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And right back to you, looking forward to it. Just packing now

Welcome guys,

All I can say is welcome Mike. Enjoy the forum.

Hope that sorts it, do you have a reliable rep friendly watch smith then?

I will have a couple with me!

I think this will be a smaller GTG than usual but i am sure it will be entertaing as usaul, i will be bringing the two ingys that i did not have last time so that you can feel how close they are, and a couple of others that you may like to see.

yes i expect it would help, a dirty main spring barrel could reduce the PR

A good question. Vintage or new realy A new gen SD you could were as you want ed but would a gen vintage SD be as good, yes it has the looks but is it as water proof, resistant to scratches ect as the new one. Personaly i would go for the 1665, mod the CGs ect but just go for light mods that you can do, but spend the time on getting it waterproof

I would be interested in seeing that spread sheet, would be good to show the wife i think "see honey, I am not as bad as Stephane!" You have a point but this hobby is not just about virtual people, there are sone good friends of mine here now and i will be sharing a drink of three with some of them this weekend! Me i just convince my self i dont need it, i failed this week when i sent a PM for a 3rd Ingy but luckily it sold to some one else, I used to sell straps to fund the hobby but i have been busyer with other and biger things recently so that bit of cash i had from the straps is not there so it is hard to take money from other places to spend on a rep these days, i think what some one said above was the rightway, but a bit by every month and only buy a rep when you can afford it from what you have saved. or get a job in the spare time you may have and use this for you reps, but only that

I would not emerse a complete watch in an ultra sonic, not due to water or fluids but dure the the micro vibrationd that would shake the movemrnt inside, quartzs mabe, Mine came with intructions and that stated DO NOT place a mechanical watch in here! I clean cases and parts and bracelets in it and it is great when you have been waering a bracelet for a long time and decide to give it a clean and you can watch the dirt being vibrated out of it! Now a mate of mine put his wifes rep Daydate in his complete and he said it did not affect it! personaly, NO WAY

Too funny

Well there have been posts about a slap in the palm of the hand and so on but you can search that your self as i would not make a recomendation as some one will bable fish this and hit it with a hammer or something, not a major fault to recitfiy on its own if that is the problem if you know how to handle a hair spring, if that is the fualt?

Gen dial closer rep rep both creamy or ivory, it looks different in different light but mostly creamy rep and gen together

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Sounds like a hair spring problem, one coil touching another?

Not nice in my oppinion, Just does not have the class of the last aquatimer line up like the slevin

yes back ground noise does get picked up a bit but you can di it with the back off, infact i normaly do it with the back off dial up and turn down the sencitivity of the mic, once i get it good i then check with dial down, and then with a bit of abalening act, crown up and crown down, I was thinking of trying to get a virograph mic and see if that works as tht will have the clamp and also alow the watch to be positioned easyer

That looks to me like the crown its self has come apart, what you can see it the spring that compresses when you screw the crown in, the one that is internal in the crown, I would see if the dealer this came from would replace or fix this, it may be fixable, if you remove the case back and release the stem, pull it out with tweasers, unscrew it fron the part of the crown that is still attached and then glue the two parts back together, some loctite 406 would do the job but you will have to ensure that NO glue gets inside where that spring is or on that spring other wise you will end up with a solid crown and not a spring loaded one that alows you to push the stem in after setting and then screw down. edited your photo here

well i have never seen a snow white gen or rep, mine is also a creamy ivory colour and so was the gen that convinced me to buy it!

Not sure who has the best these days, i belive Silix was the best with the right date window but that was over a year ago, i had a good look at ine in brussels last year and it is a very nice watch, a little more dressy than and ingy but you can see similar designs there, as they were designed by the same person gerald Genta

There was a seller on Repgeek, birdkeeper i think it was who had them a few days ago but would not sell the UTC on its own. The evo it was on was a quartz so it was cheepish

Good Post Spidey, shows well both sieds of the story.

Not my style either, but i am impressed with what they have done with it all, now if they can print a date wheel for that i never want to have to hear a complaint about a date wheel again, we know they can do it !

I bet a lot of people are confused by this, it took me a moment to read it, and it is just as confusing when you read it in english, but i wonder how many people have sent

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