Deep Blue Copycat Duo Part I of II – Alpha Marine 500

I circled back...so the ARABICS are in the NEGATIVE on the lume dial...always my favorite eye candy DBAN...even though I never possessed 1... honest reading your thread gives me greater vicarious pleasure than owning 1... ty
 
Nice. Congrats. How do you get those tiny collars back in the bracelet without falling on the ground and losing them. Is there a secret to sizing these.
This one was just a simple cotter pin, as I recall, not pin and sleeve/collar. So, just aligning the segements, and tapping the cotter pin back into place.

I have come across some pin and sleeve bracelets with the tiny sleeve, and they can extremely frustrating. Can't remember which watch, but just sized one, in fact, with a very short collar on the inside of a multi-link bracelet. I think the worst was Seiko, where the sleeve goes into the outside of the link, and you have to have one pin punch, sized small enough to push the pin, from the one side, and another pin punch, sized to where it can hold the sleeve bit inside the bracelet link on the opposing end, and then you have to push from both sides at once, until the sleeve locks in place.

I took my other Seiko, like that, to a jeweler, and even he hated adjusting that one, haha.

Only secret I know is patience, of which I have very little sometimes. Right tools too, of course, and I've steadily added until having a good range -- the screw type, the bracelet cradle and hammer set up, of course, and a range of sizes for the pin punchers.

Other than that it's been trial and error on the pin and sleeve type. Has also helped to take the bracelet off of the watch, in some situations, especially if the case weight is making the bracelet flop around, or tough to keep stabilized.

I did lose a collar on a watch pin, years back, but, since I'd removed quite a few links, I just robbed one from a spare link.
 
DANG! Color ME jell-jell! I have been lusting in my heart for this very Deep Blue for what seems like years, though that can't be, as the watch hsn't been around all that long! I dunno, but there's just something about that blue-on-blue of theirs that causes, well, THIS:

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It's a condition known as Drool on DROOL!!

SoooOOOooo, my young Jedi Knight, CONGRATULATIONS on this super-bosso-KEEN acquisition, a case of double blue causing this Mouse to go
DOUBLE GREEN!! And this site truly IS the best of them all!! Well done, Miguel!! :wink:
That you, Sir!
 
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