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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

Since the server move (if that's the correct expression), there are lots of historic links that don't work. For example, I was looking at some collections earlier - www.rwgforum.net/topic/155010-jaeger-lecoultre-master-compressor-navy-seals-automatic-diver - and it's unavailable. However if you replace the "rwgforum.net" with "rwg.cc" all is good again. www.rwg.cc/topic/155010-jaeger-lecoultre-master-compressor-navy-seals-automatic-diver Sorry if it's been posted before, or if I'm trying to teach people to suck eggs, it's just that there is a wealth of information here that should be available to all. Hope that helps

GOING BACK AND FORTH W/ GEN PICS LOOKS PRETTY GOOD OTHERWISE.

Agree with Hugop. Also the recent 087 is great in my opinion.

Best out of the box is the Noob 243 V2.

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Day 5 in the Caribbean with the Bronzo. Patina coming along nicely! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would use one from Lina: Like these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/311249600008 Or these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/311321546562

It is a 1016 kind of day. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well that turned out quite nicely didn't it! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Whaaaaaaat? I thought it looked sexy!

Congrats to all .. Am sure now the smoking room will get bigger and more noisier [emoji41][emoji41][emoji41][emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great group!!! Even if DH is "pretty in Pink" !!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The scotch is in the top drawer of Nanuqs desk....but I didn't tell you that ok Ken

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Nice ! Similar lume recipe for me. Lume powder, varnish, acrylic white paint, Terre de Sienne. House made dial.