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Hi All, I just received this beauty from Ryan at Intime and thought I might give a revue. Sometime back I had one of the first generation of these and it was a beautiful watch, but I was a little bothered by the inaccuracies on it. Unlike that one, this version does have the ratchet assembly that turns the inner bezel without affecting the crystal, which remains stationary. I’ve never felt a gen. bezel before, for comparison, but it seems to work fine in both directions. It is a little harder to turn in a clockwise direction than in counter clockwise, but I’m pleased that it works as the gen. unlike the old one. It’s a little spooky, almost like magic, when the outer and inner bezel moves without moving the crystal. The older version had pointy ends on the lugs, but on the gen they are squared off slightly. The beveled ends on this version may be squared off ever so slightly more than the gen., but it is hard to be sure from pictures. From the QC pictures I had doubts about the red printing above the lower sub-dial. Although they tried several times for a clear photo it still looked blurry and hard to read. I’m pleased to report that it looks great to the naked eye, but you can see from the attached photos that I had trouble photographing it too. It must be a problem with the camera’s ability to sort out the red on green color contrast. The texture of the dial seems a close match to photos of gens I found on the net. At first I was afraid the color of the green was too light, but since then I have found pictures on the net of two different colors of green, and this one closely matches the lighter one. I believe Breitling might have altered the green color somewhere along the line during production, but I guess it could be the photography that makes it look different too. It certainly is a nice color and I like it better than the darker versions I’ve seen photos of. Many years back I had a gen. two-tone 39mm Chronomat, which had nearly the same color dial. The bracelet is the best one I’ve seen yet on a Breitling rep. I’ve done nothing to it and it feels supple and fluid just like a gen. When the screws are tightened down it does not bind up, so I may not even Loctite the screws as I have on all my other Breitlings. The only flaw involves the speed adjustment on the clasp, which is a product of the last link not being rounded off properly. I would probably not use this feature anyway, but I will reshape it a little later on to get it working right. On my older version the end links on the bracelet did not fit properly and stuck out at an angle different to the angle of the lugs. I worked on it and made it fit better, but could never get it exactly right. On this watch it fit perfectly right from the start as you can see in the pictures I’ve attached. On this model the hands and markers are not bright steel color, but instead have a gunmetal tint. This seems to match pictures of gens I’ve seen on the net. Strangely, the maroon dial has bright silver as well as on the dark blue dial, but the lighter blue with the dial texture like this one, seems to have the gunmetal hands and markers as well. I’m not sure why they alter it from one color to the next, but it looks fine and is easy to read, especially against the lighter colored sub-dials. When the light hits them right, they reflect just like bright polished steel. The AR seems typical of most recent Breitling reps and is very gen like IMHO. The lume is bright and stays readable for hours, although like my Navitimer there are only small dots next to the markers. In my opinion the only obvious tell is the incorrect hand on the subdial at 12. Although it’s only a minor flaw if I can find one I intend to change it later to the correct shape, which has an arrow shaped tip. I am consistently amazed by how each generation of these reps keeps improving. I’ve owned many gens over the years and IMHO they are getting remarkably near the quality of the gens, at least in appearance. The back cover engraving on this model is especially nice. It reminds me of Japanese products back in the 1950’s. At that time to say something was made in Japan was synonymous to labeling it cheap or poorly made. Now they make some of the best quality products in the world. Admittedly the Chinese are infringing on trademarks and manipulating the value of their currency, but so did Japan during the 1960’s and 1970’s, and still are to some extent.

Going gen today.

This does happen!

Great job on the "gnarly" hands! This looks like an all business, no fluff or pampering, "man's" watch!

No. The 703-0 tubes that cousins has is fine(correct) for a 5513 if you want to use a 703 crown. Depends on how period -correct you want to be. 1960's 5513's used 700-0 tubes. Early-mid '70's used 702-0 tubes, and late 70's-late '80's used 703-0 tubes.

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Sorry Legend, and tonight I'm listening to lions roar in the zoo across the street. This afternoon I went off into the deep blue sea and ran into a few big barracuda, but alas I didn't have the camera to catch the moment with the Frosty Flake as a wristie. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a Tiger shark photo. I hope!

Welcome to the forum. Generally this forum doesn't get involved with QC pictures, it's between you and the seller. Puretime is a Trusted Dealer, I have used them and found them good. Look at the pictures carefully, expand them on your computer. Do the numbers line up? Are the batons straight (this watch doesn't have applied batons so no issue there)? Search the net for images of genuine watches. If you are happy confirm the QC, wait for delivery and enjoy your watch.

Not sure it's applicable here, but left justification has always been a problem with vintage Rolex builds if you use a gen dial or a gen spec aftermarket dial. The DW position is slightly different for gen movements and ETA movements, so a dial that uses a date window position that looks fine with and ETA movement will not be OK if you use a gen movement, or one of the 3135 clones that has the gen location DW. I had this problem with my 1680 when I put a gen dial in. Not sure why this problem has cropped up with these V6's if previous versions were OK , unless they are using the same dial for both the 3135 clone and the a2836. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Unfortunately, once you send these scammers your money, you are out of luck. The first BIG red flag is they offer Swiss made replicas. Total BS. Switzerland has the most draconian anti counterfeiting laws in the world. A factory making replicas in Switzerland would be shut down in the blink of and eye, and the principals put in jail. Absolutely no reps coming from the Swiss, guaranteed. Experiences like this are why we urge members to stick to trusted dealers on this and other rep forums. These sites have a long history of scamming folks. They all use photos of genuine watches, and deliver Canal Street quality junk. They have these pseudo -reviews, that are completely bogus, written by the guys running the sites. Just try to write a negative review and see if it ever sees the light of day! Run do not walk away from these scammers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Your son is a really handsome little devil. I'm sure you and your wife are very proud of him.

Hey DH, check this... Lifeproof case on an iPhone:

2013 Jeep Wrangler. I have owned and driven a lot of cars but this one is by far my favorite Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

At what DPI did you print? Absolutely. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

thanks my friend! sure, with the greatest pleasure: and as it is out today such a wonderful watch and piece of art - build from a real great guy!

ah yes back to reality dug up a post on RWI regarding a watch someone bought from swisstimes.sr.. back to earth boys. (Especially for impulse-suckers like me). The pics were definitely of the gen watch, but the watch itself most probably is a piece of cheap chinese trash.. 01-14-2013, 08:07 PM "Hello, I am quite new to the board and this is my first post. I have been buying from puretime.co and am happy with it. However, like all or most of us, we want the best and closest to the genuine product. I made my first purchase on swisstime.sr which is apparantely the same as bestclones.to. I used swisstime.sr because of it's flexability. They claim all the best things such as 904 stainless steel, 30 day money back guaranteed etc. They made me wait two weeks then gave me a tracking number from China. When I questioned about it they said that the watch had nothing to do with China, and they just used China to ship the watch to Canada for customs ease purposes. I received my watch 3 weeks later and it is a bad replica. It's not even 1:1 like at puretime. I am trying to refund but they are refusing now, insisting me to exchange it with something else. CAUTION: These are not clones or anywhere near clones. Their watches are very very light and not worth $100."