are an easy going bunch here with mutual respect given and wanted so sound like you might fit in well on the builds / mods sub - forum
    “Better to be a broken piece of jade than an intact piece of pottery.”

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    well are they home made dials the first two ? sound like that could be a interesting back story the second paragraph that is ? we are an easy going bunch here with mutual respect given and wanted so sound like you might fit in well on the builds / mods sub - forum
    The two dials are projects I'm slowly working on. The skull is classical tin bronze for a client, the Hokusai wave is sterling silver for myself. The chrono is a Swiss parts collection assembled into a functional watch, and the case pieces are also a project I'm working on.

    But things go slow when there is career and life in the way.

    The last bit was venting, but I'm not going to address it anymore.

    I like to think about how things are made and how to make things.

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    yes like me I build my own watches mainly use 3602 Russian movements / dials but do use a 6497/98 too have thought about doing my own dials after have a few damaged one and stripping them back to the base metal,

    but have not gone any further nearly bought a skull see through dial for a build I was doing not sure on them still but like the silver one seen some great dial coming out of russia with brass cut out shapes for a fit on a 3602 or 6498/97
    “Better to be a broken piece of jade than an intact piece of pottery.”

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    These two are for 2824s. Part of the reason is that these are quite a bit thicker than the standard 0.40mm brass dials, so I need the greater hand height options. But I do have a case made for 0.80mm 6497/8 that is in the queue, maybe in the fall I'll have time.

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    tend to stay to the 64 as cheaper movement was going to do a diver build but the prices of some of the movements are steep but did notice the clone movement price are a lot better but still can be high where a 64 is very reasonable even if you have to modify them to take a no -sub dial dial
    “Better to be a broken piece of jade than an intact piece of pottery.”

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    Hey dimman. I remembered your name from the old place when I approved you (sorry for the delay BTW - we get literally hundreds of spammers signing up each week), but it's been a while. So remind me: are you a watchmaker then, or what?

    You needn't concern yourself about politics and misinformation here - it just does not happen here.
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