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 Posted: Thu Dec 17th, 2009 05:00 am
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bigrustypig



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 Stu, just my opinion, amigo.........but the easiest way to mod your dial is to stay with the dial BUT just have it simply re-worked, re-coated, re-colored, re-burled or have an expert do something to the original dial that wouldn't depart too much from its weight, thickness and overall dimension.

As for the hands, I know what you mean and for this I think you may have more choices to simply just buy "off the rack" and get installed. For your Debaufre' GMT, I'd be partial to a set of plongeurs but you'd have to live with how the plongeurs interact with the GMT hand.

Have you considered instead these other touches:

1) using a hard to find leather strap at the thickness and color that you've always wanted?

2) getting a buckle/s specially made with cut-outs of your favorite things like cut-outs of a .357, a Stuka, a tank, etc (i'm getting a few buckles with cut-outs of an Exocet, an old B-52 and a 1944 triangular bayonet....it's now a price game for me and the maker)

3) getting the entire case, crown and buckle/s zapped in DLC (this seems to be the fashion nowadays)......you still have the exact same basic watch but cloaked in stealth.....

Again, that's just my opinion but that's the path I'd take.woohoo.gif