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Got mine at last today. Will be taking this puppy apart this week. Stay tuned Mark -------- Ok guys, I made this promise in the most terrible time. Next week I'm away on business all week. The week after is my holiday vacation so I have some more time on my hands to continue. In the mean time I won't leave you hanging. After all the kind words I already started the tear down but did nog completely strip it down yet. But I will post some pics and share some thoughts. Will continue next week and give some more information. First off. The movement not only looks great. It performed superb on arrival. The readings do not suggest it would need service. But than again... Readings don't always speak the truth. In this case they do. At least so far.... A very very clean and we'll oiled movement. Nothing like I have ever seen. All jewels are nicely oiled and the hair spring coils are perfectly spaced. Rotor attachment Most parts of the auto-winder are the same as the 2824. (2824 parts on the left) Lost the pic of the reversing wheels but they are also the same. Same accounts to the pallet fork. o-ring in crown Some say the dial side looks like the a7750. That only accounts to the keyless works. I would imagine that is interchangeable also. The rest seems newly designed. End of part one. So what do I think so far? I like it. Well designed, clean, oiled and build to last. Due to the fact some parts are A2824 and some parts are A7750 it even doesn't scare me that much (like the aP3000) when it comes to parts. My guess is this movement is designed and made by Seagull. It has all the characteristics. Stay tuned for part 2 PART 2 Thanks the reminder GentLe. I forgot about this thread due to the holidays (shame on me) So you might have guessed it, I completely pulled apart the rest of the movement. You will see some additional pictures below with a short description and at the end my final thought about this movement. Random picture Base movement and gear train. Basic, clean, well finished. I would say bullet proof! Gear train jewels also properly lubed Naked and pretty! Clean but dry main spring + barrel Keyless (7750 parts below. They are an exact match) The long main spring generating exactly 75 hours power reserve. Final thoughtSo what do I think about this movement? I love it. It is really well finished. The way the plates are machined and plated and also the way the decoration is done, all very good. The movement was perfectly clean and well oiled overall. It is designed and manufactured from the ground up and my guess is that a big movement factory like Seagull or Huangzou is behind it. So how does it perform? Well as mentioned earlier the auto wind module is designed like the ETA28xx series. Which has proven itself over the years. So no worries in that department. The keyless design is from the ETA 77xx series. Also no complaints there. The rest of the movement is pretty basic like a hand wind UNITAS 64xx series. It's also as big as one. The only part I was curious about was the PR design. But they designed it flawlessly. Now that I write this I can truly say that they have combined the best of 3 worlds (movements) and put a cherry on top! I don't think we will see a lot of these movements breaking down in the near future. After service it is now running and performing exactly the same as before the tear-down: perfectly If I had to to be finicky I could mention 2 attention points of this movement. - The barrel walls were dry: in order to provide the proper slippage to the bridle and diminish wear greasing of the barrel wall is in order. - The tiny washer underneath the PR-indicator wheel was causing problems and needed to be corrected. Due to an improper bend the PR-hand pinion was tilting making the hand unparalleled to the dial. Of course the state of these rep movements can vary. This one can be clean and perfectly oiled (besides the barrel) whereas others can suffer from all sorts of problems. I have seen that many times before. The inconsistency with rep movements is very high unfortunately. You simply don't know until you take it apart. I know the V2 is out with the movement decoration plate but I prefer the movement without it. All those fake gears, levers and plates can be spot easily by anybody that knows even the tiniest bit about movements. Stuff just looks off. The V1 may not carry all the correct markings but it shows a real and beautiful decorated movement with real jewels, gears etc. The V1 is a nice C-cup whereas the V2 is a fake D-cup.... That's all folks Mark

A Visit from Saint Nicholas 'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus Musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the woodburning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas. The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically through their cerebra. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal cranial coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing the fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline aqueous precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself, thus permitting my incredulous optical sensor to peruse a miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by an octet of diminutive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated caller. With his undulate motive power traveling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by his or her respective cognomen ... "Now Dasher, now Dancer..." et al., guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities. As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was performing a 180 degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved, with utmost celerity and via a downward leap, entry by way of the smoke passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue from the oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in a commodious cloth receptacle. His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability. The capillaries of his molar regions and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the latter that of the Prunus Avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water. Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smokingpiece whose gray fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical container. Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the aforementioned hosiery with articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an abrupt about-face, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith affected his egress by renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observable chiefly among the seedbearing portions of a commonweed. But I overheard his parting exclamation, audible immediately prior to his vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletides to the planetary constituency, and to that self-same assemblage my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn."

