Happy New Year! Haven't been by here in a while.. My latest

[Duarte]

RN diver, a long time grail.

[Steve B]

Very nice Duarte, a superb piece, now if only I can find one of them this year I'll be a very happy man!!
:D

[davide]

I just missed one of these before Xmas and am still in mourning.

There is one for sale on WatchUSeek forums - seems pricey and has been polished - assuming it is genuine - but seems OK to me.

[magirus]

What a lovely piece. That's a keeper if ever I saw one!

[Duarte]

Thanks everyone!. Here are some more views

[Duarte]

and a minor repair performed. This civilian SM300 was not handwinding as it should. Since everything else worked fine, I narrowed the possible causes down to a few parts. I orderd a new winding oinion, set bridge and stem.

The caseback is removed on my new Horotec benchtop case opener, with the handy non-marring suction dies:








The winding pinion was worn...




and the set bridge was worn also..



all done











Now just waiting on some new Omega tension ring crystals, so I can test water resistance.

[Stokport]

Oh, man! Those tools and your pictures are so sweet.

Thanks for posting - very interesting.

Cheers

Henrik

[xpatUSA]

Good pics, nice tools, nice sequence and a cool comparison mil vs. civ thrown in. Excellent job!

Ted

[Timelord]

Nice one. Happy New Year to you too :)