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My good friend Denimhead has a mate in the EU that does amazing mods. This modder decided to hang up his hat, so Denim grabbed his last two pieces. Out of the blue, Denim sent one to me and it arrived last night. I can't get over how nice this thing is! It's just over-the-top. So today me and the Big Crown went out for a snowshoe. He seems to like it here in the Arctic pretty well! And now back at the car. Thank you M! I am completely blown away by your generosity. Humbled.

Just got back on this thread today, really pleased Josh put this right for you mate, bloody nightmare with that logo, all's well that end's well @ cougar1 - I agree with you mate, the rush to get this first batch out made me nervous to put an order in, reckon there will be a few dodgy ones doing the rounds in a couple weeks ! On the plus side there have been some beaut looking pieces come up on Qc pics really nice ones, waiting for the rush to subside gives me the shits mind, no patience

Well I'm pleased to say that Joshua has replaced the happy feet PO with a correct one. I received new QC pics today. All is ok this time Phew!

I think your in for a surprise as to how many of these parts won't just "fit". Solid gold TT bracelet $1000, gen 3135 $2000-$2500, rep gold bezel $400. Plus the price of the original watch, $300 or so? Your close to $4000 in a rep. You can pick up a gen for between $5000-$6000 if you look.

Beautiful watch. The trip to the top of the mountain is fraught with many a misstep,rocky trails and dead ends, but man when you get to the top, you sure as heck can't beat the view!! Yours and Hike's are the best 7032's outside of gens I have seen

Thanks, guys! F, yours has a fine pedigree (wish I'd had the cash to take red's Snowflake off his hands), and you managed to waterproof it. I wouldn't even think of walking by a sauna door with my 7032!

UPDATE 02/03/2013 So what's been happening to my 7032 since last summer? Unfortunately, it remained one of my most problematic projects, made worse by a movement swap last autumn. The Valjoux 7734 from siesta181 had been running well, but I discovered late in the day that it actually contained a 30-minute counter, not a 45-minute as advertised. It was sheer stupidity on my part for not detecting it earlier, but siesta was nice enough to agree to a full refund. In hindsight, I should have kept it. The search for a new movement led me to an incredibly shitty Dufonte, which was one of the ugliest watches I've ever strapped to my wrist. Thing is, the movement looked pretty good in the pictures, so I thought I'd be safe. Little did I know how many new headaches this dull brown chronograph would bring. Fast-forward to last month, and I finally decided to send my hapless 7032 off to The Zigmeister himiself. Skip ahead a few weeks, and let me quote a few highlights from his prognosis on the movement: the mainspring was found to be attached to the barrel by someone having drilled a hole in the spring, and then screwing the spring to the side of the barrel, with the screw sticking out significantly from the side of the barrel and jamming into the other coils during hand removal it was noted that the subdial hands were not broached to fit the posts properly as a result, the hands were hammered on, which has resulted in irreparable damage to the 4th wheel post (running seconds) during initial assembly and testing, there was excessive friction in the motion works, the wheels were jamming up, this was the cause of the poor amplitude of the balance wheel extensive troubleshooting finally revealed that the 4th wheel upper pivot was bent and this was the cause of the friction and loss of power only solution is either a new 4th wheel, or replacement of the pivot with a new manufactured one Yikes! But would you believe that I got an "Everything fixed!" email within a week? The guy is good, and so far the watch -timekeeping and chrono functions- has been running excellently. I will miss him terribly. Aside from the movement, this 7032 also underwent a few cosmetic changes last October, courtesy of fellow Canuck and all-around good guy, janeto72. The last few months have been so busy, that I never got the chance to note them back then. The first thing JT did was airbrush my chrono sweep (which was looking tatty in the earlier photos), and attach the subdial hands that a bunch of us have been sweating over. Looking good! Next, he eliminated the pinched mid-edge found on the left side of DW's mid-cases. It honestly never bothered me, but JT was adamant that it had to go. Here's a shot of that edge on an unmolested DW case (top) and my modded 7032 (bottom: The other part that JT modded was the outer tips of the crown guards. I had asked jmb to leave them flat, but JT correctly observed that there should be a slight convexity to them. So he went to work on subtly curving them: You can see the softer look of the CGs by comparing with the shots on the first page. As a bonus, JT also plucked the gob of solder off my 700 crown. Lastly, JT took a crack at deepening the engravings on the caseback. It was a fine enhancement of justasgood's work: I just checked to see that my first post on my first 7032 build was all the way back in October 2010. Wow! Sometimes these things take time. The 7032 has always been one of my most admired watches. It's definitely a looker. Maybe now I can also call it one of my most dependable. Big thanks to janeto72, The Zigmeister, and all the behind-the-scenes guys who have been sourcing and negotiating for 7032 parts.

All i know is that Ziggy retiring will leave a mighty big hole on RWG, it is nothing to do with his repair work but more the fact that no one has done more to educate us about our watches than Rob. Ken

I've got my QC pics today as well and it looks like a cracker. Damn post taking too long. In answer to the shipping question, it was $45.