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LEST WE FORGET. Ken

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Edge’s Guide to Replica Forum’s Part I An Introduction to RWG and Other Replica Forums and A Dealer Member Trade Outline. This is a guide to using this and many of the other forums. My aim in writing this is to better educate members as to the effectiveness of this forum is saving $$$ for hundreds and hundreds of members. Most people here will have at one time seen or fallen victim of Idealwatches or suchlike so do not fear reprisal for mentioning the fact that you almost did/did business with them, these sites are very well designed and would fool many people. The members here and on the other forums, have had the benefit of being educated by other people as to how much to pay and what to look for. I am not by any manner or means an expert in this field, I have a lot to learn, and I learn new information every time I log on. The key is to read as much as you can before posting questions, if someone has posted it before in an appropriately named thread it should be easy enough to find, and there is masses of information contained within these here walls. First things first: I strongly advise ANY of you to read this, it is a book called The Replica Watch Report and it is regularly updated and is an excellent informational tool. Replica Watch Report Let us not get too far ahead of ourselves and say that the forums that have been set up for us are the ONLY places that you will ever need to go to find out about replica watches. There are many trusted dealers, whom have been tried and tested by many people before you. All members are actively encouraged to post a review after a transaction, whether it be positive or negative. If a dealer is not reffered to positively within these forums and has not been verified or has not become a dealer at the forums, please do not bother trying to buy from them. For the sake of the $50 you might save it’s worth the peace of mind that our dealers have been here and done that, and their service is absolutely excellent. I am going to attempt to stay away from the personal overtones that are sometimes attributed to these kind of threads/posts. I do not intend to personally vouch for ANY dealers and I am ultimately not responsible for any experiences you have. I am merely going to outline the basics of the forum to try and simplify things for new members and existing members alike. Dealers: I will not bother mentioning them each by name as they vary from forum to forum and can each be found in the respective Dealer Section. RWG Dealer Section: Watch Dealers – http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=19 Accessory Dealers – http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=68 The dealers in these sections have been tried by MANY members before you and have been evaluated based upon performance by members and their experiences posted in the dealer review section. Dealer Review Section – http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=11 Please take some time to read this section to make yourself aware of any pros and cons of working with ANY dealer. Also please note that Dealers are there to help you out, they happily answer to PM’s and Email’s. Please be sure to check whether the dealer in question accepts the form of communication that you choose, some wont do PM’s and some prefer them. Please take time to familiarise yourself with a dealer’s guidelines as to what happens should a package be damaged/lost. ALWAYS try and sort any problems with a dealer in private until satisfactory completion, in many cases resolution is promptly found, however there are occasions where a resolution cannot be found and advice must be saught from the members and it as at this time and this time ONLY that you announce any problems to the board for advice. Then after a satisfactory resolution is found, or an agreement is reached, please feel free to write a FULL and Comprehensive review of your dealings, whether that be positive or negative, censorship of reviews only leads to ill informed members. Member Trade: There is a member trade section of the board, which is relatively self explanatory. Member’s Trade Section – http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=18 Where you can trade Watches, Straps and Bracelets, Tolls and Parts and Other Item’s. Please take time to get references from the member you intend to deal with. Has he/she traded anything before? How did it go? And suchlike. This is a very important part of the forums, and we pride ourselves on trying to help each other out, but please be careful, remember the old adage “If it looks too good to be true, it is!!” We have many trusted members and do many trades on a daily basis, so it should be relatively easy to find a good deal with a member who will come through for you. Please guys remember that a member is not responsible for variables outwith their control. If an item is damaged in transit or, God forbid, lost, then the member will no doubt try to help in any way that they can but remember these people aren’t high street vendors, they are themselves small time collectors like you, and cannot afford to refund you in full if they have done the best they can to make sure there are no problems. REMEMBER, there is an inherent risk involved in all transactions conducted with members/dealers as this is not a mainstream hobby. Many good deals are to be had from buying from members, and usually some form of trade will be acceptable where you each send some goods and cash as appropriate. These trades are usually mutually beneficial. Anyway enough about buying and selling……. Watch Repair and Upgrade: On the forums we have a few resident watch repair and upgrade guys, they are superb at what they do. Each has their own specific genre and niche. They can be found by reading in the Knowledge Base Section, and also a couple have their own areas. Knowledge Base – http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=55 Also contained within the Knowledge Base section are MANY FANTASTIC knowledgeable posts from a lot of different members, all of which are worth a good read. Watch Repair and Upgrade Section – http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=7 Where The Zigmeister Zone and RBJ’s Corner can be found, as well as many Watch Repair and Upgrade Posts from our membership. Feel free to read, read and read some more in thee sections, should you have any questions that have not to the best of your knowledge been covered then go ahead and ask, both The Zigmeister and RBJ have Q&A sections in their area’s, and you can also post a new thread to ask the opinion of the members, many of whom readily opine lol. Other Issues: Let’s get the obvious one out of the way first….. Who has the Best…………? Answer: Guys this is not EVER a good question, simple as that. There are too many variables in which there is too much ambiguity, to give a definitive answer to this much maligned question. Each version of each watch is usually very similar, in many cases the watches come from the same supplier. However different dealer’s do on occasion get different versions of the same watches, and NOONE can say which is BEST. There are different flaws in each and the best is a personal point of view. Something that you find unbarable as a fault might mean NOTHING to another member, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Don’t ask who has the best anything. It is usually responded to with, frivolity and sarcasm, so just read as much as you possibly can about each version and draw your own conclusions. Some members are extremely helpful and will go out of their way to help out some others aren’t as helpful, you will quickly learn who’s who and you will no doubt make a plethora of friends. There are many other sections…. RWG News, Photo Gallery, General Discussion and Off Topic to name but a few, these are all relatively self explanatory and I don’t wanna ruin all your searching fun. Please take your time to read as much as you can, and feel free to add any knowledge that you bring with you to our vaults of information. Some Further Reading: Please do not be disappointed if one of your threads is not listed here, if you feel that anything should be added then please let me know. There is so much info that I couldn’t possibly link all of it. The key is to do related searches and just read read read. Ubiquitous: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=3302&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=4472&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=1216&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=5743&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=1066&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=107&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=109&hl= By-Tor: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=3392&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=426&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=4509&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=927&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=429&hl= Pugwash’s Photo Tutorials: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=825&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=826&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=3994&hl= Pugwash + Edge: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=884&hl= Edge: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=4275&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=4855&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=3715&hl= http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=420&hl= There are many other VERY VERY valueable topics to read from MANY other extremely knowledgeable members, Please take the time to read as many posts in the knowledge base and the watch repair and upgrade sections as you can. If I have left anyone out please feel free to post a link to the topic and I will add it to this. I hope that this guide has been helpful to new members and older members alike as a general outline of the forum set-up and Dealer/Member Trade. Please look forward to Part II in the series in which I will delve slightly further into our Forums. Thanks Edge!

