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Sunny AZ today. Sent from my droptop using telepathy.

Here is my latest 1016 built for a fellow member. Not final as it is lacking its caseback and the clasp, but aside from that.... Well: you guys can tell!

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I cleared most of my "daft fake watches" last year... I'm now back up to three with another in transit. I've realised the rep game is like crack and I'm sure most of us would agree! Ooops!

Some fine watches so far. I'll add my SMP:

I looked and looked at this one but still clearing some very very nice piece mate great pick up

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Gen Speedy for today

Tom, I don't think there is any control over where a package lands. I believe and I may be wrong that packages that are ready to ship are put on the first available flight, so it's a luck of the draw as to where your package lands. having said that, I do believe that there is some degree of regionalization involved. I would expect that if you live on the west coast, you wouldn't likely have packages clearing through Chicago or New York, if they are coming from China. If they are coming from and EU country, they might well clear in NY, Atlanta, Chicago, etc. as there are probably more flights from Europe coming into JFK than LAX. So it's possible that both your geographic location as well as where the package originates plays a part. I live in the south, and I have had packages clear customs in Anchorage AK (Haven't seen any clearing there in a long time),LAX and SF. Interestingly, I very recently had two packages sent from Singapore, both of them cleared customs in Miami. First time I have ever had packages go through there inbound. My wife sends a fair number of packages to Europe and almost every one of hers go through the Miami ISC. I doubt that this convoluted discourse answered your question, but it is only to illustrate that we really don't have any control, and where you live does have a part in where your package ends up entering the USA. As hiker said above, he had watches seized in Chicago, the dealer resent them to a different address on the west coast, they cleared through LAX with no problems. I believe that if you are getting watches from a TD, there are a couple of simple rules or suggestions. 1. Use the dealer option that guarantees delivery, and 2. make sure the package has only one and at the most two watches. A package full of watches is almost certain to draw scrutiny, especially in places where they are actively looking for counterfeit goods. Sending only one is no guarantee that it will get through, as several members have had single watch shipments confiscated, but it may help. Suggestion 1 above is really important as it guarantees the dealer will reship another watch. Also before you buy, if you are not sure, you need to make sure the dealer's policy is guaranteed delivery.

Here's a complete 7928 on VRM- for $3,980- seems like a better deal than buying gen parts and putting together a franken http://www.network54.com/Forum/207673/message/1425573979/FS+Tudor+Submariner+7928+w-+lollopop+hand+nice+condition+-------+

Shouldn't be any difference. The gen tube will be slightly too small for the rep, so will need to be epoxied in. You'll need gen crown of course too.

Still on the road. Bakersfield in the morning Fresno in the afternoon, now back in Bakersfield... Sent from my droptop using telepathy.

For $1,000 budget you should just buy the TC, swap the crown, crystal and bezel insert and be done with it. Don't worry about the movement (TC uses an improved upon ETA clone), and the new KH dial he is using is very, very close to gen.

I use a dremmel and mount the dial right on it with some rubber gaskets and then run it at slow speed and hold a file to the edge. Works really well. For motivational purposes (work by BigDazza, HR case, crown and dial):

If you want to to get really lucky on eBay, you should look for "typing errors" (I dont know the word in english) Fujitsu = Fujistu for a lot of users, and you can grab some very nice stuff at incredible prices sinc ethe visibility of the item is very low with this kind of mistake.. Breitling = bretling