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Oh how wonderful to be outdoors in a warm climate in Nov!

Im saying gen on this one. Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk

After dabbling in oversized monstrosities for a few days I'm back to the size God intended ... 37mm

Here's one for comparison.

Fellow members, please join me in giving our new member the best of cordial welcomes to RWG!

I have a few hand held loupes that I use ranging from 7x to 15x. Cost of these have ranged from $10 up to $50. What bothers me most of all of them is the field of view. Because it's very difficult to get edge-to-edge sharpness, every loupe has distortion as you radiate out from the Centre. Some of my Bausch Lomb loupes are very good, but they are very small; roughly 1.5 cm at most. Amateur photography is one of my other hobbies and I was staring at the macro filters on my desk the other day. So I decided to gang them up to see what would happen. To my surprise, it works great. I think the combination of 10x, 4x, 2x, and 1x works out to an equivalent of 15-20x mag factor (assume it's closer to 17x), and because these filters are 49mm wide, it's very easy to hold, has a wide field of view, and optically very good. Here's a few pics: I think my filters are of reasonable quality and total cost was about $100 but there are plenty of cheaper alternatives in the marketplace. For me, I don't have a use for these size filters anymore and they have now found a new purpose. There is a loupe I considered last year called the "Loupe System", which is advertised to be bigger and better. But at $500-800 (!), WTF! http://www.loupesystem.com/ But you can buy a similar kit like the one I put together here for roughly $10-20 from eBay. Not sure I'll ever buy a traditional loupe again.

Perfect ! Just received this Neewer 52MM Kit Macro Close-up. Thanks !

Shhhhhhh!!! You're talking halfway across the world from me and it's messing up my readings!

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Great pick up!

I apologize, was a little short with the above post. We are glad to help you sir. First , where are you located? We have some very talented guys here who are well versed in getting our broken watches working again. We can give you more specific help depending on whether you are in the USA, UK,EU,etc. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

"Know what's a fair price for this? I see $1500-1900 is that about right?" In today's market probably. "A fair price is what a buyer is willing to pay." True. I simply can/will not pay today's prices. I guess that is why I am on a replica site. Last 1030 (1066) I bought a few years back was in an 80% condition 1959 6605 SS DJ for $700 with a swiss jubilee bracelet. One before that was a 1956 tutone 6605 with original tt bracelet for $1000 but it has a refinished dial. A few years ago some of the 'rolexperts' claimed they never made a tutone 6605, only SS and all gold...until they started showing up. Btw, the 1030 has one more or less common problem that is expen$ive to fix today because of few parts...the winding rotor bearing p/n 7004. They used to be $30, now they are $200 or $300 when you can find one and many movements will need one. Projects with cal 1520/30/60/70 usually end up costing less and parts are much easier to find. Rotor bearings for a 15xx are $15 or $20 a set but it is usually the rotor axle that goes bad, about $12 plus labor. Reverser parts for a 1030 are harder to find than 15xx parts too.

'If Stettler make crystals for Rolex, they probably wouldn't sell to you directly- I'd figure that they have an exclusive relationship with Rolex." Stettler might also sell aftmkt generic crystals that are sold under other brands as some aftmkt sapphire crystals are 'swiss made'. I doubt there are many outfits making them in swissland because of the startup cost. It may be like the mainspring maker 'Generale Ressorts'...they make almost all of the 'swiss made' mainsprings, rolex included. http://www.ofrei.com/page1721.html

The Rolex 295 C crystal has a unique side profile. The Clark's crystal that I got had a flat edge, but it worked fine on my MBW 16610 with gen like construction. I don't know about the Startime crystal, but looking at the enlarged picture, it may have the correct side profile. For $30, it's not much of a gamble to try one out. Cousinsuk has the correct crystal, you might check it out. I got a 295c from mymanmatt and it had the correct profile, but it came with a watch case that I was buying from him. If Stettler make crystals for Rolex, they probably wouldn't sell to you directly- I'd figure that they have an exclusive relationship with Rolex.

New (to me) "SWISS T

This is the 1655 case from Josh- shaped and lugholes drilled dial from Ingod44- too bad he's gome hands from rafflestime including small GMT hand bezel from Clarks, insert was just lying around