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Just past midnight here, but I will probably end my work week wearing the 6241

I was following this thread for a while now. I have bought multiple straps from him all of them genuine. Yes, the communication wasn't the fastest and in some cases delivery took over a month after payment. But always received the merchandise, and always as advertised. Until this thread turned up I wasn't even aware of the connection between the usernames (I have bought the straps via WUS). Just my 2 cents on the matter.

I think in the modern western world which most of us are used to, it is for the prosicution to prove guilt rather than the other way round?

Liquid business lunch with my best friend... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No-cylops 1680 for me today...

Great combo can't you get this one from the H factory in their custom built program Carpe Diem Cats

A Violin with Three Strings... On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches. To see him walk across the stage one step at a time, painfully and slowly, is an awesome sight. He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair. Then he sits down, slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and proceeds to play. By now, the audience is used to this ritual. They sit quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair. They Remain reverently silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs. They wait until he is ready to play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. You Could hear it snap - it went off like gunfire across the room. There was no mistaking what that sound meant. There was no mistaking what he had to do. We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage - to either find another violin or else find another string for this one. But he didn't. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before. Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. You could see him modulating, changing, re-composing the piece in his head. At one point, it sounded like he was de-tuning the strings to get new sounds from them that they had never made before. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. We were all on our feet, screaming and cheering, doing everything we could to show how much we appreciated what he had done. He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quiet us, and then he said - not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone - "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left." What a powerful line that is. It has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life - not just for artists but for all of us. Here is a man who has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, who, all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, finds himself with only three strings; so he makes music with three strings, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more beautiful, more sacred, more memorable, than any that he had ever made before, when he had four strings. So, perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

Only thing a knife on the crystal will show you is that your AR is scratched

Freddy, i love the dial on your 6241! Ending my work week with the 5514

I would never do this and I doubt any of the other oldtimers would either. We can enjoy our frankens, but it's not to our advantage to put these watches in the AD's face. Likewise, I would never try to misrepresent my franken and sell it as a gen.

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In 2010, Breitling produced another revamped watch, as part of their often criticised New Wave campaign. It was called the SuperOcean Abyss. A medium size diver watch intended to replace the entry-level medium sized SuperOcean. It is often thought that the Abyss was the successor to the SuperOcean SteelFish X-Plus, but comparing the two smaller SuperOceans, you can see where the bloodline comes from. The purpose of this review is not to establish whether it looks like a Breitling, but whether it is a good replica or not. For a while, I had been pondering about buying the genuine (on a bracelet) for some time, but due to its mixed reactions I held off. Not long after this 'Best Edition' replica was released in late May/early June 2011, I knew that I wanted one. In fact, I bought two! I decided to go with Puretimewatch.com, as they seemed to have an extended period of newsletters, which I appreciated. As it happens, the order was completely fuss free and easy. Thanks Puretime! Now, I bought Abyss Silver and Abyss Black. Simply because I felt that watches with brightly coloured dials or bezels have very limited wear, rather like the Pumpkin PO/Sub LV. In my gen & rep collections, I tended to just buy them for novelty. Anyway, on with the review.... As with the sales video, when the watch was presented, I immediately felt that this was an item which was finished to a very high standard. No rough edges, casting marks or grainy screwthreads. All of the hallmarks that genuine Swiss watches possess by right. The weight of the watch feels good, as does the smooth but positive 120-click bezel. Extremely gen-like. In the photo below, you can see that the manufacture period is now believeable! Every edge has either been chamfered or radiused and polished, the attention to detail is very impressive. HEV is nicely finished and unobtrusive. Crown features a correctly weighted 'B' logo, not too feint or heavy. Crown tube has external threads, time will tell if this strips easily or not. Caseback is polished to perfection. No sharp edges whatsoever. Feels very comfortable on the wrist. The bezel is inlaid with a hard rubber compound, and then brushed to create the circular grain. It is then fitted to the case. Comparing it with the genuine, they are for all intents & purposes, identical. Pushing your fingernail into the rubber inlay will not dent it. If you scratched it with a harder object, then I'm sure it will be marked. It has 6 tiny screws set into the side of the bezel. The double AR coatings are excellent, true to Breitling: with the blue/purple hue. With the dial, I have tried over and over to find a fault with it, but I can't! Maybe soon someone will do a fancy overlay to prove that something is 1000th/inch off scale. The only tiny flaw that i could see was that the graduations on the rehaut are a hairs breadth lower than the gen, which of course is centralised. This is not seen so easily on the black rehaut, but it does exist on all of the reps that I've seen so far. In direct light, the dial itself has a metallic sunburst effect on it, as per the gen. Thankfully, not a flat black paint, in the same way they repped the black Navitimers. The applied indices are metallic but sandblasted matte. It looks like they are laser cut, not cast, as the edges are very clear and defined. The wings logo is nice and sharp. Not lumpy and rough like on some reps. Dial printing is sharp too, perhaps maybe not quite as bold as the gen, but i'll let you decide on that. Staying with the dial, I'll report on the lume. On the rehaut and hands, it is very good for rep lume. It looks almost like a modded watch. What really lets it down is that the lume applied to the cardinal markers is about half as bright! Seems like they were made in separate 'factories'. If there's a mod needed, then this is it! Now to the rubber strap. It is quite obvious that the Makers would have bought the genuine Abyss with rubber strap, possibly because the bracelet was not yet available. The fitment, detail and flexibility of the strap is awesome, but what needs improving is the actual compound. It is not as dust repelling as it should be. You may have noticed that in some of the pics above, there is still some dust on the strap. It isn't as dust repellent as the rep 22mm UPO strap or the rep Ocean Racer, which I think are as good as gen. However, the buckle is a true work of art! The wings logo has been set into the buckle, but still offering a slight relief to it, as per the new generation of Breitling clasps and buckles. Underneath, it has been loving brushed to perfection. All edges are soft and smooth. Top marks for this one! So, the burning question is - How does it wear? Simple answer: Easy and very well! In a nutshell, if you like the 42mm Planet Ocean or SMP, then this 42mm case will be ideal. If you prefer 44mm and above, then this is not the watch for you. My slim wrist is 6.75", I can and do wear PAMs & Skylands, but that is realistically where I stop. To summise....The lume on the cardinals is the only real letdown. For the rest of it, this is one impeccably made replica watch. Perhaps it was made by the SOH factory? The details are 99% there. The feel and satisfaction of having a very good replication is there. I don't get this Out-of-the-box-near-perfection feeling with many other reps. If you like the styling, then I would highly recommend that you get one. EDIT (19th June 2011) I opened up the casebacks on both watches to check the movement. They are both fitted with the asian clone ETA 2824-2. Some nice detailing going on in here too: perlage and cotes d'geneve. The signed rotor finishes it off. Referring back to the rubber strap and it's dust repellency (or lack of): after 36 hours of use, and with a light smear of residual silicon grease (was greasing the gaskets), it turns out that the rubber is not so bad after all! It doesn't attract the dust so much now. Maybe it just needed wearing in. Still not as good compound as the UPO strap, but better than I first believed. It also has a distinct coconut/vanilla aroma to it.