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Hopefully this will be helpful to someone. Have just finished adding a gen insert to my 45mm PO. Gen insert on the left, rep is on the right. A pretty huge difference in shade! Thanks to The_Rymeister, whose tutorial I followed to make this possible.

Wearing my 1680 today ( look at that crown position ) Have a nice Friday Cats

Ooer. You finished that one pretty quickly, B. ZK that thing is beautiful. Don't trade it away for just anything.

An elegant work of art.

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Next will be a real "destro"

Ahhhhh, don't listen to Freddy, all his taste is in his mouth. If I were King of the Universe I'd smoke the dial to make the plots match the lume on the two main hands, then I'd find a silver (not white) "Big Lollipop" seconds hand. THEN the planets would align and the angels would sing. ..............for awhile. Then I'd send the dial off to Kirk Rich and have him paint gilt rings around the plots. THEN the planets would align and the angels would sing. ..........for awhile. Then I'd work the hands over to make them look slightly corroded. Espresso and a q-tip work great. THEN the planets would align and the angels would sing. ........for awhile. Hmmmmmmmmm. Wonder if I can find a gen T-17 crystal? Success!! Now the planets are aligned and I hear angels sing. ....................wait. I wonder..................... See how this works? There is no limit to how perfect you can attempt to go. It's a sickness, I tell you. A glorious sickness.

Good point, especially when it's designed to be no more accurate than about 15 seconds per day...

Came as a set, but did not snap in, I used a couple of dots of glue.

I agree it is a beautiful watch. The only teeny criticism is the insert. You have a watch with a pristine dial,hands, crystal and case, yet the insert looks like it's been through the wars. Were me, I would try to find a bezel insert that isn't broken, and then install a tritium pearl. It's just me, but i don't particularly like subs,SD's with no pearl, just makes the watch look incomplete. In my case, I would either snag the broken insert on something and rip it off, or it would get full of dust and trash through the hole and freeze up the bezel.

Whatever I feel like wearing.....Gosh!

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Ahhhhh, things are working out as they are intended. You see, what you really want is a vintage gilt, tropical 1675. The King of GMTs.

True story... Of the Seeing Eye Goose... Pretty cool...

I have mine in a safe. I believe that if you make it very difficult and inconvenient thieves will move on to something easier. First off,I live out in a country subdivision, houses are on 5 to 20 acre plots. one very narrow road in and out. About 20 places where parking a sheriff's car would completely block escape, couple of big mean dogs, plus a little mean yippy dog inside. Safe is in a narrow closet, lag bolted through the floor directly into floor joists. Not enough room to get a pry bar inside the closet to tear the safe up from the floor, plus pretty hard to concentrate with all the dogs barking. Best of all a very nosy and suspicious neibor who will call the Sheriff's office if something doesn't look right. Insurance on the genuine watches and wife's jewelry as well.Insurance is mainly to cover loss or theft when we travel, as well as possible loss in a fire. A safe is a good thing not only for your valuable watches, jewelry, but most are fireproof to some extent, and it's a good place to store documents that you don't want to lose. When we go out of town for business or vacation, I even stick my backup hard drive in the safe. How many of us have all our financial records (Quicken,Quickbooks), word documents, etc on a computer that would be a pile of melted plastic and metal if it went through a fire? So far so good!!

I must say there was something about the white dial with the patina on a T lume.....

I get it! Red (sub), white (all stars), blue (jeans). Happy 4th to you too.

Let's hear it for the red, white and blue! Lovely Red Sub, there's the piece my collection is missing. For now.

Happy Fourth, Double-T. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Interesting discussion I think if all brandings were to be removed, and the gen and rep compared to each other purely 'as watches', then the gen would benefit from higher grade materials in construction, which would make the piece more costly, but, I would question whether that made the watch itself more valuable, simply because the difference in material, are largely laboratory observable only, and at the end of the day, a water resistant SS watch, is still a water resistant SS watch, regardless of the grade SS used... Without any branding, it would be interesting to see how much a consumer would be prepared to pay for the watch with the higher grade materials