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...or read the posts either, eh? Actually it's quite an occupational hazard....it's called empathy fatigue.....commonly misinterpreted as hostility.....especially common when you deal with certain types who want all the answers and remain difficult despite your best intentions to help them. Ringing any bells? Enough jousting, as I said to Andrew, let's wait and see what the next few weeks bring.

I'd take your own advice about re-reading the thread if I were you before you embarrass yourself further. Not to mention I already answered your question in post no.31 of this thread as to whether I had handled the gen - I posted a link to the earlier thread. Really, do I have to repeat myself now??? *sigh* But hey, you go carry on 'demanding' qualified opinions all you like.

Not sure what you're getting all worked up about. As for a watch that no-one has seen, well the photos Josh posted are very real, no "guess" work involved - they show a prototype that appear to have the same flaws we saw, discussed, and that which appeared on the production version of the V1 SS. So people are perfectly within their rights to "speculate" all they want. If you don't like it, don't read this thread.

You could well be right there. Shifted into different marketplace.

Not really interested in getting into a dealer discussion here, but.... Of course he has a 'say' but he didn't do a perfect job with the V1 did he? Obviously a gap in the chain. The half-lume dot for example. And who "commissioned" the V2 then? Interesting that as soon as Angus announced and started selling this improved version, Josh started to offer it too. Jumped ship as it were from a wholesaler point of view. Almost certainly committed to selling x number of V1s but I imagine the V1's sales (aside from the remorseful early adopters) have been poor given the V2's launch. The BS preview pics on Josh's site looked exactly like the flawed V1 with a dodgy coating - suspect that given the feedback from the V1 SS and no improvement here shown with the BS prototype, he's pulled the pics until the issues have been sorted out - standard PR issues management. Or possibly aborted the project, who knows, let's wait and see. My point was just about semantics, that's all, didn't intend to mean otherwise. Apologies.

Yep, but those are the usual factory pics - and as usual, they're crap.

Same here, not a fan at all of the 'swiss cheese' look. The clasp is very nice though, reminds me of the older type Omega two-part clasp for rubber strap. One question though, I thought the gen Racer strap came in 24mm only - have you squeezed it into those 22mm lugs, or is there now a 22 version?

Not sure why you're peddling this line Andreww, as it just confuses newcomers. What you mean is that Josh may have gone back to the factory/maker and pointed out flaws/suggested improvements based on comments. He's simply a wholesaler, not really involved in production as such. However I think it's more likely he knows the other factory is working on a (so-called) V2 BS, and seeing as how he got badly burned on the V1 SS last time out, he's not stocking/offering the V1 BS.

No but it's doing a decent job of hiding your beer gut

Spot Freddy

Trust me Frederico, you could wait a decade and still preempt me with this seller I have little doubt you will have your pants pulled down, metaphorically speaking - the 6542 in that pic is a gen, absolutely no doubt whatsoever. I'd bet Nanuq's rusted junkyard of a vintage collection on it.

You know the answer here Freddy, if it looks too good to be true, that's because it is. I'll take a couple of those 6542s mind

Well they have the exact specs and will be able to colour match, so let's wait and see eh?

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=78589 p.s. no rep from either maker is released at time of writing, so no comparison to be made as yet

Yes.

5......4......3......

Any chance of some pics "in the wild"? Also how's the PVD coating holding up scratch-wise?

JohnG, I wish you luck dealing with your "issues" but please try to refrain from inflicting them upon us. Thanks.

Gotta love this story. So what, they faked it. Looked good. No harm done. Here's what you can expect from London 2012...

Heh heh, no they're not actually, they're from flickr! Surprised no-one recognised the stadium - Palp would be so disappointed in you all M, what do you think of the TAG Heuer Meridiist?

Ha, it's funny because that was my concern, but having both in the flesh they are VERY different watches, hard to explain exactly - BS is made for rubber and TCA is made for leather. I'm thinking about getting the V2 SS edition to complete the 'holy trinity' but not sure - at least it doubles as an emergency shaving mirror

Clear there's some dodgy photo-processing here, but I suspect this is created from pics not a genuine - the case colour is wrong, too dark, too shiny. The DLC process itself isn't particularly difficult or expensive but requires lots of tweaking to get uniform colour I'm told. The caseback is also shitty, around the LE markings as Andrew has already shown (no red number in serial though mate - that's just a caseback sticker in red ). There is indeed a V2 Skyland Black Steel in the works - think it's safe to say which version most will plump for

Arrghh, my eyes...MY EYES!!! Did you always want be a pimp then?