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I do apologies, I seem to be on a streak of buying a few micro brand gens - letting down the rep side!! A nice non-blue Deep Blue came in today, suitably bright to brighten up a damp day.

So good to see you Ben! Two goodies arrived today, the IWC Topgun from Toro (many thanks Toro) and my Omega 1912 Big Pilot, now, which one shall I wear tonight? Best regards AJ

Same 6265

yep we can spot a tc easily.but normal people cannot.same with most reps really,the general public will assume is fake even if it was gen lol

A couple of years ago I built a 16660 using jackjo's ssd as the base and it was my favorite. LINK Then I had some sort of major malfunction and sold it. Please don't ask me why... Some time passed and I just couldn't get over the loss. I sent an email to the person who bought it off the person I sold it to. To my surprise he agreed to sell her back to me! I was so happy. I ordered a new BpSD after reading so many good things about it with plans to swap the case set if it were indeed that good. The main thing I liked was the crystal, which has no lec. I also ordered TC's 93160A to replace the (from what I'd been reading) poor Bp bracelet. Then I decided to go NOS vintage look. This decision came from the purchase of a NOS 16660 insert. The gen insert I had was pretty beat up, cracked pearl and all. At the time I loved this look. But as I age so do my taste buds and my taste in watches. I loved the new insert I picked up. The tritium pearl was a warm patina yet it had never been mounted and was sitting in its packaging begging to be installed. I actually didn't mind that it cost more than the BpSD! The triple 6 arrived and shortly after the BpSD came too. I immediately saw that the Bp case set was superior so I sent both watches over to my main man Pbdad. Today it came back and I am one happy mofackle. Enjoy the few quick iphone pics. outside today is cloudy with a chance of 666.. indoors Specs: BpSD case set TC 93160A bracelet Natalie's Passion (NDT) 16660 matte dial Gen insert Gen crown/tube Pbdad's work: Drill lug holes Re-lume dial/hands (done during the first build) Install insert (Said it snapped right in without shaving) Install tube

The bracelet looks legit. Kronopassion is a legit seller. If he was trying to rip somebody off, he wouldn't be also trying to sell over 50 watches worth $3000 to $78000.

Made it to mid-week still wearing my '41

I'm not from those days but welcome back!

Sounds like hard work but at least it seems to make fun So good luck with it and hope you can afford a new rep soon

Even better, it would be handy to put your location in the topic as well. ie: "Rolex Noob Explorer 2, Swiss ETA 2836-2, CONUS"

Ali Love - Emperor... My work is very electronic music based these days

Zero customs duty, had to pay a 25.00 USD processing charge to OCS. I believe that is for the overnight FedEx delivery to my home. I suppose OCS delivers in the big cities where they have offices, but they have to hand off to another service for final delivery.

DSN maybe? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Isn't it usually overcast by you! Light and bright today.

Hell ya! What a nice pic Sputim

Fraggle, that's a valid point. I believe we often do things that make them look like a rep!! no box, just bubble wrap and a large Envelope, hand written labels, declarations for 25.00 USD -50.00 USD. Those all scream counterfeit. What we have to realize is the people who work for customs are looking at hundreds if not thousands of packages a day. After some experience, I believe they get pretty good at spotting suspicious packages. If you open 2 Yellow tape wrapped packages and find watches inside that are obviously not genuine Rolex Submariners (Who in the world would ever ship any genuine Rolex that way), it doesn't take long for you to see the pattern, and from then on that agent is going to open every yellow, tape wrapped package from China that comes down the conveyor belt. The only thing that will get past is if he's too busy to stop something or he's already opening one and 10 more slip by. I Also believe that a lot depends on the POE where your package arrives. I know that a few years back, LAX was not a good bet for rep watches. I suppose they got lots and lots of packages from China and they probably figured out the tendencies and that helped them in stopping packages. What I can't understand is why in the world the dealers as well as other shippers can't put the watch inside a "Watch box' as you said, bubble wrap it and then fill a larger cardboard box with packing peanuts, put a nice printed label on it. Declare it as "timepiece" value 200.00 USD and send it on. I would bet that their would be a lot less problems. I got 13 emails from the shipping company yesterday, back and forth as to what they needed from me, etc. What they told me was the customs folks were not claiming it was a rep, their only problem was it was under declared. the shipper valued it at 50.00 USD. When it went through FED Ex customs clearing, I'm sure they are used to seeing watches declared for much more, and they got suspicious. Too cheap to be shipping by courier !! I firmly believe that had the shipper declared it for 200-300 USD, it would have sailed through with no problems. Had he shipped it registered mail, it might have gotten through with a 50.00 USD declaration, as the customs agents that handle regular mail are used to seeing low value items come across, so no alarms. Just got great news!!! Email from the shipping company, customs released the hold on the package,. coming FedEx overnight will get it tomorrow. So in this case hopefully a good outcome, unless I get a customs duty bill from FedEx for customs on a 20K watch!!! Probably not as I believe the shipping agent would have told me and given me the option of refusing delivery. I'll post updates.

Still wearing my '41

Many of them yes, specially with salted sea water

I would NOT recommend using a carbon-cased watch for diving. The reason they discontinued the gen FC Diver is because they had tremendous difficulty maintaining water-resistance consistency, and when you take into account the fact that the rep cases/gaskets are nowhere near as well made as the gens, you're just asking for problems.

if this is true, then all the underside, the inner side and especially the rear edge of the buckle should be polished, but they are not. Or are they?

Jura provide Swiss quality and personally I like this coffee machine a lot! Good choice markiemark I am using a Nespresso machine which is on the more expensive side so only 1 coffee a day but for riding the cheap train I have a Bialetti to make old-school coffee and it has an amazing taste! Also very recommendable for camping trips since you only need a hot source, some water and coffee obviously

It has come to the teams attention that the above replica seller is demanding members post reviews on this and the other replica forums in return for the favour of using PP to purchase. We have discussed this within the team and agree it has all the dirty markings...shill, spam, blackmail..and have therefore decided that all reviews of this site will be removed and any member attempting to post future reviews will be warned once and banned the second time. In future we hope our members will be more forthcoming and tell us directly of serious rule breeches like this. Thank you Ken (on behalf of the Admin team)