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But it was pure luck i think it is the only photo i am proud of, Oh and we have a fundament!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice new pics O, i like the close up on the dial from 6 it looks very woren and used just like it should be. My best ever photo i think, taken with a Sony Ericsson Phone

Very nice indeed, but i could echo Freddy that the lume looks shiny but i like the watch lots,

I think he us taking a day off There is a post about it

I have seen the finish and i have done it my self, but you will find that most reps are done with heat or chemicals as well such as blueing salts

More than likly it needs a service and regulating

looking good TJ

pics of the tudor?

some times days go like that TJ

Both have 702s Both have silver date wheels 1 Has a service crystal, and i would say has been to an RSC 2 has an original Top hat If you want a safe queen get 2 if you want a watch to wear every day get 1

If you are going for all orginal then if the second is all original then factor in the price of a service with Ziggy if you can because that missing lume from the hands has gone somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF I have no idea how that could happen If you had dropped it hard enough then maybe but there would be more to see than just the hand being bent if you had dropped it that hard.

First one I would say the second is more expencive

Frankt, it takes time to establish if some one is runnng a for profit operation, we dont know what price they pay for the parts. Imagine you are new and buy some parts to build a franken, but the sell who ever they may be rips you off but you dont know it, then you sell the piece on or try to at the price you paid for it which in the sales post may look expencive to some of the members and staff here, Do we act straight away and treat them as a dealer or do we build up evidence before acting.

Non taken mate. I fully appreciate the difference a good photo can take. (I just wish I could take them) In fact I have a good example that I will dig out later

Thanks Olly but there were just iphone pics

Ok so i never said i could take pictures, But as Whatever123 lives near me guesg what he just inadvertantly volenteered to do with his new camera;) and skills i never knew he had, nice pics. I may have to get one of these babys printed for prosperity. Oh Olly, the boden platte is being started this friday, stand by for invite for the Rickfest invite in a couple of months if not sooner.

Optical ilusion then, I think exagerated like in the third pic i quoted as it is so close in the forward edge looks so much taller than the sides

Mellons is your crystal fitted flush and level or is it an optical illusion caused by the shape of the plexy?

I did have one on the desk a while ago and i noticed no differences save decoration from a normal ETA

Ziggy there was also the marketing angle used here, By stating OEM he was implying made by panerai and when questioned what he ment by OEM he replyed panerai, not as the case would be, ETA, as we all know that panerai do not make there own going trains and springs or a lot else on the unitas based movement other than bridges and decoration. He would show a packet marked "panerai" with some screws in it and then claim just about all bar the base plate to have come from panerai, Note, Rockarep may well have paid for all the spares direct from Panerai, but only if he was real stupid as panerai will just repackage ETA parts and triple the price on 80% of the movement parts

Wher did you hear that from??????????????????????

Today still the rail dial

Either the hand touching the crystal or dirt on the teeth of the seconds wheel

TC hands are very close to service replacement hands very close indeed