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Still wearing the Hamilton today.

Hi Guys, Thanks to your suggestions I have now corrected the problem with the improper dial depth in relation to the slide rule ring. The dial is now just a hair short of actually touching the slide rule ring. Any closer and it could damage the dial. The first 3 pictures are after correction and the rest are before pictures. Let me know what you think. Now if I could just find that gen date wheel. ................................................................................................................................................................................. Hi Guys, here are the results of my latest Franken project. It has a gen dial, stem, crown and a gen Swiss ETA 7750 engine and the rest of the watch is rep. I also have a standard rep Navitimer Fighters SS watch with a rep blue dial and it is amazing the difference in color between the rep dial and the gen dial. The rep dial is darker and a lot more subtle. The gen dial just pops, especially in the TT version with gold printing. This watch is made up of parts from 5 different watches with an eye toward picking the best from each one. The case is from an older rep and has the larger bevel on the top outer edges of the lugs, which is far more Gen like. The gold bezel and TT bracelet actually came from a very old quartz rep and the clasp. The bezel construction was the same on the quartz watch but the keeper ring had to be cut down to make room for the thickness of the crystal. The Bracelet is from the quartz watch also but the clasp and back cover are from a recent rep with deeper, more correct engraving. When I first discovered the concept of "Frankens", after joining this forum, I kind of thought it was silly. Now I think I have gotten the bug as this is my second Navitimer franken. The first was an SS Fighters model with a gen Breitling B13 movement, gen stem and crown and gen 18mm deployant which I presented earlier in this section. While I have always liked my Navis more on a strap, I believe the TT one actually belongs on the TT bracelet. Eventually I would like to source a gen TT bracelet for this one. This has now officially become one of my favorite reps, along side of that one.

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I think my colleagues may have thought you were pranking them. For what it's worth, this watch sells for around $1,000 (I looked it up). Replica watches (clones) sell for anything between $100 and $900. Modded or franken (with genuine parts) watches can go for up to $5,000. As a result you are very unlikely to find a replica/clone of a watch of this sort of value. In addition, this site is a huge repository of information and the search function is your friend. It will also take you to trusted dealers where you can peruse the watches available. It is up to you to make some efforts in this area because you are simply asking someone else to do your research - which might be considered a bit unreasonable. Asking for advice after you have made some effort is welcomed, someone is always willing to help. You're welcome!

I've got to time stuff:

Knew this day would come... Today i decided to disassemble one of my watches, just for the fun of it Bought Offshore's tool-kit last month, highly recommended! Inspecting the Chinese movement i noticed that it had a logo (right where you would expect a ETA logo on a ETA movement) , I thought all the low end movements were no-name products. Does anyone recognize the logo? I did my best to recreate it. (Below) The dissection: The tweezers (one shown in the picture) are superb, swiss made. Never thought i would compliment the quality of a tweezer, but these are awesome. Also a bit surprised i noticed that the crown is indeed a triplock construction, cheap rep. The movement logo (as i remind it): Any ideas? /Furu And yes, the watch is reassembled and fully functional

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IWC BP today,

Poor man`s GMT

Man, this is a blast from the past. Welcome back guys, glad to have you. look at the join dates so far, Vly, you're the junior guy, only 6 years, 7 months and 28 days!! But hey, you got us all beat on post count!!

44mm with 24mm lugs...which is nice to have a dressy watch with a wider strap... Here's another with a nice dial...

Yep he's just on the other side of the mountain from me. Of course the mountain is a long way off ... that's about 5 hours from my house if you're in a hurry.

Snow day...

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Frankie fro today (Rolex 168000) says Hi

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