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Frans
PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:34 am 
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I like Roman numerals.
So I fooled around a bit in Photoshop, to get an idea (I know its not perfect) how a Navitimer 01 would look like with them.


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I love Romans but that looks horrendous. Nice job with Photoshop though.

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mfserge wrote:
I love Romans but that looks horrendous. Nice job with Photoshop though.
+1 on loving the Roman indices. :) Howsomever, I do like the Romans on the Navi 01 as rendered. Very different yet very interesting and attractive IMO. Great job!
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Yea gotta admit it seems to work pretty well. Kinda like it ;)
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The Romans I used, come off a Chronomat 44.
I tried also to find Romans of a Evo, or Crosswind, but the ones I found didn't match the rest of the watch.
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I think I looks really good, works with the layout of the dial. Nice job!
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I think it looks better than the Arabic numbers, I was never a fan of the Arabic numbers on the Navi

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maybe look at the Spatiographe, Frans ?
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Hi Fred,

Thanks, I didn't knew that model yet.
To be honest; I don't realy like those Roman numerals.
For me the Navitimer is a gracious watch and those numerals don't do it justice.
I have the same opinion about the Arabic Numerals; just not gracious enough.
I will fiddle around a bit more in Photoshop, to see if I can come up with something better.
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I made another attempt, to create a Navi 01 with Roman Numerals.
This time I made them out of scratch in Photoshop, because I couldn't find any suitable numerals.

First the one I made previous with the Numerals of a Chronomat 44, to make it easier to compare them;

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And of the other one I made two variations;

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Personally, I like the last ones more.
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Love the work, Frans! :D If it isn't too much trouble, I would love the see the black version enlarged to the size of the gold case Navi pics and even better a black version with the Romans shown in the bottom pic?... Thank you so much. :)
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You mean the version, where also the subdials are black, or?
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Frans wrote:
You mean the version, where also the subdials are black, or?
No, just the one in your top picture although I would love to see a black dial black subs version as well....
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I haven't been able to find a picture of a black subdialed watch.

To save myself some time, I just turned the gold Romal numerals into black & white and fitted them into the steel/black version.
Anyway, you should be able to get an idea how it would look like with those numerals in reality.

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Frans wrote:
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PERFECT!! Thank you so much, Franz! May I suggest sending that pic to Breitling and tell them here should be the newest model Navi for next year's Basel?!
Thanks, again. :D
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