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I presume you missed the link between global warming and extreme winters in school. It's why they refer to it as "climate change" now.

There are tales of one poor member slicing chunks out of his fingers removing the Noobmariner bezel. Not for the feint-hearted.

I don't think people have twigged that this isn't a rep.

Er ... Josh gets a runner in Bangkok to drop-ship them. He's paying the same wholesale price as TTK, making his MBKs $80 more expensive. The MBK trader that gets these made will sell everyone he gets, there's no need for him to drop his prices.

An iPhone skin.

I point the honourable lady to her Jewish Men imparting knowledge to Chinese Women statement.They have to start somewhere and that means opening design schools. The short-cut is to hire experienced designers and seeing as we've already established they have no history of this, where would you suggest they get it? Spend generations learning from scratch or taking a short cut by hiring westerners? I am arrogant. I get it from being right almost all of the time.

You say that as if that's what they should be doing. How do you know that Chinese industry isn't quite happy to be the world's factory? If the Chinese really wanted to compete, they could do so exceedingly easy: hire a western industrial design team (poach some seriously respected designers with godlike salaries) and just take over, market segment by market segment. Refuse to make goods for foreign companies or companies without Chinese part-ownership. It really is that easy and the fact they haven't done it shows that they have no ambitions to really beat us at our own game. They have their own game and serving their internal market seems to have more value to them than working for export. It seems the counterfeit market is more of an afterthought. And yes, intellectual property law is in a complete mess and I'm not sure LV should have lost this one. We're morally and ethically wrong to collect counterfeit goods and we need to remember that. We are helping organised crime (no, not terrorism) and we are taking money out of the pockets of real live people in the western world. Don't hide behind moral indignation of corporate culture. We're not Robin Hood and the sooner we disabuse ourselves of that notion the better.

Great review! I think I like this one. Is it 22mm straps?

I see her oscillating left and right. Hmm, now she's clockwise. Blink. Anti-clockwise. Seems to be random, depending on when the rotation starts for me.

I use an awl to remove springbars in metal bracelets. It's remarkably easy.

The same can be said about cockflapping English. Just because the turdwrangling filter has a list of labkebab words as loose as a bag of slugs, it doesn't mean that you can't use terms like uphill gardener, beef curtains or wizards sleeve.

If you're only after one Panerai, you need something pretty generic and iconic. The 111 (h or e, doesn't matter) is ideal, as is the 183, depending on which style you like.

To be a little observant, he said "Jeweller" not "Authorised Dealer". We have members here who work in watch retail/repair, are they banned from showing themselves their watches or wearing them to work? If the jeweller were an AD, he'd have spotted it as a rep.

The replica case should fit the gen movement/dial. However, the real test will be if the genuine crystal could be moved to the rep case. I suspect it would.

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Like all of them. Come on Hatton, ya Manc!

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Chat-up line: Hey babe, how do you like your eggs in the morning? Retort: Unfertilised.

Essentially, there are two 'accurate' Navitimers: the 21,600vph one and the 28,800vph one. The 21k has a better slide rule but worse movement and the 28k one has a worse slide-rule and a better movement. Both of them suffer from a recessed date and neither has an accurate datewheel. Here's my 28k version:

See? It's not like I make this stuff up. :laugh:

I wouldn't go that far. :happy:

Ah, I think you missed my point. :-) The Zigmeister has supported this community more than any single other member. This is why he's treated so well. He's the man that worked out why the seconds-at-6 mod on the Asian 7750 was dodgy. He was the man that told us how to spot Asian Unitas vs Swiss Unitas movements. He was the man that showed us why the 21,600 7750 was rubbish and why the 28,800 7750 was excellent. He was the man that showed us that the second-hand on a chronograph sometimes doesn't return because the hand isn't properly secured to the tube. He was the man that showed us what a cannon pinnion was. That's just what I remembered off the top of my head. There's more.

There are no Swiss-made replicas. End of discussion. Now, what's the small hand in the lower subdial doing? It's not supposed to do that.

The Zigmeister has a job. Modding/servicing is a hobby he makes money out of on the side. If we were to go away tomorrow, The Zigmeister would still have enough trade to keep him going into 2009. ... and maybe you've not seen the amount of stuff The Zigmeister gave away for free. The posts explaining how all the movements worked, the tutorials, the details. If it weren't for The Zigmeister, I would never have learned what I have learned. There would be no ETA 7750 datewheel tutorial, there would be no knowledge base. To imply The Zigmeister is rude by leaving is a slight oversight on your part. It's like a finger pointing at the moon, etc.

LV is part of LVMH. They have considerably more clout than Rolex. They are the ones that lobbied the French Government to make it illegal to own counterfeit goods. This is who LVMH owns: