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  1. I prefer the Nanuq Quick Winder.
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  3. Complete waste of time. Go buy a gen for $8k and call it a day. The cheapest movement I have ever seen was $3k or more and complete case was $2500.
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  4. Yep, I agree, the first rule of fight club is 'don't talk about fight club' It would be much more worthwhile trying to find a rep friendly watchsmith who you may be able to get to do some work for you in the future if needed, than stepping up the game in an attempt to get feedback on it's 'quality' in the watch world. Is isn't a gen, sales people and smiths are not familiar with aesthetics of these on the outside enough to know the difference. Even an AD might be fooled. The vast vast majority of gen forumites would be fooled, they haven't a clue, unless some smart [censored] rep fan goes on to gen forums and starts pointing out the 'tells' as has happened in the past. Here's a few threads to browse, and these people are familiar with the gen: http://tz-uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=173337&st=0&sk=t&sd=a http://forums.watchuseek.com/f441/new-po-fake-542065.html http://forums.watchuseek.com/f441/fake-po-42mm-looks-very-real-554007.html http://forums.watchuseek.com/f441/one-real-purchased-wus-521803.html http://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/newly-acquired-pre-owned-planet-ocean-42mm-557621.html The quality of the watch is there to see, as can be seen from the countless reviews and teardowns on it across the forum, the only ones able to tell would be the rep forumites and those who are not rep enthusiasts but 'very' familiar with the gen. So on some occasion you would eventually run into some guy who does know the watch extremely well and can tell from the AR or pearl that there is something 'off'. I've heard of occasion where some people attempt to validate their watch by getting cheekier and trying out the AD test, why I don't know, it's not worth it, most won't recognize and if they did, and you have the watch off your wrist while they are examining it, it may well be confiscated and destroyed. Not trying to be dramatic wetwork, just saying that the watch is a good one, wouldn't worry about the local trade seeing the minute differences....not gonna happen...just enjoy it for what it is. A watch that looks great and is 98% of the gen for 5% of the gen price! Congrats Vandel you got your stash through customs finally.
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