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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

Once upon a time, earlier this year, I fell victim to the alluring concept of the replica watch. By simply typing the words "replica watch" on google, many sites came up, but none of the reputable ones you will find in this forum. Instead, you will be plagued by the biggest ripoff scam websites on the internet. I have discovered the largest watch ripoff umbrella on the internet. The group of internet based companies have the same swiss upgrade gimmick and are based primarily out of New York. If you buy from one of the following sites, you WILL be ripped off!! I almost fell victim to one of these rip off sites and thank god I found a reputable rep forum that saved me. Here is what I know: - The dealer will convince you to do C.O.D or Wire Transfer. - If you are out of the USA, they will say that due to security and fraud that credit card orders will not be accepted. They will convince you to do a money wire since that is the next safest method since you will have their business bank account information. Little do you know that the info provided is not actually a bank account!! It is a routing number where your funds are redirected several times until it ends up in a pre-paid debit/credit card company. The money enters the fraudster's prepaid debit/credit card where the funds are withdrawn immediately. These pre-paid accounts are set up all over the United States and are extremely hard to track. There are many aliases and phone numbers that these scammers use. They don't really have a base of operations and work off pre-paid cell phone numbers. They have set up a fake rep review site called http://www.fakereviews.com and http://www.replicainspector.com. The pictures used on these sites are of actual gen watches!! Not the watch(es) you may or may not receive. How do I know so much? I almost fell victim and actually wired funds to bluefakes. Luckily I have very powerful friends in the banking industry. With thorough investigation and persistance, I tracked to where the funds ended up. I not only got my money back, but ended up freezing several of their accounts and money returned back to other victims. Here is the list of the companies: GLOBAL REPLICA Additional Business Names: A Fine Luxury Time AFineLuxuryTime.com Allfakes Betterswiss BlueFakes Fullswiss Go Replicas Italian Fakes Jewelers Laststopwatch Limited Watch My Swiss Replica MySwissReplica.com New Replica Newwatch4u Nextswiss Nyswiss OnTimeFakes Precise Knock Offs Ravereplicas Redhotwatch Replicaceo Reproduccion Global Showtimereplicawatches Sizzlefakes SwissFreeze Zenithmotor I am really sorry that it took so long to compile this. I read about a victim on repgeek and got really angry. I really wanted to put the past behind me but something has to be done. I hope I am not too late to try and help others. These are only the companies that I know of under the same group. There potentially can be more. I have put together this information in hope that other people do not fall victim to these petty thugs. Jawo

This is a fishing expedition to see what kind of demand there is from forum members in CONUS for having watch crystals AR coated. I'm in Southern California and there are companies here who do various AR coatings on everything from $1.5 million dollar, one foot square saphire radar lenses for the military to eyeglass lenses for optometrists and in materials ranging from polycarbonate to heat tempered glass. Regrettably he has yet to do any watch crystals. The process has to be done under extreme heat to get the proper hardness and scratch resistance. It is almost always done on both sides of the lens. I'm told there are two basic types and one has a slightly blue tint, the other a slightly green tint when viewed against a white surface. The price would be $40 per crystal with a mimimum run of 4-5 units. They make 3-4 runs a week with a 3 day turn around time not including the time for me to receive and return the crystal at/from my location. Postage would be minimal but the responsibility of the buyer/owner of the crystal. This seems to be a much shorter turn around than other AR services I've seen on the forum. I'm currently trying to get together enough crystals for a test run to evaluate quality and if your willing to participate I will only charge $20 each just for the test run. I can contribute 2 of my own so I only need a few more to make the test run. Please send me a personal message if interested. Mike (rionrtly)

Triple Subs!

I don't have winders, my watches often sit for months until I tag them in for a couple weeks of rotation. sometimes I will just put the watch on and start wearing it, after a coupe of hours I will set the watch and it will just wind itself with daily wear.

Thursday... .

Josh and his partner Andrew (Perfect Clones and Trusty Time) are good dealers. They just sometimes charge more. For a replica "that cheap" you should think about replacing the strap it comes with .. it's most likely going to be the biggest tell on the piece. The funny part is that a beautiful exotic leather strap is going to cost you as much as the rep watch As for the Asia 21j powered watches like this ... it's really hit or miss. The good news is that the Asia 21j is cheap to replace .. $25 retail?? If you like it, put it on a beautiful strap and replace the movement if it breaks.

When you are buying a 50-80 dollar watch, it's best to not deal with the dealers who overcharge habitually. Send an email to Watch International, first, and ask for their price on this piece. To be more clear, the more popular big dealers sometimes will charge you 100 or more dollars extra over the price of a smaller dealer. I'm not guaranteeing anything but it does not hurt to ask.

+1 on the middle one. Dave...

Trust but verify!

Shock system Deep clean looking engraving on the rotor ETA logo seems good Tactile feedback when winding it may also be a good indicator. An ETA is silky smooth (though even if it not, it might just be a QC thing) My money is on swiss

You're right.. This article made me actually sad and angry at the same time.

Obviously some hack writer who spent and hour on Canal street and then went back and wrote his article. I would bet you a hundred dollars if you put five really good reps and five comparable gens on a table, he couldn't' pick the reps from the gens!!

Hey everyone! The inks/cliches/misc parts arrived last week. After a few slightly successful trials, I'm still attempting to ascertain the correct ratio of ink/thinner/matte powder to use in the printing process. There seems to be a problem with pad pressure, which I hope to have sorted asap. If my manual padprinter setup doesn't yield satisfactory (i.e. crisp) printed results, I will most likely purchase an automated pad printing press. HOPEFULLY it won't come to that, as I've already sunk way too much money into this venture. More updates ahead! - whoop

Some pictures from the 2nd time around making a strap, this time i took some pictures along the way. I decided to do an open stitch that wraps around the top edges this time, just because last time i had done a closed stitch. -- The leather I got off of ebay and it turned out quite nice i think. - I'd like to get some blue leather next. this strap looks alot better than the last IMO, specially since i managed to get the 3 holes for the tang lined up. Enjoy ..