The spacing between "Oyster Perpetual Date" is too wide. That's one thing I know for sure. I have been thinking about getting this GMT version so I am in the process of reading as much as I can on it. I also think the crown guard is a bit off. If you look at a side shot of the gen vs the rep you can see that the top edge of the CG curves over the crown more than the gen. I am also worried about the bezel. It is all blue and the black is painted over it. if you happen to scratch the black the blue will more than likely show through.

It's beautiful over there Asci! Wearing the Swiss Legend Challenger for today:

Just one....... it´s no fun. Just two would be a 16610 black sub and the panerai 212 flyback, 1950´s case; and just one DSSD for the beach, just one PAM 203 for dining with Lara Croft, just one PAM 193 for off-road-driving, just one AP V5 for diving, just one cheapo digital quartz Timex rep for Africa, a L&S Datograph for the Opera, a Daytona for the racing track (and a TAG Chrono backup), an IWC Ingenieur or Portuguese for the business meeting and just one Coke GMT for holidays on the Maledives ....................a Steelfish just for fun and ...... You all see where this is getting: You need just ONE for every occasion:) I´m happy again - with just ONE:)

Never liked it there much, the mods are like cowboys with itchy trigger fingers

Not to threadjack but can anyone enlighten a noob on the difference between a v6 and v6.5 in the big bang? Been trying to find a link w no luck

how strange it turned into a gilt dial....I think it turned out great...in the case, I bet that bubble stuff doesn't even look noticable. great work....the magic gilt oven..cheaper than gold.