JWR

I agree with pugwash... the slightly larger minute and hour hands also look nice, i think.

Ugly too.

How much does this crap retail for?

red dealer watch was speedmaster shumacher edition.

From whom is it $100 less??

So was Precious Time's price comparable to the cartel?

Can I pick 'em or can I pick 'em?

Evidently.

grr...

I may revert to my original plan for waiting for Jay to get this one... more time to decide.

Oh.

My.

God.

I was so set on the blue/blue combo.

This is outrageously good looking.

I'll be posting a full barrage of white-on-brown photos very soon.

Ooh, exotic. Pugwash's take on East meets West?

All over it, then.

I wonder if i'll ever wear it on a bracelet...

I like you better than I like pugwash now.

I'm half considering snagging what seems to be a rep deployant clasp on ebay... they're about $20...

oh well... great minds can't always think alike...

Hope one of those is blue... 'cause then you can tell me if it matches the dial nicely!

Curious if it's worth bothering to get the Steelfish leather strap and buckle, or if they're the typical crap...

The buckle looks sort of flimsy, any pictures of how it compares to the real deal?

They have. See The Zigmeister's review of it ...

Coupled with the Valgranges copy in TTK's Chopard GTXL, we're in for a great run of Chinese movements, I reckon.

The reason they didn't show up before is that everyone wanted ETAs in quantity. Now that option is disappearing, the good clones are getting ramped up, possibly even from the same assembly lines ebauching the 2836/24 today.

Are we sure that it's a Valgranges copy, rotor shape aside?

It looks an awful lot like the rotor bearing assembly from several seagull models...

super avenger, professional I bracelet

what really shocks me about this picture is how inaccurate the rep case and bracelet is...

I have both the original crown from a 222 and a palp crown (which you need to use a stem extender, as it doesn't fit the 222 out of the box)...

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I think the fact that the BCE and Big Bang and steelfish had been seen so long ago that it makes them seem like they've been really slow to come out...

Also none of the new Honpo releases have come in...

yeah, i did. so many more minute improvements have been made and yet the damn lever still can't get fixed? come on.

I am still curious why all luminor-cased PAMs (that don't use the 1950 style case) seem to have crooked crowns.

I'm pretty sure that every PAM from the factory comes with a crown/cg combination that yields a crown thats canted inwards on the 'top' - the 12 side of the case....

It's funny to see that we can get such precision workmanship on things like the Big Bang etc. but can't get a CG/crown that lies straight...

How's the WR on these suckers?

You could most likely do it yourself with a kitchen scrub pad or steel wool...

what's this about a new overseas??

it's just a stick on plate it looks like