Reply With QuoteI do like how the description of the NATOs is still in draft form, which the question as to what material they're made from remaining unanswered
http://www.bamfordwatchdepartment.com/
not a bad customizing site at all, you can even see what the engraving looks like
kinda pricey natos though
http://www.bamfordwatchdepartment.co...TO-Watch-Strap
anybody have one of these mods?
how's that thing go? lorus ipsum
They'll no doubt get a pounding from the Rolex traditionalists, but the yacht master is a definite improvement and the Milgauss series are mostly nice.
Not for me
I wouldn't have thought that version would be more legible at sea under racing conditions than the original, to be honest, quite the reverse ...Originally Posted by guinea
I met Mr. Bamford in Switzerland a while back and he was wearing a really, really nice blacked-out Rolex DSSD. That one is one of few good BWD watches I have seen.
I have mine on order right now:
not bad case and dial work, but the hands are horrific!!!! you cant see it on the images.
There's a chap called "Watch Anish" who has a 'blog / website and also Tweets. He posted a photo of one of these watches, copying in the official Rolex Twitter account. They responded that the watch was not a Rolex, which I found interesting.
Horrible job
I wonder why Rolex would want to distance themselves from it and dis-own any connection with it?
I could live with this
Oh god, I like some of them. Not paying rolex prices x2 for this though.
I wonder why Rolex would want to distance themselves from it and dis-own any connection with it?
Just interesting to see them condemn these things so publically. You don’t – for example – see Seiko being so aggressively anti-modding. Or perhaps you do?
I guess it is because they look so different to their designs, they are a bastardisation of their design and they look pretty awful as well...inho of course.
Rolex will allow modding but only if they do it or it is done by one of their accredited repair agents and only amounts to the exchange of some parts.
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Have you seen the mini-modding industry that's sprung up around Seikos? It's how Bill Yao and Dagaz started out, IIRC.
I have heard of Bill Yao and Dagaz but not explored what they have been doing. I have seen some 'modded Seiko on SC but they look like a normal watch to the un-educated eye like mine.
As it happens I saw someone wearing this blackened Rolex (or a similar model couldn't tell due to distance) in my regular coffee place.
I have to say that it's less "in your face" as I always expected
VA
I could live with this
Black rolex is so last week....
Prohunter also make DLC Rolexes, could have been one of them
http://www.discoverprohunter.com/
do see quite a few Hunter blacked out Rolex around
how does the coating age?
Not my style.
wow. never seen or even heard about this sort of thing before. really interesting
The only one I could get excited about is the Daytona with the Paul Newman dial, but then only to put the dial back into a normal stainless case. I would imagine that for the average Bamford customer the expense of this would be a mere bagatelle. Then again maybe I'll wait for the Smiths George Eyston (or whatever it gets called).
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
This has been discussed on this forum so many times it's really starting to feel like Groundhog Day around here!
This is such a rubbish thing to waste time on, however.
Who in their right mind would black a Cosmo? Honestly, there must be an understanding of what a Cosmo is in the first place, to buy one. It's an important watch, valjoux 72, zenith el primero 4030, the rate was reduced so that it could run reliably with a free sprung overcoil. 4130, the rolex movement, an example of a modern repairable chrono.
The sports watches, maybe, Kamal does it best. Pro hunter.
It's not like paint – it's fussed to the metal, permeating into the surface a good few microns down.
It's inert, so won't be affected by salt water or UV rays.
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