pic request: superdome crystal on 5513 with WGS

[TurboTim14]

I love the look of the tall superdome acrylic crystal and have been considering swapping one onto my 5513 Submariner. Anyone with a white gold surround model ever add a superdome crystal? Hows it look? Have seen plenty of pics on the matte dials but not any on the later serials. Mine is a gloss dial L serial from 1989.

Thank you

[athom]

buy a matte dial watch made for acrylic domes...

[Kingface66]

Originally Posted by athom

buy a matte dial watch made for acrylic domes...

How is that helpful with regards to the watch he currently owns?

[1watch]

Haven’t seen any and used to own a transitional 5513 with the correct acrylic crystal. My Mk4 maxi from early eighties looks great with a T19 acrylic crystal. Nice optic distortion of the dial and lume plots.


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[Redmy]

Originally Posted by TurboTim14

I love the look of the tall superdome acrylic crystal and have been considering swapping one onto my 5513 Submariner. Anyone with a white gold surround model ever add a superdome crystal? Hows it look? Have seen plenty of pics on the matte dials but not any on the later serials. Mine is a gloss dial L serial from 1989.

Thank you

I think it would be interesting to see.


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[Toronto Soup King]

My 'beater' Sub. Purists will scoff but I didn't pay a huge amount for the watch and it wears like a dream, and it's not like I'm in charge of the Official Wilsdorf Society or anything, I just like to wear old Rolexes.

https://imgur.com/a/NrjyW2d

[1watch]

Interesting. It doesn’t appear to distort the lume plots like the maxi matte dial optic affect from the pics.


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[stevedssd]

Originally Posted by Toronto Soup King

My 'beater' Sub. Purists will scoff but I didn't pay a huge amount for the watch and it wears like a dream, and it's not like I'm in charge of the Official Wilsdorf Society or anything, I just like to wear old Rolexes.

https://imgur.com/a/NrjyW2d

Wow that does look really good

[TurboTim14]

Originally Posted by Toronto Soup King

My 'beater' Sub. Purists will scoff but I didn't pay a huge amount for the watch and it wears like a dream, and it's not like I'm in charge of the Official Wilsdorf Society or anything, I just like to wear old Rolexes.

https://imgur.com/a/NrjyW2d

Nice! Just what I was looking for. The next time mine goes in for a service I may switch to the superdome for fun. I would keep the original acrylic dome crystal of course. Thanks for sharing!

[Filipão]

Where is this wonderful plexi from? Michael Young's?

[Toronto Soup King]

Originally Posted by Filipão

Where is this wonderful plexi from? Michael Young's?

Plexi (and recut job and in fact the pics themselves) all courtesy of our good friends at LA Watch Works, cheers.

EDIT: The one MY sold me didn't fit, and Edvi over at LAWW replaced it.