That looks FANTASTIC! Thanks for the photos! This is something I am so looking forward to! Thanks Torsten

 

Looks great, thank you Torsten.

 

So, are indices green or white? I keep hearing it's just the camera flash making it look green. What do your eyes see, Torsten?

 

That looks great!! Cannot wait for mine!!

 

Looks like it's coming together.

 

I would ask: how does the inner rotating bezel feel and work? The photos don't show it lined up precisely.
Is that to show that it is moveable, or is it that it is too loose to keep on a target time?

 

The watch looks awesome! One question though: are the minute dots on the bezel lumed? Not a dealbreaker by any means, just being curious :-d

BTW, the notch in the case at the crown does look very useful, nice touch!

 

Sorry don't recall. We will have to ask Thomas next time we see him.

 

@Illyria
The lume and the markers on the bezel are green and NOT white. In my humble opinion the color of the markers match the dial and overall appearance of the watch.

@Seikohog
The bezel swivels smoothly and freely. It remains in a chosen position once set. It is not lined up on the picture because we were playing around with the watch.

 

Looks great!! Well done.

 

I think it should be a yearly ritual to have the blue colored rotor. That looked awesome on last years project and would help this years rotor pop a little more.

Cant wait to receive the watch tho. As a whole it looks amazing. Would definitely like to c a lume shot

 

Wow.
This piece looks to be quite well put together. The overall fit and quality kinda exceeded expectation.

Unfortunately, the green lumes make it look.. erm.. different from what I was picturing it to be.
It didn't give off the 'vintage' diver look I was kinda hoping with the styling.
Would have been perfect if they are white, cream or vintage yellowish.

The rotor looks just decent or, in fact, abit 'rough' if were to nit-pick.
Perhaps expectation was raised by the original rendering artwork. Maybe adding some 'edge' or 'border' will sort of 'complete' the look?

Still, a very good/wearable piece! Huge applause and salute to the committee to have dragged us to the finishing line!

 

I look forward to seeing this in person! I can appreciate the growing murmur about green markings, as I don't remember that being in the schematics. However, I don't mind the green at all, it actually it looks really good to me. Over all it appears to be a very well proportioned watch. Great work, guys!

 

Switch it to BGW9 lume. It's white, glows blue, an just as bright.

 

I must say that the green lume is starting to bug me, especially due to the color difference between the markers and the bezel dots.
What lume is actually used on the watch? Is it superluminova C3, is it superluminova at all? How is the brightness? Having green dots would make things even. The green on the dial markers and bezel seem to be of a different green tint?

The Dragon artwork is different from the artwork that won the vote. What is most noticeable is the blank space around the outside of the rotor, it would have been nice if the artwork covered the visible part of the rotor. Maybe this is not possible due to technical limitations?
See artwork #4

Also, I do not remember what was decided between pins and screw for the bracelet, but it's kind of a bummer if we do not receive what was decided. This is not a big deal, but it adds up to the lume and artwork issues.

 

The artwork at the back is disappointing.

 

the main difference is the art work in our drawing is lines being darker than back ground, while in reality the line is lighter than back ground. Does look as good, but still okay in my book.

 

True that artwork was the final design.

In the post below you can see hked mentioning the extra plate that is needed for the dragon.
https://www.watchuseek.com/f497/201.../f497/2012-wus-cmw-se-project-design-thread-reloaded-730750-48.html#post5415181

That must have been lost in the depth of the thread

 

Many thanks for posting. Can't wait, cheers

 

Great! Love the prototype, looks MUCH better here than in the first 2 photos.
One thing, I notice there isn't any engraving on the caseback, is that because its the prototype?

 

The text engraving will be the final step and the prototype hasn't been engraved.

 

I have to be honest. I would have preferred white hour markers, too.

 

First of all, thank you Torsten for the photos and thorough inspection of the prototype.

Second, in my opinion the rotora engraving looks good, no problem with that.

Lastly, however, I am seriously disappointed with the green color of the indices. That bothers me a lot, unfortunately, as it completely changes the overall appearance of the watch.
Can we please change it to white/grey/cream as was designed?
what happened to the dial?
let me again paste the first photo that appeared as the first production shot:

it sure looks white/grey/cream and that was fine. The green indices on the proto do not match the color of the WUS logo and inscription on the dial.
Was this dial not lumed yet?

 

Agree - even Tan/White lume would be a lot more awesome :<

 

Fairly happy with what I have seen.

One small thing, the numbers 3,6,9,12 inside the triangles seem...too thin..I would personally prefer to not have numbers inside the triangles.

 

The very green lume is disappointing not what I was expecting at all. However I can live with it if I have to. That rotor on the prototype is not very nice though it looks like a thin metal sticker is applied on top of the decorated rotor you can even see it lifting at the corner in one photo.

 

Following the discussion about the lume color I would like to know what lume type and color is used in the prototype?
According to the chart below it seems the C5 is used.

 

It was supposed to be C3.
according to this chart, BGW9, C3 dense, C1, and even natural would also be ok.

for reference only - this is maratac c3: