A new 5513

[Kilowattore]

Vintage 5513 Submariner
A slightly different take​

Hello gents, what I am presenting tonight is my latest 5513 build.





I was inspired by the dial to give the watch a very worn look, with some heavier than usual marks and scuffs. A real heavy duty watch.





Non-matching hands are reasonably common in the vintage Panerai world, while they are quite rare if not non existent in the Rolex world. I thohght they were looking just right in this build. What do you think?



Here is the parts list:

- Cartel donor watch reshaped, aged and polished. Lugs drilled for 2mm springbars
- Sternkreuz low dome T19 plexi
- Cartel insert faded to almost ghost, no pearl
- Vietnam dial with dark mustard markers, beautiful unique dial
- JK hands relumed and aged
- Strap made by an italian strapmaker found on ebay

Some more pics:

























Hope you enjoyed the reading and pics

 

[WingNut]

Beautiful build and photos...

Vintage is GOOD...

Thanks for sharing @Kilowattore

 

[rwatch0]

Beautiful build, the hands although being a bit off at first glance not matching the dial look fine if actually not nice to me. Like service hands added later..
To me you are the champ of CG's, they are just awesome as ever. Your less domed plexi fits the bezel and ghosted insert fine, if that is a Cartel bezel then it is amazing!
It looks like it endured some very heavy duty work, as such, kudos to you again A.

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[Kilowattore]

Thanks guys.
R. I thought the same about the hands