krustybrand

Mrs. Krusty & I both drive C-Class Mercedes, except mine is an AMG. Wonderful cars. Reliable and cheap to maintain.

It's unfortunate that the youth of today are so ready to accept mediocrity and garbage in the name of technological progress. MP3 sound quality is absolute crap. I listen frequently to MP3s played through my digital cable to my stereo. My system is very good, with Snell Acoustics speakers. MP3s sound faraway and dead. When I put an analogue tape of Tony Bennett into my Nakamichi deck, the whole room just comes alive with the sound. CDs generally can't match a good tape or vinyl either, as most are recorded in a very sloppy manner. I don't see good watches ever going out of fashion much as I don't see audiophile equipment ever dying out either.

My reply was partially tongue-in-cheek, not a condemnation of youth. I don't know why they have to go into malls to interview young people. I guess it's too tough to track down the ones who are busy studying, working or volunteering at hospitals, old-age homes, etc.

I'm glad the young generation doesn't see the point of a watch. Now they can just beat each other up for the iPods and leave me and my watches alone.

I recall this discussion on another board, and if I recall correctly, Rolex USA is a bit like a franchise of sorts - completely independent of Rolex itself. They license the rights to sell the product in an exclusive territory, hence the deal with US Customs. In the USA, you are not dealing with Rolex, but rather Rolex USA - by all rights a separate and distinct company, and if you import, you are taking their sales.

Thanks for that, Ubi. I was always under the impression that the date would not line up, but now I have a YM that may see this same transplant.

It is a bit nuts, admin, but I suspect there is a significant fraction of buyers these days in the $250,000 range who are overextended, and an interest rate rise will force them back into the rental market. When that happens, Mrs. Krusty (that's her in my avatar) and I will be in like vultures either in the east end or up in North York.

It's clearly an 'm' on mine.

Andrew's version does, in fact, have a very noticable blue AR coating. Just like the gen.

I believe the issue is with the reliability of the UTC module itself. More than one dealer has told me that the return rate of this model is abnormally high.

Also, all red pigments are fugitive (ask any artist), so even on a gen, after a few years the red tip of the second hand will be different than it is now.

I've never had any issues getting packages from Andrew to Toronto. Packages from the US are another matter. I ALWAYS end up paying duty and taxes on them.

This guy seems to make a tidy profit buying various reps and selling them piece by piece.

I have to ask you about the gen crystal you installed. In a bygone post, you mentioned that it would not sit far enough in. What did you do about that? I am modding a 2254 at the moment and have many gen parts coming, including a crystal. I have access to and skills to use a complete machine shop.

I'm doing up a Marine Chronometer 40mm with a gen rubber/titanium strap, gen dial, and appropriate ETA movement that Ulysse Nardin used, and am fabricating the correct bezel. The reps have awful dials as well as incorrect knurled bezel, pushers and crown. I can machine a correct bezel and adapt the case appropriately for the movement and dial and get the correct pushers and crown. The hands will be a challenge, as the reps are bad too. It's come together on the drawing board, and my brother (a machinist expert at miniature work) is going to be here for the weekend during which we will be drafting the final bezel sketches. It won't likely be done until summer, when I can spend some time at his house doing the machining.

Subdial spacing, I know. But they are reliable. The new Breitlings truly are good, though. I just traded my fully serviced new Navitimer for a 4th gen PO, and I am selling my Chrono Avenger Ti tomorrow to make room for a new DW Daytona. I do love the Breitlings and am thinking of getting a gen Montbrillant Datora later this year. If I could get a good case for that one, a gen dial and the correct ETA movement would make a convincing rep, but I can't find a halfway decent case in a rep. Watch this space later this year for an amazing (one-off) Ulysse Nardin rep I'm working on!

The pre-2000 Daytona is quitea good rep, although not very popular. It is the rep of the Zenith movement Daytona and the 7750 is a perfectly adequate movement for this app. Everyone wants the new Daytona though.

That guy is constantly parting out reps as genuine. Any time I see an interesting auction, then see Flushing, NY as the item location, I know it's him and a rep part.

What you are trying to do is polish out the small scratches and leave even smaller ones, all the while cutting not enough material off to remove the scratches that make up the brushed finish. Most metal polishes will do that for you. I had a tube of GT88 kicking around from when some idiot spray painting the other side of the fence separating my driveway from the gas station next door painted a section of the door of my Mercedes before he realized what he was doing. It works OK on car paint, but it really works well on stainless. Cheap and easy to find in an automotive store.

Mine is from The Simpsons. Krusty the Clown has all kinds of products branded as "Krusty Brand" that are nothing but utter crap - sort of like what the folks at TZ (quite mistakenly) think of our reps. My wife, who is Chinese, got me into reps and I couldn't be happier, although she realizes she might have created a monster.

Go to their Rolex comparison chart. They are actually telling people that you need to pay $700-$1200 for a Rolex rep or you will get nothing but crap.

It is noteworthy that every "recommended" site from that link is a known scam, and that if you follow the links to "customer testimonials", entire threads that are supposedly from various people discussing someone's wonderful experience are from the same ISP. Stick with the dealers here, and avoid the known scam sites that charge you the earth for these "Swiss #1 grade replicas" (no such thing).

I would think an AD could simply order it for you if they don't have it in stock. Just tell them that you will install it yourself and are skilled and equipped to do so. Most Omega dealers I know aren't snobbish like some of the other brands. You shouldn't have any issues.

Look for The Zigmeister's teardown post of this application for the 7750 and see what he thinks of the Daytona rep with the seconds running at 6. There's just so much extra load with the modifications necessary to shift the subdials all over the face like they have done.

Just roll your cursor over any link in one of these emails and the link address should be visible in a tooltip type popup or at the bottom of your mail program window, depending on which mail program or operating system you use. You can see immediately that if you follow the link, you will be on an address that has nothing to do with pp. Or, you can disable HTML in your mail program and view everything as text. The scam site addresses become obvious for what they are then. They steal the buttons and icons from the pp site, but they can't hide their scam addresses.