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What is the basic movement? That the soprod module is sat on?

Bob some people that that happens any way. These are the same people that said my gen 1680 was not real as the seconds hand was not perfectly smooth and had tiny ticks

You can buy a21j movements that are Swiss made as well

Apparently the ridges are caused by an iron difficiency, but i have been eating iron filings for years now but it has not got any better

To be honest i have never heard of Rolex producing in the far east, Hublot on the other hand!!!!!!

Right this is a blue peter moment (Please ecuse the crappy iphone pics) Thanks to Rolojack i can show you all how to make a vintage silver flat 3 open 6&9 DWO I took a screen shot of his image in the DWO thread converted it to black and white in word and resized it. This needs nothing more than A decent inkjet printer Some self adhesive clear lables your old metal DWOs a bit of scotch bright a sharp craft knife (please get help from grown ups when cutting) Nail varnish remover or isopopenol alcohol A sunday morning with out the shakes Right First get all your old DWOs that are made of metal and a couple of date wheels for 2836/46 and chuck them in alcohol or nail varnish remover and remove all the old printing (this will save microns of clearance space) Once it is all clean take your scotch brite and brush the overlay blank you should end up with some thing like this Now we cut out one of our preprinted clear adhesive over lays and stick it as central as you can to the blank The get an adult to cut away the excess and you will be let with what we want a brushed silver flat 3, open 6&9 overlay now you may have dont it already but remove all the printing and ink from the date wheel And fit it to your movement Next we need some thing to attach the DWO to the DW, i like using clear nail varnish as it sets slowly and can be revoved easily, Dial dots are also good but think about clearance if you go this route Tiny dabs are all you need, Now add the DWO over the top lining the center of one number with the stem Fit you dial and check the positioning of all numbers over (wind the watch forwards and get the date to change as you got through 12am rather t6han jjust click forward in the date set position) there will be slight variation Adjust if nesesary and try again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again untill you are happy two slightly better pictures As we can see here the 20s need to move over to the right a touch, not sure if roloJack could do that??? as the rest are good The printing is better than the pictures actualy show and as good as my MBW DWO in my great white but not as perfect as my gen (The one above was a lower print quality than the one under the rail dial) I think we are moving in the right direction I think if i vectorised the image it would be better, can some one here do that? Many thanks to Rolojack for creating the image in the first place (let me know if you want a few of these) Do not all PM me asking me to make you one as i only have 3 blanks. Platinum members for a small donation to the postage can have the stickers for free, but it would be better if it was vectorised and prfesionaly printed. Thank you for reading and now your thoughts please as to the positioning, font size, and boldness

As far as i know the TC tube is gen size any way and even takes a gen crown but it is 3 x .35mm

Well what do you know, $60 bucks saved,

Just the way i said??

There should be no lume on the dial (i think) or have i got my models mixed up The reason i said it is i worked on one of them a while ago, gen hands ect and the guy said make sure the lume on the dial matches the gen hands, well i looked at the rep dial and there was no lume at all just the marker pollished on the sides and brushed on top, so i went to an AD to look at the gen and sure enough the gen was the same, no lume,

but it is a rep,

Your not buying the watch though you are buying the name, are levi's better made than a no name pair of jeans? may be just a little but not to the price difference but people wear levi's for the name

Mate respect http://www.raspberryrippleracing.com I know Billy, or i did a long time ago we were in Bosnia together a short while I am going to send you a PM later about some thing

Welcome back mate!

No problems we are here to help, all this info for free

Has that got gen like lume on the dial? Nice I assume the Jeweler was not and AD, but if you learn how to do it your self you will save a fortune with all the watches you will eventualy have

The Deployant may just need a bit of tweeking if the curve on the thinner folding bit is not enough it will not lock same it it is too curved, you can do it with your fingers, it does not need much either way but they can be made to work well (if it is not broken, post a pic and i can tell you)

If they were cheeper then they would not be a luxury but i feel your pain, waiting for a parcel is hard work

Thanks If any one suspects a member may be using two IDs or is a scammer in the making them let us know.

if you knew this why did you not tell a mod or Admin?

see also here http://www.rwg.cc/topic/150630-member-yonatanezo-possible-scammer-here/

I will confirm that this appears to have taken place twice, now. once with the yonatan.ezo and once with the vintage israel name. sellers beware. See also here

I don't pull threads they are here for all to read and decide If they want to deal with people but as you were both warned and both decided to carry on they you may as well find another playground for a couple of weeks

I don't like having to repeat my self

I would not trade a magical white dog turd* for that *they used to be common in uk in the 70s when I was a kid And if you still don't know read "Niels book of the dead