daanv

thx for the intel. so if i set aside the price of a rep every month i'll have a secondhand gen in ... 50 months

any good reps of this? i can only seem to find a grey version with rubber bracelet?

oh thanks! i didn't realise the RO came in chrono, i thought only ROO's were chrono i'm such a noob! great looking watch though!

It's a chrono, i presume, but the pushers seem to be ss and not black rubber? are there any reps like this? i'm not a huge fan of the rubber pushers!

better picture

I just received a bezel from watchmaterial for a submariner, with part number INSSUB8001366 INSERT FIT RLX 315168001, and even though the shape of the bezel looks great compared to gen, the pearl seems to me to be alot "darker" than my old noobmariner pearl and the gen pearl. It's more of a light grey than really white, more like the markers on the bezel in terms of color. Is this common for watchmaterial pearls or did I get a bad one and should I contact them? bad picture but you can sort of tell what I'm talking about. There also appears to be some dirt in there in the center, like a dark smudge or something?

didn't have to bend them after all, just give it a little extra push with the sharp end of my springbar removal tool and they snapped right in place (and I don't think they were supposed to be the bended ones, because they wouldn't fit the strap if they had to be bent)

Hi! I bought an SMP lately from Stan over at repgeek, and one of the springbars broke so I went to a watchsmith to get some new ones. I noticed the ones it came with were heavilly bent, so i figured I might just replace the entire thing. I did however notice that the new springs wouldn't snap in place, so the old ones were probably bent for a reason. As it seems like a huge waste to bend these new ones, does anyone know how to make it work? anyone have any experience with this? Daan

a replica watch on EBAY? that is unheard of! /shocked (edit: no idea weither or not it's a rap, though, lol)

any sources for an aftermarket dial? or do they have the same bad lume as most rep dials?

Just got it in the mail! it's really nice! great build quality, could use a bezel swap though, the pearl isn't that accurate but at least it doesn't look out of place. great lume on the hands!! still don't have my iphone so pics will have to wait

bi-directional rotation on the bezel? how can that be on a divers watch?

Will do, I hope I have my iPhone 3Gs by then (grrrr, long list of people who ordered it and waaaay too little available in my stupid little country) so the pics would be of decent quality.

student (law school)

Probably an incredibly stupid newbie question: but do all quartz movements tick once per second or are there also "sweeping" quartz movements?