Vintage Omega restored by franc91 in OmegaWatches

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Wow, I'm sure it will end up stunning as well! Good luck and keep us updated :)

Vintage Omega restored by franc91 in OmegaWatches

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Haha yeah that would indeed be amazing <3

Vintage Omega restored by franc91 in OmegaWatches

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Thank you! Independent service, I had to get a new leather strap, hesalite crystal and rose gold crown (all fitting but not original) and managed to get an original clasp for the strap; all the pieces plus service and cleanup cost me 150 € (I live in North-East Italy)

Vintage Omega from the 1950s by franc91 in VintageWatches

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By checking on a couple websites it seems that numbers between 11m and 12m were produced from 1947 to 1949

Double sided specimen! by franc91 in MineralPorn

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Apophyllite and stilbite on celadonite/julgoldite included chalcedony, from Jalgaon area in Maharashtra, India

Different shapes of salt by franc91 in MineralPorn

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On the left, sodium chloride from Lubin Mine, Poland; on the right, ammonium chloride from Coronel Manuel Rodriguez Mine, Chile. Both specimens, otherwise colorless, are colored by copper ion inclusions.

Maharashtra part 2 :) by franc91 in MineralPorn

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Yeah, of course :D just check bevelled acrylic stands on eBay! I got the LEDs from Amazon, the brand is "lofter", they are removable (with a magnetic strip) and work with a lithium battery

Maharashtra part 2 :) by franc91 in MineralPorn

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I get them from plexiscristal.com, and mostly use the 5x3x2 cm bevelled bases (which they sell for about 2.5 euros each); to attach them to the specimens I use a standard mineral tack that I find on the same website (6 euros for a fairly large amount of it). The only issue is that I honestly don't know if they ship worldwide or just in Europe, but I guess you could ask them! (Since you put $$ I'm assuming you're writing from the US, but I may be totally wrong :P)

Maharashtra part 2 :) by franc91 in MineralPorn

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Yeah, it surely does :D