u/Ghost_Chrono

🚀Project “Ocean Pearl”:
Transitional 16700 GMT Cartier Custom

Specs:
MOP custom dial
Cartier co-brand
Lab created blue sapphire indexes
Custom created Blue and Red hands
Gen date wheel
Gen crown
Gen gaskets
Gen sapphire crystal
Gen spec BezelJuice Blueberry Insert
Happy Cat Vintage Custom Case
Italian Bracelet
- Movement choices available

🔥Building only 5 of these. 2 are pre-sold.
Feel free to DM me if interested. 🔥

* Picture shown is a mock up. Components now in production.

Congrats to the winner! So happy for my man here and can’t wait to build this for you brutha. I’m a bit jealous lol - this Happy Cat Vintage dial is 🔥🔥🔥.

Sorry for delay in announcement. 📣

2 more contests on the board, make sure you enter those.

All the best!

- Ghost and the Vintage Mod Squad

Whew! Final form. 😮‍💨 Ridiculous time and money went into this to this grail project to get it right. Not quite as bad as what a gen dial goes for: $12k 🙀 (pic 2) or the gen watch…$52k. 🤯

Full transparency, this passion project took over a year to get right and a crazy investment of money and time to do it, so…

I’m going to create just a few limited edition custom builds to offset just a little of that. So if you’d like to get one of these incredible builds on your wrist…

DM me for info.

After that, I want to give other builders the chance to do their thing too with these.

DM me for info.

Thanks to the people who support these efforts - It’s very much appreciated and to my Team that helped make these possible. 💪🫶💪

Good Lord this is one is hot! 🔥

Fresh off the presses….

Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for this one. All I did was buy it 😂.

I know Happy Cat Vintage has been messing around, trying to get this GILT DIAL process nailed down by special request! 😇

And I’d say…they got it! 🚀🚀🚀

First pic is a gen 1967 Gilt Dial 5512 Sub. that I’m going to build for the winner using the HCV GILT DIAL.

Second pic is the dial. Pic quality isn’t great, but the dial is.

RULES ARE SIMPLE:

1. Be a member of this sub
2. Like this post if you do and comment “GILT”
3. Create an ENTIRELY new post on this sub about ANYTHING related to vintage watches. Not something on this thread or a pic down below - but your own post.

It does have to be a real, quality post though. Spam posts get deleted.

HERE’S THE BEST PART:

EVERY TIME YOU POST (up to one time per day), it’s a contest ticket. Post 30 days out of 30…you have a 30x greater chance of winning!!! 🤯

Winner is selected at random
using the wonders of AI.

WE PICK THE WINNER 5 pm on MAY 12 - that’s 5 5/12 (5512). 😃

Need a little inspiration on vintage reps? Feel free to check out partial portfolios of my work. Links below.

Just please credit u/Ghost_Chrono as the source if you use a pic. Get’s a bit confusing when people don’t. 🙏

Also, if you want to buy a case and dial like this from Happy Cat Vintage for your own builds…Always happy to share a resource - DM me and i’ll give you their contact info.

Thanks for all the support and love.

Ghost and the Vintage Mod Squad

****GHOST_CHRONO LINKS:

https://imgur.com/a/Y4JsWhX

https://imgur.com/a/lGqqR70

https://imgur.com/a/wLC4WeY

https://imgur.com/a/6YI9hFu

New Gen Spec bezels x BezelJuice Project 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

I’m really proud of the Team for helping take all components to this insane level of quality and accuracy. 😮‍💨

Happy to finally start building with these. This is also a shameless plug to DM me if you’re interested in
a build.

To other builders, parts are coming soon as inventory gets added.

Thanks for the interest and support in this passion project to make the best restoration and refinished parts available. 🙏

🚀Hey there! It’s time for another r/VintageRepWatches GIVEAWAY!🚀

I’m personally feeling extremely grateful for our growing community and the amazing amount of content and interaction posted by our members. Truly blown away. 🙏

On to the giveaway….

For this one, I’m going back to the classics. A custom built 1680 Red Ghost 🤌.

This is the kind of banger that every vintage watch fan needs in their collection! 🔥🔥🔥

Rules are Simple:

🔥WINNER WILL BE RANDOMLY SELECTED BUT MUST HAVE COMPLETED THE TASKS BELOW TO TAKE THE PRIZE🔥

1. THE UP VOTES

Like this post by tapping the up arrow. Then upvote TEN comments or posts from other people (takes abut 3 seconds).

*Bonus if you make at least one positive comment

2. POST A VINTAGE GRAIL WATCH

We want to hear from you. Make a post of any vintage watch you’d love to own.

If you need some inspiration, feel free to use any of the ones I’ve made.

*My portfolio links are at the bottom.

3. GRATITUDE

When you post your vintage grail watch - Please tell your community about one or more things you’re grateful for. :)

A few things to note below:

*You must be a member of this sub - so hit that Join button :)

* Winner will be selected when we hit 9000 members, so just around the corner!

* The pics I posted on this giveaway are examples of subs I’ve built. I’ll be making one custom for the winner so the pics are just examples of what it could look like. 💪💪💪

* Here are some links to some of my portfolio. Feel free to use any pics you want but please credit the source as “Source: u/Ghost_Chrono” 🙏

https://imgur.com/a/Y4JsWhX

https://imgur.com/a/lGqqR70

https://imgur.com/a/wLC4WeY

https://imgur.com/a/6YI9hFu

- Much Love, Ghost and the Vintage Mod Squad

Big congrats to u/machineFTW. Enjoy your beautiful vintage Panerai my man! I’ll get this posted out Monday.
🚀🚀🚀

This blue purple (Blurple) 1680 gold nipple dial was nearly impossible for us to produce. And even harder to capture on camera. some angles are blueish others purplish.

But here’s the fruit of a year of labor. Changing up a couple last minute things on this and will post more pics soon when done but just wanted to post a progress note. Second pic is the inspiration. Thanks to my team for continuing to work over another weekend with me to get this perfected.

Multiple versions of this on the way with various reference numbers to cover the whole Blurple dial era.

Thanks as always for the support and patience.

☔️💜🚣😮‍💨

This blue purple (Blurple) 1680 gold nipple dial was nearly impossible to produce. And even harder to capture on camera. some angles are blueish others purplish.

But here’s the fruit of a year of labor. Changing up a couple last minute things on this and will post more pics soon when done but just wanted to post a progress note. Second pic is the inspiration. Thanks to my team for continuing to work over another weekend with me to get this perfected.

Multiple versions of this on the way with various reference numbers to cover the whole Blurple dial era. 💜

We made it to 8,000!

Just people who appreciate the same thing—old steel, good builds, and tiny details most of the world will never notice.

That’s what makes this place different.

Every post, every question, every build, every piece of knowledge shared… it all stacks. Quietly. Consistently. And before you know it, you look up and there are 8,000 of us here.

That’s not normal for a niche like this.

It only works because of you guys—the builders, the collectors, the lurkers learning, the ones helping others get their first piece right, the ones chasing that last 2% of accuracy no one else cares about.

That’s rare.

We’ve got a lot more coming—better resources, more builds, and yeah… more giveaways.

But more than anything, we’re focused on keeping this vibe exactly how it is.

Appreciate every one of you.

– Ghost and the Vintage Mod Squad

and which bezel would you rather have as a rep for these?

Big thanks to my Team. The sunburst dials, the custom case…and gold plating on these 🤌They just came out so well, I can’t stop staring. 😮‍💨 I did make a couple extra. My DM’s are always open if you’d like more details. 🙏