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That's what I thought, just your regular day at the location - improvise! Andy - I agree with you I would not like to wear an ill fitting strap.

I like the nylon straps also, they wear nice and lite in the summer. But why the obsession of buying them too small? The reason it was to small in the movie was probably just that they did not have a fitting one... They probably never thought anyone would ever notice!

It is a hoax, but nicely done video

Russian steel today with generic oyster bracelet. The sound this ETA 7734 copy movement makes is like Hammer and sichel...

Mine is an older model though - not with the El Primo movement but a 17J. The date on it is 8/ 71

When I first saw this watch it was just a black glob. Should have taken a picture right away. But here are the parts after I cleaned the case and still a little gunk on some parts. Looked like it came from a tarpit. I will post some pics when its ready! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Added 6/12: This is the movement after being cleaned and lubed. I am surprised it ticks at 36k, I had thought the 17 jewel one would be slower? Does anyone know about this? Beat rates of differnt Zenith movements? And look at the straight line on my tester without even adjusting...

That is a good sales trick Nanuq Nice watch!

Have you tried ND Trading they have some nice third party cases.

Never use FedEx for rep watches - ever!!! Airmail, Airmail and Airmail...

I was just in Germany and there too about $9 a gallon, but its not only the big cars here in the US, we also have to drive so much more here. Everything is build around cars. In Europe you can very well get around most cities without a car and a lot of places you can just walk, plus PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION is at least available in a clean and efficient form!!

I want one too, just like this - my dream watch! :cloud9:

Just came across this thread - T17 is flat top, T19 is domed

I would suggest to use only distilled water, because if you do get some water in it will just evaporate with a hair dryer. The minerals in regular water will stay in the watch. Just my 2 cents worth...

I have the same one from WBK also and its my favorite Omega watch. It is the watch I wear when I go on a trip - somehow fits. I only wish someone would make a better bracelet for them. I used to own the gen and the bracelet has many more parts and feels much sleeker on your skin. It is also the biggest giveaway that it is a rep.. Wear it well

Yeah - I would also get a couple of them in 20 mm

Could only be a hobby watchsmith - with the strict controls of members of the watch guild nobody in their right mind would risk losing their business fixing reps. A friend of mine has a small custom made jewelry store in Germany, no watches at all and he said how recently more and more people come in and ask if he can shorten a bracelet on their Rolex or Omega. When he asks why they don't go to a Watch Store they just shrug and smile.. He says 'ah its that kind of watch' and he is helping them and puts a piggy bank there for a donation to his kids. That is one way of dealing with it. Recently he even made a screw in pin for a Rolex rep bracelet that the guy lost from scratch. That took him several hours and he got a generous 5 Euro donation. People just don't know how long stuff like that takes and don't want to pay. I mean really - it s cheaper to buy another rep in most cases.

Thanks for your comments Urabus and you made some good points with the black versus silver hands etc. (too bad they are not black) So I am with you on the design flaws. Even though - I think the bezel insert does not really look cheaper then the black regular ones that are - lets face it: just cheap aluminum with a little black paint on it. But - is accuracy of a phantasie watch not an oxymoron - indeed? I might just buy this thing, just to see the reaction that people will have to it.

Well I just like ceramic watches - some people like bling, Freeman I would only get a watch like this if it was real ceramic, not painted or plastic. Already have the J12. Besides being a fantasy model - would it be different if this was in black ceramic? Just curious if the white look is what is turning people off. ??

Well excuse me guys - but not too long ago somebody either here or on Repgeek posted a computer generated picture of a white Explorer II in just this white look. Everybody went "wow - that looks cool". Too bad I can't find that post - it was done by one of the real photo shop geeks here... Edit: Well I think I found it, but it is not quite as white as I remember: Now guys... this is ICE COOL! By-Tor But now here I saw a real picture of an existing watch just like it and it is: 'yuk!'??

Has anybody seen this model? It looks like ceramic on the picture, even the thick bracelet pins like on the Chanel J12. CN auto mvmnt. It might be a fantasy model, but it sure looks great.

The highlighted sentence above is exactly why I do not like to send reps abroad. If the risk is with the buyer then there is no 'negotiate a settlement'. But if something really dissapears this sentence will ALWAYS come up and then there are quarrels and paypal problems. How could I be really assured that once I send out the watch there will be no trouble with the buyer if the watch really gets caught or simply does not get there?

Maybe it did not actually lose 97 minutes, but just stopped working because you had not moved enough to charge it

So far every time I offered to send a watch to EU at the buyers risk with customs I never heard back from the buyer. I would never put my real address on a package sending a rep across international borders. Somebody in China can do that but not from the US. Being myself from Germany I know that every time I send perfectly legit items to my family they have to go to the customs office... Now - why do I not want to send outside CONUS ???

Same concern as me. Does anybody have experience what airport customs is like and what the laws regarding wearing reps are like in Japan?

I just found this thread and have a question or two about Japan also. My wife and me want to move to her mother in Japan for a year or 2. So I was wondering should I leave all my rep watches in America because customs is thorough or is it ok to bring a few (3 or 4 favorites) with me? Is it against the law to own a rep watch in Japan? Just trying not to get in trouble, but it would be hard not to see my watches for so long>