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No, not that modern crap. I picked this dial up years and years ago for no good reason as the only bidder on eBay from a seller in Japan for pennies. I then found the midcase and bezel a few years later by chance from a seller in Australia for cheap and the project was on. The case is not branded, but it is probably a Waltham, or similar. I do believe it is the correct case (there are a bunch of slight variants on this deep diver case). I added an AS 1701 movement (still need the black date disc) and a sterile but otherwise correct case back. It probably had the brand polished away at some point so that there is just a faint serial number left. I also bought the correct handset on eBay for just $30. Found it on my very first search! But these are not those hands. The seller must have gotten another offer and magically "lost" them. Quite disappointing. So, here we have something that is close enough for now. The good news is that there are pictures of this watch on the internet with at least half a dozen hand sets, so either it came that way or the hands were replaced over the years. I would still like to find what I believe are the officially correct hands. I still need the correct case back, or to get mine engraved. That will be tough, so I'll probably stick with the sterile back. I did find a Blancpain case back for the 34mm version for sale awhile back, but at $700 it was more than I have in the whole project by a good margin. Cheers!

"I have also reached the station in life where I don't give a $hit about being nit-picked/called out." Me too, a long time ago. I used to have to decide between an MBK '5512' Frankenstein with a 1570 and an MBK '5513' F-stein with a 1520 until I swapped the 1570 for an ETA 2879 and took the '5513' apart. Then I had to decide between the MBK/ETA '5512' and a $150 cartel '5512' with a Seagull ST16 that I stuck together. The cartel/Seagull usually wins because the whole watch is worth about 20% of the MBK and killing it would not hurt much. The MBK/ETA '5512' is put away with the '5513' parts for now. I mostly wear an Accutron II 'Moonview' so I removed the automatic winding guts from the cartel ST16 and manually wind it (about 30 cranks) every morning even if I do not wear it for days at a time. Thirty cranks in 30 seconds = about 30 hours running. A manually operated watch winder...that's a new concept! Alert the media! It will put quartz watches out of business!

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I've been looking for a rep of the Tag Heuer Carrera Calibre Monaco Grand Prix, CAR2A83. I've found several of the earlier versions, but I'm looking for the 2014 version with the black dial, vertical stripes and a red pinstripe. Anyone know of a TD that carries one of these?