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How could I say no to a man who marches up and down the square,sniffing lines of cocaine from the breast of buxom brunettes? A man after my own heart that hambone. Best wishes and prayers Eric. Mike

Excuse the bad lighting but was too excited to wait for better weather ;-) Here are some pics:

Happy friday to everyone! I just wanted to share a few thoughts, comments and photos of my newly finished franken PO 42mm. The only reason I've started this project in the first place is because I had a broken ETA 2824 movement inside a rep PO. So it all started when I accidentally dropped the watch on the floor at the pet store when one of the strap pins came undone and the watch just fell of my wrist. Obviously there was nothing I could have done do catch it or to save it! After couple of months of thinking about what to do with so much loved but not running Omega I've found a local watchmaker who looked at the movement and said that there is a mainspring broken but the movement could be overhauled and running as good as new. His price of repair was a lot less that buying a new eta 2824. At this time I thought: "what the hell, new year is coming, lets add some genuine parts and build a nice looking Omega". Since the watch and the movement was all taken apart it will be easier to swap the parts. So I ordered gen parts from ofrei and here is what I got: Gen Dial Gen Hands Gen Crystal Gen Bezel Gen Crown Gen Tube The only issue was the Bezel - ofrei did not have one in stock so I had to wait 3extra weeks for the entire order to come in. Crown and Tube I installed myself as the watchmaker did not feel comfortable installing one because the parts were not original and would not fit. The old tube came out of the case like a charm. It was screwed in, so after filing a nice deep groove I used a flat screwdriver to unscrew the tube and the gen tube was epoxied in the place. There is plenty of instruction on this forum so I can say it was pretty easy to do and made a nice improvement. The rest of the modifications were done by a local professional watch maker and it came out rather nice. There is a HUDGE improvement in the lume of the hands and dial. The rep may look right but the difference is day and night! Same thing with the crystal and bezel. I've also decided to add a genuine strap instead of a rep bracelet because the quality of the bracelet was not there. So I ordered a ten strap and the buckle along with a pair of swiss made spring bars from ofrei and installed it right away. One thing I should mention is that compared to swiss springbars, the ones that came with the watch originally is garbage. The are very thin, not sturdy and the spring is very weak. New springbars is a big difference in quality and I am confident that the strap will stay in place. So for the price it is a great investment in safety as they are only $2.30ea. Looks like I've covered everything, so here we go, enjoy the pictures and let me know what you guys think!

Not sure which one to pick today between the newly refinished Baron and a very nice Oris Diver received yesterday! Either way, have a great Sunday guys AJ

Ok just to let everyone know Bergies is now back at work, I do however have over 50 mails to process so those waiting I ask to please be patient as I work through them and can I also request those looking for new orders to hold off for a day or two. Thank you Ken

I've got 6,3 in wrists and here some wrist shots of the Hublot Big Bang's I own:

Today started with the gorgeous AP Carbon and after getting the end links mounted in the lathe and opened up a tiny bit, I finished fitting the gen clasp to the 45.5 UPO.

All green for this sunday!

Zixen on the wrist today! Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk

Still rejoicing in the Seahawks victory. Sporting the YM today to go with the jersey.

1600 back on the jubilee

I think you're mixing up watch models a bit. This review talks about the smaller, older, 16610 Submariner, with alu insert. "v3 coming out soon" references to the announced Noobmariner 116610 Sub, the current, larger model with ceramic insert. In contrast to the BK and TC models discussed here, the Noobmariner is a chinese, out-of-the-box model of arguably nice quality.

The best? Might want to narrow that down a bit. Means different things to different people. Not to mention there are hundreds of DJ and DD options available. It's a bit like saying I want to buy the best car. Are you looking for the best out of the box, without doing any mods, or a franken with mostly genuine parts? If it's the latter, and you don't want to go to mymanmatt, then you'll have to collect the parts yourself and build it, or send it to an EU watchmaker for assembly. DateJusts are pretty easy to find gen parts for. It's probably the best starter franken you can build. If you just want something good enough out of the box, then Sead had some pretty good DateJust offerings recently with ETA (stated) movements. He can ship from the UK, so that' s probably your best bet. The DayDate's are a bit trickier to build frankens of, but I'm sure Sead could probably find you a good out of the box rep of one of those too. Just contact him and tell him what you are looking for.

OH crap NW now you got poor Jack on the hunt for the V2 clasp! LOLROF

V3 bracelet with V2 clasp is better than V3:); You need a V3 and a V2 bracelet to make the best; Factory that made V3 stopped making it; no more V3, new factory makes V4. V4 will be improved sometime, ..........wait for V5. Expect higher price too.

Before you ask sorry not parting ,was a gift from a friend.

I'll save you the trouble. You can't.

The winding bridge fits and work perfectly

OK took my macro so now the dial is focused and the lady is less because of the lesser depth of field

On my wrist now Sent from Samsung Note 3

The only problem I can see with this setup is, if someone breaks into your house. You will find a load of Crap right in front of it, as the thief $hits himself and Then steals them all thinking he hit the Mother-Load. :-) Very nice setup. Dave...