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So you've got the QC images or your brand new best replica, like, ever, with that incabloc you always dreamed of, as swiss as cheese, but what about your timegrapher results? What dahell are those? Presets Beat Number Frequency, the vibration of a movement. The number of balance wheel swings per hour or how many times the watch ticks per hour. This is a preset, depends on the watch you order. 14,400 bph = 4 beats per second 18,000 bph = 5 beats per second 21,600 bph = 6 beats per second 28,800 bph = 8 beats per second etc Lift Angle The angle the balance passes through while interacting with the pallet fork. Important to be set correctly in order to calculate the Amplitude. This preset is per caliber specs. Most modern watches have a lift angle of 50 - 52 degrees. Generally lift angles range from 44 to 58 degrees. Some other settings are present, for instance Gen co-axials angle is 30 degrees. Results Rate How fast / slow the movement runs (in seconds per day) great : +/- 5 s/d acceptable : +/- 12 s/d If higher / lower? It is possible to adjust this yourself or ask your dealer to nudge it a bit. Amplitude The measure of the amount of rotation in the swing of the balance wheel, in either direction. Amplitude is higher when a watch is lying flat and usually falls when the watch is in a vertical position, due to increased friction. Amplitude can also fall as the watch winds down and the mainspring delivers less power. Amplitude is a good indicator of the movements health and if is too high or too low, or that changes too much in different positions, can indicate a problem with the movement. great : 270-310 acceptable : 250-270 If higher / lower? Ask for a different watch or have your watch serviced Beat Error The amount of time by which the duration of swing differs from one side to the other in the oscillation of a balance wheel. Generally speaking to get a beat error of zero, the roller jewel in the pallet fork must be perfectly centered. great : 0.0-0.5 ms acceptable : 0.6-1 ms If higher? Ask for a different watch or have your watch serviced. * Please note that if you are reading your QC from the dealer, you will generally receive only the results of the watch lying flat. All the above recommended measurements are from that position. The measurements in other positions may vary

I joined a car forum a while back that you weren't even allowed to make a single post, or PM anyone other than an admin or moderator until you were there for one week. That way, it roots out the scammers making sure you are there to actually read some of the posts and that you are truly interested in being a member there. IF you didn't login during that week probation more than a couple of times, your membership would be revoked. There are some excellent suggestions going on here! Keep 'em coming!

Nice to have you back Micky. Welcome back to the madness. Mike

Welcome back. Always nice to see some old timers.... Noob!

Sorry guys forgot people can't see pics, should be up on trustys also. I put them on imgur. http://imgur.com/a/yK7DY

First of all, a big thanks to Watcher for the smooth transaction. He is a great member to deal with. The Review When I first became interested in timepieces, the Breitling Navitimer was very much my favourite watch, as well as being my first replica acquisition. It has a large following and it is the fundamental basis of Breitling. It is the watch that most traditional Breitling fans associate with the brand. Over the years the brand has really grown in popularity, which is really good to see as a big Breiling fan myself. One such series that has particularly grown in popularity is the Aeromarine series. The latest designing trend with the Aeromarine series is to add the split numbers on the dial and to add 5minute number markers onto the bezel. This has really helped to update their appearance and modernise them nicely without losing too much of their heritage. History The Breitling Aeromarine series was designed to satisfy the purchaser that requires a super sturdy watch with impeccable reliability. It has become a very popular sports watch among customers who demand a watch to function on land, in water and in the air

as good as they look they are not even in the ball park of the gen

Sage advice from a knowing member, do your research! Trusted dealers: read, visit their webpages, look at their feedback, then make a choice. i will give you some advice that you will probably come across in posts around the forum. When you purchase a watch, keep in mind, Your age, your salary, your position. If you are a junior member of a firm, just starting out, I would definitely stay away from watches that you obviously can't afford. From the sound of your post, you are going to be trying to pass your watch of as genuine.also keep in mind that some of those"high profile" clients may very well be knowledgable about watches. It's going to blow your credibility right out the water if one of your clients notices your watch, recognizes that it's a copy of a 100K watch. He may not be sure it's a a copy, but he's sure you can't afford a 100k watch!! Will he believe anything else you say if he knows you are wearing a Fake watch? How do you explain it if he asks probing questions about your watch?If you can pull it off, are of the age and in a position to afford expensive watches, they other guy will never doubt that your watch is real, even if it's not! It's better to wear a low key watch in the price range that you could afford if it were a genuine. A nice Rolex Datejust, Simple Panerai, dress watches from lots of sellers, you canpull those off. A Breguet Tourbillion, probably not.

