Leaderboard

Cool to see all the familiar names and friends here again. All the best to everyone! Still around, still into watches and watchmaking but only very limited to build my own collection. A busy and successful career in Marketing threw me the other way…,

DW is long gone. He made some very nice Daytonas- 6239-6263/5 but the only way to get them is thru another member who might be selling one. He made two types of Daytonas- the ones with an asian 7750 movement and the cases that fit a Valjoux 72 movement. I would think that your watch has the asian 7750 movement,but it would be a real treat if it has a V72 in it. But even back in the day it was hard to build a 6263 with a V72 for $600. In the late 2000s a V72 movement alone cost $600-1000 and the DW parts were $300. A watchmaker to put it together would be another $200-300.

Like auto says- check out RWI- tripdog does good work- I believe he's in the UK but not 100% sure of that.

There are a few guys on RWI who do case work so you might read up on RWI and see who's who. I learned how to do much of the case work on my own but it ain't easy and if you make a mistake, the case may be ruined or ugly as a wet rat. In reality, you have three options: 1...Learn to do it yourself. 2...Find $omeone to do what you want done. 3...Buy the best example you can find at your price and live with it. I used to be an 'option 1 guy' but burned out/wised up and am now an 'option 3 guy'. I will qualify that statement by saying my expectations are probably lower than many/most RWG members because I came to the conclusion a long time ago that 95% of people you know or come in contact with cannot tell a $200 replica from a $3000 replica. The people you know will say "NIce replica" after you tell them what it is and maybe ask a few questions about it. They will assume any watch you are wearing is a replica thereafter. The people you do not know might comment on the watch and if you tell them it is a replica, most of them will mentally or verbally label you as a scam artist of the lowest order. If you tell them "It is genuine" they will figure it is a replica anyway and go on about their business. A few may ask "How can you tell?" and others might ask "Where can I get one?" I just say "Dunno, I got it from a friend"...after all, I see this 'friend' in the mirror every day so I am not lying. https://forum.replica-watch.info/forums/vintage-watches.232/