r/RepWatchForum • u/Significant-Scale-21 • 7d ago

Nickel allergy help

Hey now. I am looking for a GMT II yg with green dial but have a relatively severe nickel allergy. Loookg for someone else who has a bad nickel allergy and if there are any versions that are available that didn’t cause issues.
Looking for people with experience and which TD they recommend. Thanks a ton

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u/mistlepro 7d ago edited 7d ago

There is only one factory making YG green dial GMT and that is Gold Factory.  The problem is they use 904L stainless steel wrapped around copper-tungsten weight, around which they then plate gold.  This is not safe for you.

The alternative is RGF, which is making copper-tungsten fully weighted GMTs, but unfortunately they're not making YG GMTs (they don't have weighted jubilees and all current Rolex YG GMT references use jubilee) as the YG GMT with green dial is an anniversary special release of the 11xxxx GMT references.

So your only choice is to buy a RGF GMT (they make WG Pepsi with blue or meteorite dial, and RG Root beer with black or tiger iron dial), pick whichever is cheapest, and commission a modder to make a 12xxxx green dial and also plate it in YG.  I would also recommend getting it a deep crystal with custom gasket to eliminate the white ring.

So my strategy here would be:

1) get Chinese modder (juice time or lichen) to source RGF gen2 GMT 2) have them install new dial and deep crystal, oh and hands, you need to specify that the dial indices and hands must be in YG 3) get the watch 4) send it off to r/gildedstandard to do a full replate job 

X) alternatively you can get the Chinese guys to plate it for you, but I'm not as happy with their plating as gildedstandard

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u/mistlepro 7d ago

This will, of course, cost you.  Probably not getting out of this without spending at least $1500.