Pugwash

Sometimes, however, it's unavoidable. If you come across a new shop and you're wearing a rep, you'd better hope it's not something obvious or you're taking it off before you go in. The other thing is that some of us just forget whether or not we're wearing a rep or a gen when we walk through the door of the AD. Yes, sure, to deliberately flaunt a replica in an AD is possibly the dumbest thing you can do to our hobby, unless the guy there is a buddy of course, but accidentally wearing one into a shop happens.

It's a close analogy, but it's not 100% accurate. The result is the same, sure, but it's for different reasons. Currency has exceedingly specific laws all to itself, whereas we're merely talking about simple trademark law. Yes, of course the result is the same, apart from the prison sentence you get for counterfeit bills, and the length the police would go to trace the source. The lesson to be learned is ... um, damn, your mate has lost his watch. Maybe he should have told her it was a rep or that he thought it could have been or something. It's a little late to play "I should have" though, as it'll just cause arguments and won't get his watch back.

Exactly what I needed. Looks like I can't survive without a crystal press.

Damn, how civilised this place gets when it's full of women.

I followed his instructions and glued the [censored] (the bit of the hand that connects the hand to the stem) to the hand and then put it back on.

I imagine she took the watch in, asked how much to clean it up and the guy behind the counter said "You need a full service. That'll be $400 if you love him".

Pretty much everything apart from hand removers and a crystal press. I have everything required for motorcycle and computer maintenance in my kit and from craft to industrial tools in Mrs Pug's kit. I've got black sticks and access card tools, mini-drivers, a dremel or two ... and in Scotland, two industrial lathes, drill presses, band saws, a casting forge and a loom.

Yeah, now tell us exactly how to cleanly remove the bezel and crystal. Oh, and crown/tube.

Damn, that's exactly what Mrs Pugwash would do. Still, it means she is happy for me to have replicas as they're cheaper. As it is, she thinks I get more free watches than even you guys think I get. I must say, winning a POM or a raffle allows you to buy at least another couple of watches. "Did you win another one?" "Er, yes dear, sure. Of course I wouldn't spend any more money on another watch." I'm hoping she doesn't notice I've got 24 filled watchbox slots when she visits in a few weeks, or else I'm going to have to explain how there were dozens of Christmas raffles and I won them all.

You must have missed my Top Gear thread last weekend with the screengrab. Here it is again:

Yup, it's called "defending your trademark". What's worse is they may charge him for the time. Or, they could just keep it for the collection, like Matt Groening does with counterfeit Simpsons stuff.

Thanks for bumping this up.

If I had to guess, I'd say it came from an early 40-years replica.

Not bad for an ETA.

Nice stuff.

Duh, it's to keep him water resistant to 100M.

Coo, we appear to have been replying at the same time. Hmm, are you following me?

It's ok, I'll stop soon. I've nearly got this Wallpaper posting thing out of my system. Anyhoo, these are two shots of my IWC GST Chrono, originally from Precious Time and then ziggified and fitted with a genuine GST dial. It's possibly the centrepiece of my collection. Click here for 1280x960 version Click here for 1920x1200 HD version

This is where the Search feature comes in.

Mine are in the post. I've heard nothing but good, and my Fiddy has crappy screws or threads.

Did you miss the legend at the top of the Seiko chart? 5BAR=50M, 10BAR=100M ...

Yeah, these modern new houses can be a pain.

Didn't you get the cake? I paid for Tila Tequila to deliver a cake. Don't tell me she kept it for herself ...

I was about to post this very thing.

This contradicts Seiko, Casio and every other company's information, by the way. Seiko rate their watches at 100m (330 feet) or 10BAR as can be seen in this chart: Wikipedia, the unreliable Encyclopedia says the following, but you can probably go and edit it to make your argument correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch#Water_resistance