Find a good gen 6538 lug photo, then have a good feeling before start. First I cut top lug edge with dremel #402 disk without trembling. Be careful, it shave quickly. And I correct with #431. I sand mid case side and bevel separately to keep the edge. 240, 400, 600, 1000 sand paper successively. 1500 would be better to finish but I can't find it in my place. Then polish side and bevel separately. Always separately to keep the chamfers edges. I don't know if it's the good way, but it worked for me.

My Franken 15400 should be ready in first half of next year. Will post pics. All you can do is install a gen dial I got lucky Check ebay and chrono24 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello, folk! Haven't logged on here in ages. I had just recently learned of Alan's passing and wanted to extend condolences to the many friends he had here. I know many of you knew him personally, and many more, as I, in the 'virtual' sense. I know you all brought him so much happiness evidenced in how much he enjoyed RWG over years. Many may not know the history of this board, it's first incarnation where many of us first met. Alan included. The situation of the old board's decay in the absence of a web master prompted the Admin. here to build this site. As a lark, and not for anything aside quirky 'gonzo' for the sake of quirky 'gonzo' a few of us held on to that thin raft that was the original RWG and tried to paddle it into an ocean current that would take the rudderless ship somewhere. For two years we drifted along as the bastard ghost ship of the rep forums and the brunt of many deserved jabs and jokes but enjoyed the experiment and had some good fun. Throughout that time, as many here did, or tried to, Alan would make a point to stop by from time to time, to post in a watch thread, extend holiday greetings or make casual comment in 'Off Topic'. Those days he lent the tattered remains of that old bird much legitimacy, class and 'Offshore' style. I was always most grateful for his kind effort. He was a stern and focused and accomplished man but had a wide streak of charitable caring for people. He was a friend to the true definition of the word. The world is much less a place in his absence. Peace Alan. Dems

Good morning gents. Recovering from shoulder surgery yesterday. Hard to take a decent pick with right arm in sling...

I managed to miss today's wristies as I've been busy - no internet where I am other than wifi so I have to wait until later in the day to post usually. Anyway, for a spot of fun (also as it's a bit quiet here), I thought I'd post a lume shot and see how good you guys are! What am I wearing?

Hi, thanks for the tip. But It turns out I had one spare dome crystal orignally for my TC BC 6200 that does fit perfectly Big Daz' case (30,6mm), so I used it: And Imho, those builds look soooo much better with a lower dome crystal. I do have the same tools that you have, any tips for the bevels job (with the dremel) ?

The movement-tear-down-guy strikes again! Very nice! I was holding back a bit because of the movement, but if you say it looks good so far, that's good enough for me

Old fav

Omega Seamaster GMT

Rolexman did a partial review here, waiting for him to come back from the vacations to read the 2nd part of it. So far looks like the movement is pretty good.

Doin' fine, M, trying to stay out of trouble and helping people build Explorers! See what you started?

I heard Joshua has them but there's a problem with the reactor core. Keeps your wrist nice and warm, but you grow testicles on your forehead. Wait for v2.0, it's guaranteed to be 1:1.

Wearing the 'Graph today

In answer to your question; arguably the Russians have the best sub in the Typhoon.

This is the smoking lounge with scotch, cigars and fine wingback chairs ... not the bowling alley. Benson! More Laphroaig neat, if you please.

Things got hectic in the last few months, and I lost touch with one of my favorite subforums. Hope all is well with you, J! I still dream of a similar build one day but, like the OP says, everything hinges on the right dial.

This is the place for serious experienced gentlemen, no flame parties with witty attacks and counters, no endless noobs (one watch buying wonders asking stupid questions) or witch hunts , gulags, penalty boxes and I use a nuke only as a last resort after a full hearing held. " but a lot of that is trivial chit chat and lots of back stabbing. " +1 The guys from all over come here if they are trying to build a watch because most of the brain power/knowledge of the rep world is here. I have see some excellent word smiths next store they pride them selves on verbal exchanges their command of the written language is truly impressive. Now dbane (and plenty of others) could there kick ass on builds, this ain't the debate club watches is why we are here.

This is really stunning, and the dial is just... [Picture a stereotypical Italian chef kissing his fingertips.] MWAH! Congratulations on a fantastic build!