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Thanks for the update and since you have just received it, keep us informed again in say a couple of months, just to make sure they have not just replaced the movement with another one of their recently assembled hit or miss movements. Lets remember that although these suppliers are trusted dealers, they do not necessarily have to be watch smiths in the sense that they know what the internals of what they are selling have. Even more important, lets keep in mind that this hobby we follow isn't exactly supported by a perfectly legal business either because it is an infringement of intellectual and propriety rights to the true owners of the brand Which is why it is strongly recommended that you do not ever raise any unpleasant issues with paypal as a first line option As for professionally watch makers they can also be a hit or a miss. Some are good and some are not so good, regardless of training or qualifications. I personally knew one that could put square pegs into round holes and vice versa. Lets say that he could see outside the square and improvise very much like a jazz pianist as opposed to a classically trained piano player that just performs what he reads in front of him. Most qualified watchmakers are like classically trained pianists. If you are lucky to have a jazz trained watchmaker which I believe can still be found, then you should take your replica watch to him and get a proper makeover like a complete service Pay him what he asks as you will not regret it!!!! The other option is if you are confident in removing the movement from it yourself and as Automatico mentioned, remove the hands and dial and send it off to have it completely serviced to someone that is willing to just service a movement. A fiurther option you may choose if you are good at this part, is to buy a sterile dial from ebay and fit it onto it and take it into ANY reputable watch smith, then they will see it as just that and will service it for you without thinking twice about whether it is a knockoff, replica or a wart from a cl@#. I have found some watchmakers that are great at their art, but also have small minds when it comes to replica watches. As an experiment I took into the same watchmaker my MBW submariner and he frowned at me in advising me to throw it into the rubbish bin after he opened it to find an eta movement in it. When I returned home, I removed the dial and replaced it with a sterile raffles dial and asked my wife to go to the same watchmaker a few weeks later. He gave her what I considered a reasonable quote for what was needed. So you see it is all in the mind. What is an image??? In our world of small minds -EVERYTHING!!!!! I learnt to do a lot myself and can service my own watches but poor eye sight and a bad Carpel Tunnel operation has put the brakes on me. As for etaclones, Automatico again hits the nail on the head with one full blow!!! With my experience, they are not worth the risk as for the price of one third more, you might as well get the real McCoy!!!! I have had nothing but problems with their crappy keyless works with yokes breaking, flimsy set lever springs snapping when hooking onto the post, shot through reverser wheels and tin thin like parts. Mind you this is one I paid US90 and worse still the seller offers no guarantee on these.

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Life is amazing and I certainly intend to continue this journey. Only good things happen to me, even in hard times like these. Many many thanks V. May you have a blessed day 🙏

Some cash heading your way say! Stay sober and keep fighting!

https://www.cousinsuk.com/category/abrasive-blocks That is what you are searching for. I prefer to use coarse, then medium from Garryflex https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/garryflex-abrasive-blocks Bergeon is quite nice too, not as "flakey", but does not justify the huge price difference.

Greed... That is what happens when you sell modified cheap Vietnam parts, in the US, using one of the most hardcore privately owned watch brands in the world. I know a lot of you guys loved him. But all he did was reshape. When I asked him for a quote on a 6263 18K YG case it was >10000 EUR. When I asked why the big difference compared to the SS one, he said work was more complicated. When I said that work should be simpler since YG is easier to mold and work with than SS, he said "take it or leave it". Remove about 1500 EUR for the YG. Remove about 15000 EUR for a regular SS case. >7000 EUR was his profit compared to a SS one. That. Is. Bull. Shiet.

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Your stem does look too thick. You need a tap 10 stem which is .9mm. All Rolex crowns are .9mm. Should be easy to find a stem- 23 and 72 stems are the same as I recall. Dial feet on your movement look to be 12 or 13 and maybe 43 minutes which is what I believe a v72 is also. If the stem doesn't line up in the case, that would be another problem, but maybe a spacer would work. You might google and see what else you can find.