I have been on quite a few forums where you don't have access (to sell) until you get the requisite number of posts. Another possibility, is to use a similar setup like the Vintage Rolex Market. The Vintage Rolex Forum requires you to have a number of contributory posts before you are considered a VRF Member. Until you are a member, your sales posts are moderated, and they do not go up until they are passed by one of the mods. If anything is dodgy, or incomplete, like a return policy, the post isn't allowed until it's fixed.If not they just nuke it!! Not sure how this would work, but it is very useful. maybe not as a requirement, but "strongly suggested" If you need more communication, PM or email the seller and ask for his phone number, or his skype handle. Cal him up and talk about the watch.shipping, payment,return policy, expectations of each other etc. I'm pretty old school, i would rather talk to someone about something rather than sit at my computer and hammer out email after email. Lots of timexs over the phone, folks are a little more "Real" and sometimes a little easier to read.I prettuy much will not buy a higher end watch from a unknown seller without talking about the deal.

Maven not worried about thoughtful guys like you and I agree communication is key. I have dealt with some long time guys here short and to the point , dismissive. OK, busy well ain't we all. You want to be a member take minute or two and talk , better outcomes all around!

The only advise I could offer is a middlemen required service for people without sales reps. When I first joined I made sure I read the rules learned some things and did my first purchase very slowly. I told myself I wouldn't do the deal with anyone under 5 positive and although I passed on some I stuck to it and had ample communication from the get go. The real issue lies in when and if I do a sale. Although I have 12 years off 100% on eBay there's no set equation to carry that over. With that said I'm comfortable in my ability to communicate with others and am willing to do whatever I can that is reasonable to make people comfortable. So outside a middlemen service offered simply by 1/2 outstanding vets you just have to be smart do your research and realize you have a lot of options to minimize the risk. If there new don't WU don't PayPal gift, use ur credit card through PayPal to ensure two lines of defense don't buy from someone who rubs you the wrong way or simply lacks what you could consider educated . Last but not least remember that what goes around comes around, typically much worse.

This has been pretty aggravating for me as well. I like the idea of folks having to pay to play. That's certainly not going to keep all the scammers out, because if someone wants to drop in here and fleece a few members to the tune of a thousand dollars or so, then he is going to figure buying a membership is sort of the cost of doing business. It will slow down some of the noobs who don't read, refuse to follow directions and generally bumble around creating confusion and friction. making the sales section paying also doesn't immunize us from the occasional old member who "Goes rogue' on us.It's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again. In fact those are the folks I worry the most about, because they have already established a pretty good reputation, and use that to take advantage of other members.All it takes with the new guy is to use a little common sense. Like Mike said, do a lot of communicating. I wouldn't hesitate to ask him if he has any references on other forums. lots of guys come here from genuine forums, and a good reference on TZ or WUS is as good to me as one here. Again, if the deal looks to good to be true,you're probably going to regret it!! Use your gut feelings about deals, and as I have said before, unless the watch you are buying is super rare, or one of a kind, you can afford to walk away from a deal because another one will come along. If it's super rare or one of a kind, and a noob with 2 posts is selling it, he better have some darn good creds from one of the other forums, or it's definitely NO SALE for me. I believe that as others have said, it would be pretty easy to make a post threshhold of say 10 posts to look, 50 posts to buy and 100 posts to sell, at least until the payment problems are solved. Also having some sort of designation like 2012 VIP or 2012 Platinum added to guys who have recently had their paid membership expire would go a long way toward letting people who recently joined, see at a glance who has been around and is a paying member.

You're lucky

Just picked up one of these this week can't wait to get it that dial is awesome !

This is just comfortable and makes me feel good. Sounds like my Mrs !!!

Exactly....

Agree... right at home with jeans and an old sweatshirt...

Yeah chronomat evolution was my choice at 42mm its a good fit for my 6.5 inch wrist. Got mine on the forums from an excellent member. Heres a picture he took of the beauty

Great review Angus!