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I'm about to sell an old MBW 1665 from more than 10 years ago and it's been through hell (twice) and still works perfectly.

I'm not sure if what we are seeing is not the future of Reps. When most of us "old guys" started here and on the old RWG and other forums, China was a totally different country than what it is today. Ten years or so back, there were no international luxury brands to speak of in China. Today, China is one of the biggest and most lucrative markets in the world. The rising middle class, and the wealthy entrepreneurs have totally changed the dynamics. When there was no Rolex in China (Except for reps), the Chinese Government couldn't give a Rats A** about whether or not Rolex SA was upset because there were millions of fake Rolex watches coming out of China. Now, Rolex is well established, and they have some degree of clout with the Government. Just using Rolex as and example, there are now hundreds of Luxury goods producers selling their wares in China. I believe that we will see more and more interest by the authorities in anything they deem counterfeit goods. The Chinese Government makes a lot of money on import duties on luxury items, they don't want to put that in jeopardy. They don't make a thing off reps, except for the bribes to local officials, which doesn't put money in the treasury. I like most of the previous posters, don't think that the rep trade will disappear completely, but if factories are constantly raided, at some point in time the owners will throw in the towel and find something legit to produce. There are lots of ways to stop the flow of goods. If the factories get shut, what happens to the dealers? Suppose your trusted Dealer had and order in for say 200 watches at 150.00 USD each, the factory gets raided, maybe the owner gets arrested or disappears, the dealer may well be out the 30K he paid for the watches. How many of our dealers could survive with a couple of hits like that? Another thing would be a crack down in customs going out of China. It's easy to tell if there is a watch in the package, and not a "toy" as some dealers claim. If they stop and confiscate even 25-30% of the watches going out, it's going to scare the heck out of buyers, especially if the seller won't or can't afford to absorb the customs risks. I know this subject has come up a lot in the past, mostly related to customs problems in the USA and some of the EU countries, but this is a little different, because they are attacking the source.

MY first rep, has to be at least 20 years old. I beat the hell out of this thing. it is OFFICIALL CERTIFIED so it came from the quality factory... It just sits in a drawer but I have to admit all I have to do is touch it and it begins to run...

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Wearing this gen Blancpain FF for the last time before it goes on sale tomorrow.

I can't comment on which endlinks will fit your case, but you can get proper-width subdial hands from DW. Alternatively, WSO has a set of 7750 Daytona hands, but I've no idea if they're any good If you really want to get all the details right, try finding a needle-like hand for the running seconds.

anybody have anything in the parts drawer? Trying to find aged dial/hands set for mbw case.