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Good luck with that. You see two identical looking watches and one is $300, the other is $500 and you're told they're both identical inside but one's been oiled. Would you pay the $500? Most customers would pay the $300 so the dealers aim for that.

Looks like 564 to me.

You should see the rest of Enzo's franks.

Sure, why not. Just pretend the watch is delivered unfinished and you have to pay a bit more to finish it, unless you don't care. Correct.

I don't see how this can work. The issue with the movement is that it's shipped dry or badly lubed. There's no way without opening it of telling if it's well prepped or badly prepped, and prepping it badly is cheaper. If you want a working 7750 without issues, it's dead easy: Buy your favourite chrono and pay the extra to have it serviced. If you're not prepared to pay the extra, you'd not be prepared to pay the premium demanded by the dealer for a guaranteed pre-serviced movement.

Ok, I'll try spending a bit more time here reading then. If you manage to have a popular uprising, and it can happen, and your boycot works, what do you think will happen? Will they just stop making chronograph replicas altogether or will they start putting Quartz in the next gen of SuperReps?

I'll kick you in the Klink if you're not careful.

Can I say something?

He used a SONY DSC-T9, f3.5 at 1/250 sec.

No it isn't. If it were, we'd have stopped buying them.

I like it. I too got a Tissot auto on Ebay, but it was considerably cheaper than yours, what with it being less robust and having a crappy strap. ps. Damned fine watch you have there.

Problems occur when they move the second-hand.

Underground Distribution? It's called EMS. I'm with Longshot on this one. I want to know where the market is. I still believe the forums are a large part of business for the dealers, if through nothing but credibility.

Um, huh? The quality in Thailand and China isn't as consistent as here? Where do our reps come from again? If you know where to go in Thailand and China, you'll get the best reps possible, because that's where our dealers get them. Sure, because the cheap crap is made there too, you'll get that by the bucket too. The grading system is, as Longshot mentioned, a myth, just like Italian 31j Rolex replicas.

I do, often. Er, I mean ... yeah, damned weird.

Every time you think you're getting a good deal, or something for free, you're not the customer; you're the product. We help the rep-makers get their watches more accurate, and they throw us a bone every now and then. ps. Usil, your PMs are full.

Precisely. People in the urban areas of the far east like to display their apparent wealth. These are the people that buy gaudy gold watches and pay ridiculous import duty on a Mercedes while living in a tiny flat because the show of wealth is more important than being wealthy. Check out the number of Japanese magazines about high-end watches, for instance.

No, but they all feel fine and are cheap enough to replace wholesale.

Generic Asian movements. My first Sub has one of those and it's been running a year now. They're not Swiss quality, but they work.

Brilliant question. ps. Yes, I believe they are.

Then don't believe it. It's a joke! Eddie hasn't stolen your money. If you've read any of the millions of "Where's eddie" posts, you'll see in every one, someone will tell you he's changed name and is catching up to the backlog.

In france they say, with a thick French accent "No zub in job"

This is due to a one-way winding gear. When it's going the other way, all it does is annoy the bearings. Are Valgranges two-way?