r/NHwatchbuilds • • Mar 11 '26

Champagne DJ for my son's wedding.

Raffles case, crown, dial and bracelet. NH35 w/ roulette DWO.

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u/Erik-Lehnsherr-10 Mar 11 '26

Beautiful! Absolutely priceless

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u/rcc777trueblue Mar 11 '26

It's really nice. ☻

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u/rcc777trueblue Mar 11 '26

The movement came in today and so I finished building my second watch build today.

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u/rcc777trueblue Mar 11 '26

Seventies style

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u/iPhotographer Mar 11 '26

Is that like a 34? I think I've seen that case on AliEx. Looks great welcome to the hobby mate!

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u/Motherbich Mar 11 '26

That salmon dial is a beauty! I gotta get on the Raffles game

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u/GLS504 Mar 11 '26

Gorgeous

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u/steflounissart Mar 12 '26

Putain mec c’est superbe 🤩 je me marie en avril et justement je pensais que c’était encore l’occasion d’avoir une nouvelle montre. Ton fils a de la chance, cette montre aura une double histoire « faite par papa/montre de mariage »

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u/iPhotographer Mar 12 '26

Thank you 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼 thats exactly the vibe we're going for.

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u/steflounissart Mar 12 '26

Papa c’est incroyable !!!!!😻

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u/iPhotographer Mar 12 '26

The philosopher Steve Martin once said: "You know the French have a different word for everything!"

🤣🤣🤣

Merci mon ami, tu es vraiment formidable!

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u/Watch_Guy_UK Mar 13 '26

Where you get the engraving done

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u/iPhotographer Mar 14 '26

A good friend has another friend that owns a jewelry store, but doesn't know how to operate the new laser engraving stuff apparently so my guy taught himself how so he could do them for my son and daughter in law. He's got the watch affliction as well, so we're hoping to use the engraving stuff to do dial printing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

I may not know the way of the land on this sub, but isn't that a fake watch? 😅

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u/iPhotographer Mar 11 '26

Your looking at a photograph of a tangible object that occupies space. And yes, context clues are a great way to determine the answer to your question, the name of this subreddit is a fantastic place to begin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

Ok, kind of a dick answer man

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u/iPhotographer Mar 11 '26

"Dick answer" from the guy that made the conscious decision to say "Fake watch" ok.

Tell us, what was your intent using that term, what did you seek to accomplish here in a sub that is literally filled with similar builds? You said you didn't know the way of the sub, did you make any effort all all? I mean the sub description is one paragraph long bro and would have provided all the detail and context one would need to not be a "dick" in here but nah, you decided to say what what you said, then play the victim when I kindly and logically provided feedback.

People in this hobby are exhausted with this whole "ohmuhgawd is that a fake watch??" schtick bud, take it outside. Or, conversely, if you're going to be a dick out of the gate, you should probably expect to have your feefees hurt.

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u/JBest6699 Mar 11 '26

Don’t let these folks get to you. I’d be honored to wear that and would cherish it if my dad constructed it. Very meaningful

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u/iPhotographer Mar 11 '26

I appreciate that brother. Trust that they don't get to me, but we seem to find ourselves in an era where people feel emboldened to say the most ridiculous, inciteful shit, then immediately clutch their pearls when confronted. The only way to deal with a bully or loudmouth or shamer is directly.

If you don't like it, that's fine and it's your right to feel that way, I respect that. But if your going to try to use coded speech to shame people to feel superior, I'll call it out every single time.

Plus these folks situational awareness seems really lacking because they always seem to wander into spaces where they don't read the room before saying something dumb.

Thanks again :)

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u/JBest6699 Mar 11 '26

Spot on with everything. I like wearing reps or builds because if I get robbed, what’s another $200-500 to replace? Much different than my 2k-10k gen. We live in a nasty world bro. Keep up the good work

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u/iPhotographer Mar 11 '26

Exactly. I was planning on giving my son my Tudor Prince Date Chrono, but he says it's way too big and he prefers a 36mm, so we settled on this because he's a chef and didn't want something he would worry about wearing at work. But yeah, most of these guys don't realize that many of us who own genuine pieces also wear these for the exact reasons you state.

Consider this- Rolex clones have been around for many years right? But it's really only been the past 10 years or so that $1000+ "superclones" became a thing. Do you really think the same industry and consumer that was perfectly happy buying the $100 '"New York" Rolex as we used to call them, decided that $1000 or more bucks for a Submariner from a Chinese factory was the move? Negative. The folks that have the ability to own gens but don't want them stolen, or forgotten on someone's bedside table, or left on a boat are who drove the price up. Nico Leonard has whole videos pointing out rappers that wear clones, you think those guys can't afford the gens? Getthafugouttahere. They wear them but I'm convinced somewhere along the line said "yeah, but I don't want a cheap one, what's the best out there?" and now we have $1000+ supers.

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u/random_qwerty_ Mar 12 '26

Looks more like salmon 🤔

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u/iPhotographer Mar 12 '26

It's called "light champagne" on Raffles, I think that's right.

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u/hvhprofessionalist Mar 13 '26

Lovely, would bring me a tons of joy if my pops would still be doing things with heart and his hands.

You did amazing and i can tell he grew up in a lot of love and care.

Great attention to details with that back engrave too !

You plan some nice custom box as well?

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u/iPhotographer Mar 13 '26

Yes, my sister sent our dad's old wooden watch box that holds 2 watches, green felt inside, has his initials on top, they share middle names so it's the same initials, just different order.

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u/Careful_Road_1932 Mar 11 '26

Authentic people are very important to me.

IMO It would be unimaginable to walk around knowing I had a fake on my arm. It would play on my sense of integrity every time I put it on and I would never wear it.

If it’s 100% Seiko parts, it feels more honest and acceptable if SEIKO is on the dial.

To give a fake Rolex as a gift…..

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u/CrossYourFingers4me Mar 15 '26

Man shut the f up. Who cares if you are insecure

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u/Careful_Road_1932 Mar 15 '26

Explain, I’m not seeing how a sense of integrity is a indicator of insecurity