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The overall quality is such that it's upsetting the movement is not working. An amazingly well-made watch, well worth the cash, apart from the fact it can't tell the time I still stand by this watch as one of the best replicas out there. I hope my unfortunate movement episode does not put you off buying one. Sure, the movement is a bit fragile, but it appears to be the norm with 7750s. If you want a 7750 watch, this should still be at the top of the list.

2 quick answers: It's a screw-in crown and the bracelet uses pins.

This is a sad tale, so let's start with the important request before we go any further. I am looking for a jewellers in Paris that is happy to do work on replicas. If you can help me, please PM me. So, I won this raffle. Some of you may have seen the myriad of pictures I posted of my new IWC GST Chrono. You can't miss them, they're on all the boards. Precious Time sent the watch and it looked like a dream and worked well ... for a while. A few days into my owning it, I tried the Chrono and noticed it didn't fly back to 12. I tried it again to see if it would do it again and it advanced a little further away from 12. It looked like it may have been clipping the minute hand on the way back up. At this point, I took a couple of pictures and notified Precious Tim. Here's a pic that kinda shows what I thought was happening. Tim's response (no, I don't know his real name. Tim's a good one for me) was essentially that Asian chronos are fickle beasts and that I should not use it too much, which was not unexpected. He said that I should take it to a jewellers if it persists and he would cover the costs, which was nice. I tried the next day to run it so I could stop the hand at 12, and I missed, so I reset it and tried again. It didn't move. I thought the chrono hand had stopped moving, but that it was just being fickle. However, an hour later, I looked at the watch to see the time and realised the awful truth. The watch had stopped completely. I immediately mailed Precious Tim asking if a replacement was possible. He replied I should take it to a jeweller and he would cover costs. At this point a replacement would have been my ideal solution, but I understand that from his point of view, my taking it to a jewellers to get it looked at would be the better solution. The problem I have is that I live in Paris. Here, we have a large amount of authorised dealers and the largest ratio of aloof snobs to human beings on the planet. I'm sure I can find an old craftsman willing to do the work but at what I imagine is an exorbitant cost. Any help, even if it's a reputable European watch-repairer that accepts replicas and jiffy bags, would be much appreciated. I love the watch, as anyone reading my posts about it can imagine and don't want it to become a useless titanium reminder of why real watches cost so much. This post is in no way meant as a slight upon Precious Time's character as he's been a civilised gentleman throughout. It is not to be seen as a slur upon the IWC GST Chrono, either, as I believe we have to take slight risks in quality control as watches shipped in bubble-wrap and discrete jiffy bags are going to get stress-tested very early in their lives. I still rate this watch as one of the finest replicas out there. This is merely a tale of unfortunate circumstances and good luck turned bad.

The "Registered Users Only" .htaccess panel still comes up, but cancelling it lets you in.

I too hope this story will have a happy ending. As soon as I can find a jeweller in Paris that does repairs on Replicas, we will see. I'll write up a tale of woe in a minute. Let me just get a cuppa first.

/me is happy. Howay the tic!

Let's just say I'll be posting a long story soon. In other words, no. The words Stop and Watch do feature. A lot.

Aw, shucks. /me blushes Excellent photo, nice and warm, great brand of Cigar, but there's a big square Palbundi watchoid on it.

It's lighter than a Sub and it feels lighter. The strap is of very good quality, but it took me a few days to set the size right, as Titanium expands a little differently to steel, and the bracelet needs a lot more links on one side than the other, to balance it on the clasp sort of thing. Feel-wise, it's a thick, dumpy, squat bulldog of a watch. And I mean that in a good way. It's a lot smaller and thicker than I thought it could be. Aesthetically, it's near perfection.

Or the actual post number. It's in the top right. (He may have meant #22) Oh, and the law changed in the US in 2005, but this is Canada, so who knows what it's aboot, ey?

IWC GST Chrono - Titanium

Yeah, we need a Paris meet.

Where did you get the box and papers?

The bent second hand puts the point closer to the marks on the dial removing paralax inaccuracy on the sub-second chrono.

Vague much? There are rumours that one day it'll play standard h264 MPEG4 files or even, shock horror, DivX files. Neither of these are very likely, either. Why am I so doubting? I've got my PSP in my hand and I can't for the life of me see an output socket with enough bandwidth for video. No, USB cannot do it. No, neither can the audio port. No, 802.11b WiFi can't either. I'm going to have to call [censored] on this one. snif snif. Smells like ... [censored].

No.

You are not wrong.

I'm moving back to Glasgow end of 2006, beginning of 2007, for what it's worth.

ETA Submariner.

If I get a chance to take a pic this evening, sure.

Stainless Streel? Not at all, but it's not Ti, or if it is, it's a slightly different colour.

I'll start. Acrylic crystal?

I use a dual 2GHz G5 Macintosh and Mencoder (x264), but Handbrake is due out very soon with full AVC-Baseline MPEG4 Part 10 compatibulity using the Videolan x264 project as the encoder. Oh, sorry, Windows? Er, yeah, PSPVideo9.

28800vph

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Submariner-Genuine Replica $395.00 Jesus tetty-forking Christ! Four hundred dollars? No-one who has ever heard of a replica site like this one would ever even consider them. Genuine Replica? What's that about?