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The Miyota 9015 is a great work horse, reliable and efficient similar to the Toyota Hilux going through a war zone. Three problems in using it as a direct substitute to replace in a Noobmariner or any rep purchased from our reliable friendly dealers. (1) As you have declared, it does not match up the dial casing and hand specs. As for dial feet being off, then it is a "No" right away for me. I hate, HATE,........hate, hate,..... with an absolute passion cutting off dial feet and trying to glue, epoxy, solder or whatever miracle substitutes the relocation of dial feet. I have disposed of many great dials because of this problem. Out of 9 or 10 of them that I have tried this, by all sorts of methods such as buying new dial feet to epoxy on, it is a hit or a miss and the chances of when casing the dial with movement, they seem to break off, especially when realigning the stem and trying to make case clamps to hold it in tight or even to remove the movement again for a replacement. I only have one that has worked and it is with an eta onto a genuine dial, which has had the one of the hands slightly off line, and I am not game enough to take out to realign simply because of this happening until service time. (2) the 3.9mm thickness of the mechanism versus the 5.25mm eta may present stem alignment problems. I am not skilled enough to make modifications to address this issue (3) finding the right hands would be another issue. Regarding ""many"" women, whether they happen to be rocket scientists or just lame Janes, I have noticed that they usually always put aesthetics before quality, safety, practicality and durability regardless of cost. It is just the way the sea is made up of water and the earth is made up of soil. Not a criticism and to disclaim myself from any wrong doing, I will label this as my opinion only from my observations!!!! There is nothing surprising or wrong with wearing an Apple watch or no watch at all regardless of gender. A woman's best friend are diamonds -not watches!!! A man's best friend is his dog and maybe his watch if funds will permit it!!!! An expensive mechanical watch is now an anachronism item, very much like wearing a top hat at a the royal gala. Nobody would wear a top hat when going to the supermarket unless you have a sane enough creed for it!!! You have a watch on your phone or if you really miss wearing something around your arm, just look for a cereal carton with children's free bees added in those cartons and you may be lucky to get an accurate reliable working watch - who knows!!!. I usually wear one of these plastic give aways when doing the garden which I throw away at the end of the season. Automatico, I love your posts and they are so informative and a true asset for me to cut and paste in my archives. Thanks for them as I am sure others feel the same

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Your stories are always amazing mate and great to here how the watch market (especially rolex) was in the past. I thought the Daytona was always hard to get except of the 4 digit ones that were basically sitting in the shelf for long. Yet, it seems like you got them super easily? In any case at this point in time I was barely born so missed all those opportunities of course. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I used a brand new Zenith 400 and bought all the rolex parts in order to convert it so genuine hands fit. No need in my eyes to change bridges and reduce the beat rate! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk