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It is a nice watch. No offense but that is a LOT of $$ for a steel watch with $100 gold bezel, a watch that is not in high demand...imho. I peg a used one in 85/90% condition at $2500, maybe $3000. That is all I would pay...but I'll probably never find one at that price. Then again, you never know. After all, I bought a lady tutone 69173 sapphire DJ for $500 last summer. It needed a rotor axle and the owner would not pay the AD/RWC Robber Baron Repair Price to have it fixed. A new rotor fixed it, now I have $600 in it. Not bad. In my experience... I have purchased quite a few brand new AD rlx watches in my time and had a bad feeling about every one (except the Daytonas I flipped) because of the amount of $$ I paid for what I got. Looking back...the only rlx watches I felt good about were the bargains I snagged. Bargains like the new 14010/14010M AKs I bought for $1000 each, 12 or 15 of them, same as new from people who got them for 25 year service awards and would rather have the money. Bought the last one a few years ago and wore it for a while, still have it, with silver dial iirc. The others were resold still same as new. Correction...I checked, still have two of them, silver dials. Bought a 90%+ condition 14000M with dark blue dial a couple years ago for $1000 at the local flea market from a guy needing $$ so bargains are still out there. They are $4k now on eBay (!!). I put the amount of $$ I am willing to spend in a pocket and shop around for bargains. No bargains, no loss. Ca$h talks, especially now with many people needing money and not needing fancy watches. I liked the new 39mm 'explorers' but not at $7000 or $8000 so I bought a like new replica with a defective 2836 etaclone, took it out, threw it away (where it really belongs), and put a c/o nos swisseta 2836 in it. Now I have a new 'explorer' that runs like a champ. I bet a replica like the DJ above could be done the same way and no one would know the diff...this being a replica forum. It might scratch the itch for a while.