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Haven't started one of these in a while! Let's go with my "57" plus some bonus Cal.321 action:

Well on general principal I find that used rubbers are smelly...

I'll start things off today

Still on the priority list - need to get the right insert!

Love this watch! Very well executed & it's got that "feel". The OEM strap is lovely, too.

On hols in France, could only bring 4 watches with me, and wore the Aerospace on the way over.

All of the above Mike. I graduated HS in 1993. That means that I was too late for the 80's hairspray and sexual promiscuity, and too early for "PINK" and "ABERCROMBIE" written on the back-side of tight sweat-shorts. I blame Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vetter for the "5 layers of flanel" fashion craze I had to endure.

This inspired me to resurrect my 1665 project here's the little brother..

Ken, You are so right! I started off probably more than ten years ago, back on the old TRC. We had a fair number of dealers back then, but there were no QC photos, and not a heck of a lot of correspondence from the dealers. You wanted something, you usually had to email the dealer, ask him if he had a certain watch in stock, if yes, send your money, often times it was WU or nothing, although a few did eventually start taking Paypal. When you got your watch, it was pretty much yours. A few dealers would give you a discount on your next watch, or offer to pay 25 bucks in the form of a refund if your watch was DOA or had problems. In all those early years, I sent one watch back, and that was later in the game when Eurotimez was around. Usually, it was YOD (Yours on Delivery!!!) No returns, no whining, and if you kicked up too much of a fuss, the dealers would suddenly start ignoring your emails.Another thing, We had several dealers back then who had probably the best Rolex watches and maybe a few others, who wouldn't even return your first email unless you were recommended by someone else who was a trusted buyer. The old guys will remember Maria, and George, they could get MBW's, but unless you were in the inner circle, you couldn't buy from them, as they only sold to those they knew. And then there was TTK, another character on the early forums. If he didn't like you, he wouldn't sell you the time of day!! If you posted silly stuff or went against him, you could forget ever getting one of his watches. So to all you newer guys, the good old days are now!!

My mail man Jason has this in gen.that he paid $2800.00 for and I can't wait to show him this, I'm slowly getting him into the rep world and he will be amazed at this. And I can't wait to see your finished product, I know it will be a true work of art. I am personally very impressed with what you are doing, I just wish my old hands aren't so shakey so I could get the enjoyment and self satisfaction of completing a project such as this.

SUPER! SUPER! SUPERDOME!

The Steelfish rep is actually not that great from up close when compared to the gen. Easiest tell would be the trademark blueish Breitling AR and the quality of the bracelet. Looking at your pictures I would say you have a gen.

Hey jmb, nice piece! Wearing this today:

Monday... .

I'm located in the Netherlands, but thanks for sharing! Going to check his account

Trusted means that it is approved to sell in the forum and there is a feedback section which is the voice of the customers. You know what you will receive, not just a random website you found on google with AAA+ replicas. A dealer is a team. There is a lot of work with website developement, qc pictures, emailing, several type of shady payment handling receving money and paying factories, illegal pp accounts, third party credit card payments, watch orders, relationship with factories, package making, aftersales service etc etc The qc picture is mainly for the reason to make sure you receive the watch you really ordered, and not a different one. However if you see something unusual, like scratch on the dial or some kind of misalignement you can ask the dealer to take you some more pictures. This is the benefit of a forum, and a ¨trusted¨ dealer.

contact me direct and I will look after you Ken