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Congrats on a lovely watch. That's one heck of a wait! The Tudor BB is a beauty; I'm sure you're going to be really happy with it.

Damn. I started googling "bronze watch" and now I'm totally hooked. I have the bronze bug. That heroic has above has officially converted me.

Welcome from the USA. There are some amazing watches to be had, and in the rep world, fortune favors the well researched. It sounds like you've already done quite a bit of reading. Glad to have you here!

Wow. What a lousy thing to have happen. I hope you get lucky and the bonehead tries to pass a stolen rep as a gen to an undercover cop.

You've come to the right place. It will probably take you a few hours of research to figure out whrich rep to get, where to find it, and how to buy it, but it will be time well spent. A great place to start is the post "edges guide to replica forums", which is pinned at the top of the general discussion forum. This will cover the basics for you and help you navigate the complex world of rep watches. Happy Hunting!

Great watch. The bronze is growing on me more and more. Enjoy!

Pretty cool. You've got some one-of-a-kind watches there. Let's here some details about the build!

Looks great. The bronze is starting to appeal to me the more I see them. Congrats on a great watch!

Beautiful watches. That lume burns like a torch! I think that just may be the perfect excuse for me to buy one. "It was a little expensive honey, but I finally found the perfect reading light. I only bought so I wouldn't disturb you when I read in bed..."

That's good to here. I've been asking around elsewhere and lots of others folks have chimed in that the LMPO lume is first rate. Thanks for the feedback.

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Great looking watch and another nice bit of work by Matt. Enjoy it!

I'm glad to hear the lume is up to snuff. I was really hoping to avoid having to send it out for lume work. It sounds like that won't be an issue!

What's your scratch removal trick? I'm a scratch magnet myself!

Glad to have you aboard. I hope your first rep gets shipped quickly. The wait drove me nuts on my first rep; it's like waiting for Christmas!

Welcome to the forum. We're glad to have you. It sounds like you are already off to a grear start! Good luck with the sub.

I'm not looking forward to resizing the bracelets, but I guess it's a small price to pay for a rep this good. One thing I haven't heard much about is the lume. Did they use the good stuff or is this just average quality rep lume?

@gran: I saw the pics of your beat down PO in the wristcheck thread. Looks like you've put it through its paces! I noticed that the lume is really white. How old is it and what version is it? The lume on my POrikka has always been yellowish, and it's always annoyed the heck out of me.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm guessing that you gents are right; 80% of the visible damage is just AR scratches. Seems like if your going to do single AR on sapphire, it should be on the inside for that reason. I'm going to give it a try tomorrow. Thanks gentlemen!

My second daily beater; a 2010 POrikka. This poor old dog takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Still running +/- 10 secs per day somehow!

Below is a pic of my scratched up POrikka, that I bought back in 2010 when Narikka was the first to get the v4 Omega PO's. This watch has been my daily beater for 4 years and it shows. The worst injury is the badly scratched crystal. On the one hand, I'm thinking of just buying a LMPO to replace it, but I'm unfortunately a sentimental kind of guy. It still keeps perfect time, and I'd like to fix it if I can. One obvious solution is to get a new crystal, and maybe swap out the dial while I'm at it. That seems like it could be a few weeks of frustration finding a crystal that fits correctly. I want to be able to swim with this watch when I'm done messing with it. One thing that I was wondering about was whether I could polish the scratches away by putting it in a watch vice and using some 3000 grit on a small buffing wheel. Any thoughts on how I can rehab this old dog?

Fantastic buiild and a wonderful write-up. It's posts like this that keep me coming back to RWG!

Good to know. Thanks for posting!

As for version numbers, reps generally work like software. The newer the version, generally the better the rep. Not always the case of course, sometimes the older versions are better than the newer version. It's a good idea to do some real research on the model you want to buy using the search function. For most watches, you'll be able to find in depth reviews that compare the relative merits of the version. V1 may have great crownguards but lousy lume, v2 might have lousy crownguards but great lume (speaking generally/hypothetically here, not about the graham). Don't rely overly on the rep dealer "specs", they're generally accurate, but there is a whole lot of puffery. Find a review of the watch version you're looking for done by a veteran member; that's where the best info generally comes from. As far as movements go, that's a whole topic unto itself. In fact, there are probably hundreds of threads devoted to that question right here on the forum. Many watches have a cheap asian 21j movement. I generally avoid these because they're a bit unreliable, and when they die, it's not possible to transplant a genuine ETA (same movement most gen makers like Omega and Breitling use). Higher up the food chain you have asian built replicas of ETA movements. These vary widely in quality and although somewhat unreliable, have served me pretty well over the years. I have asian 7750 movements (chrono movement) that have lasted beautifully and kept great time for 4 years with no trouble. The nice thing about getting an asian ETA is that the are much cheaper (generally $100-$150), and if they die, you can buy a gen movt on the internet, and do a movement swap with a genuine swiss ETA which will last you a lifetime. At the top of the food chain are the movements listed as "genuine ETA" by the rep dealers. This adds $100 - $150 more to the cost of the rep. The trouble is, there isn't really a way of knowing whether you're getting a genuine ETA. Sometimes you do, but very often it's a genuine ETA that's be refurbished by a chinese factory. That's the 30 second overview. I hope it was moderately helpful. The best advice I can give you is that the search function will become your best friend if you want to buy a great rep. Read "edges guide to replica forums" and a couple of the other posts that are "pinned" at the top of the general discussion forums. It takes a lot of work and research to get up to speed in the Rep world. But that's half the fun! Best of luck.

@dude: That IWC looks classy as hell. If I wasn't leery about the seconds at 6 issue, I'd have snapped one of these up years ago. Has it ever given you any trouble?