Royal Navy’s Vintage Seamaster 300

[Mir36]

@Mir36
J. How does it feel sitting on your wrist?

Sublime



Traded a grail for a grail. All is right in the world. Thanks so much M!

[madasboot]

@Mir36
J. How does it feel sitting on your wrist?

Sublime



Traded a grail for a grail. All is right in the world. Thanks so much M!

Looks good on you and the pic does it justice!
I am happy that it came out of the box and into your wrist.

Same with yours, obviously

But the beer on my next Saturday.

Hug
M.

[madasboot]

Thank you madasboot: you just saved me from ruining a set of hands!
.... and what a superb Seamaster: a build to aspire to.
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Hi thanks for the compliment.
I can tell you how to age hands in two different ways with similar results.
Just let me know if the hardest or the softest.

Best,
Marco

[ogladio]

Spectacular build! Such effort, patience and attention to details. Hands down the best 165.024 big triangle build seen on the forums.

Was thinking about buying one of these back in 2011 - with price development last ten years, maybe it’s time to try and build one…

[Emilio]

@madasboot I would say this fit in the dive watches section

http://homage-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=60

Nicest example I've seen in a long time, congratulations

[toofsy]

Really nice piece, I'm curious to see the wider crown side with another angle.

[madasboot]

Hi @toofsy
Is this the angle you asked for?

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I usually document my processes and from this watch I only have pictures of the insert making available.

The watch has found a new owner 3 days ago.
A friend, someone special who will give it the wrist time I was not able to.

[toofsy]

[madasboot]

@toofsy
one more

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[madasboot]

For me the definition of homage is a 1:1 output disregarding some of the wild thesis and theories I had been reading around.
So replica and homage are the same thing, with variable degrees of achievement.
On the other hand, most of the old watches available today in the market - some of them usef as references - are far from being the genuine thing; serviced, cannibalized, “upgraded” they set a “genuine” price no longer being genuine at all.
Most of the ones I have seen are clearly worse looking than most of the decent homages around.

But this consideration is not the point.
Building my homages for long I cannot consider the results being a personal achievement but, most of the times involving helping hands.
In this case, result would not be possible without @Athaya.

The most difficult part is doing an insert from scratch, and I used several sources before I had the finest engraving.
A. did it. Hats off to him on this and on everything he has been contributing for our better results.

Here is the raw insert:

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And here is my first lume wash in it:

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Military SM300 had intermediate markers in white (non glowing).