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Here are some good pics of the gen and the H which I have used from another kind souls thread on ZG forum..which I hope he doesnt mind REP Gen Gen Rep Gen on top Gen on top Gen on top Gen on top Gen Rep Gen Rep Gen Rep Gen Rep Rep on Right Rep on top [/uR L][url=http://s963.photobucket.com/user/petemch/media/ThreeSeven/Movement_zps5840b9bd.jpg.html]

BP Subbie for me

Buy only from the trusted dealers at this website

IG44, DW, MQ etc = Hell-of-a-way to run a business imho. Say what you want to about Yukiwatch but they run a good business.

pureti.me is a trusted dealer and he has a lot of watches that are super reps and extremely nice right out of the box! iparadisiac and perfectwatches belong together and apart from their nice internet appearance they sell crappy watches for way too much money! Unfortunately many of us here on the board, including myself, did the mistake and bought our first reps from dealers like them. They deliver you something but you pay way too much and quality is bad and not to compare with anything the trusted dealers sell! Please don't do the same mistake and read a little about different watches. As soon as you know which one you like choose a trusted dealer and you are ready to go! cheers

Looks great! I got mine from Andrew along with a Top Gun yesterday. I'll post some pics in a new thread later ! It's an awesome piece. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Banned. Thank you gentlemen, for being gentlemen about this.

Ebay is and has been full of rep Blancpain's for years. I believe that a lot of them in the past have come out of Vietnam, same place as the rep Omega Seamaster 300's. Some of them are really good, almost good enough to fool folks, but they all have tells, like they were using the same serial number and/or issue number. Another good way to tell is the condition of the watch. Most of the vintage Blancpain's were issued watches, and even those that weren't were sold in Dive shops, and they were all used as tool watches. Remember back then, Blancpain was a tool watch, they didn't become luxury "desk divers" until much later Most of them, especially the military issued watches are beat to crap, of course they can be, and many have been restored, but they won't have that "fresh from the factory" look like the one above. Many look like these two old Doxas that were French Navy issued. I got these restored, but they certainly didn't look "like New" when complete.

I love the knowledge that's here from you guys! Amazing!

Contact Mary and Rochest at watchinternational. They are a small mom and pop dealer. They are happy, normally, to search for parts for people who are not their original customers. I have bought parts for Cartier from them in the past.

Here is something worth looking http://www.watchwallpapers.com/hte.htm

Hi, You are just referring to different types of bracelets. You may purchase another and fit it to Your GMT if you want (as long as it´s the same size). Or You can get A NATO - this is from Paul Hewitt, costs just 10 euros. no daylight pic, but You get the idea

Sure! Couple of tells. Mainly though, noob factory doesn't yet make that strap. So unless you bought that and put it on yourself, it is BP. Other tells are the date font isn't raised like on noob version. Also the bezel line is a bit thinner on BP as oppose to noob. BP is better in some areas and noob is better in others. Again though I really love this watch!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks great! Is that the BP or noob? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Congrats very nice indeed ! is that the solid backcase version i would like a 42mm size !

i thought id post a comparison of two popular aftermarket hand choices... why? because i could while these pictures provide some insight its still far from seeing them in 3-D space for a more accurate comparison im comparing a set of Clarks : Gen : Yuki hands the clarks and yukis are for ETA and are a popular choice for replacement aftermarket hands, these gen hands here are tritium and for a 5513 -1520 calibre. im keeping them under glass since the lume appears brittle and i dont want it potentially crumbling today. that being said; the sizes in the picture are slightly larger than if they were on an equal plane with the gen hands, the aftermarket hands are maybe sitting 0.5mm above the gen hands in 3D space the clarks hour hand is almost perfect except for the little notch between the cannon ring and the rectangle bridge lume. Clarks is the only aftermarket hour hand able to get the size of the round merceds part correct with gen. now if only they fixed that metal notch. Yukis: the mercedes part is too small a circle and the pointer part of it is too long. Winner: it s a toss up between which of these two hands to use. Clarks: while i like the correct width of the minute hand on the clarks, the extra length towards the bottom of the hand really hurts its chances of me using it. it breaks from traditional shape of a rolex minute hand IMO. Yuki's minute hand has the most correct shape of the two, but the width of the minute hand is slightly more narrow than the gen. Winner: i would go with yukis hand in this situation, while it is more narrow thats harder to spot in a set with narrow hands compared with Clarks Clarks second hand is *almost* perfect, its only flaw is that it is ~1mm too long, very simple solution, snip it with scissors. DONE, its prefect. Yukis second hand is not only too long, but its luminous dot on the end is not where it should be at all, even installed on a watch not being next to a gen second hand it always looked odd to me. and now you can see why. Winner: Clarks with a very simple mod, its perfect. CONCLUSION: so there you have it, you might have to buy a couple sets of aftermarket hands and combine them to make a halfway decent set of hands depending what rep hands you have lying around and how they measure up. Clarks can easily win this with a couple of changes. So Gary if youre listening, make two changes and youve got the best set of aftermarket hands out there What set would i use? I Would probably do a combination of the Yuki hour hand and minute hand with a Clarks modded second hand. if you use a clarks hour hand and pair it with a yuki minute it might look disporportionate because of the variance in width between the two (clarks being gen width, yukis not) but yukis second hand is definetly the weakest point of the set and should not be used, clarks to the rescue. *If anyone else has a pair of hands worth sharing let me know, ive tried a few others like WSO, and watchbandman, they are more or less the same as Yukis with the incorrect width and pointy 'arrow', but i do look forward to explanding this article with other hands worth comparing.