tr4driver

Fleed, This is a beautiful watch, but one thing I don't understand is why everyone wants to mar the plexiglas crystals on their vintage watches. Polishing the crystal is very easy, and I keep the plexiglas crystals nicely polished on my genuine vintage watches regardless of how badly the cases get nicked/scratched up or how much patina the dials have. Again, beautiful watch. I'd love to have one some day.

The end-links actually look fine. Gold on the edges. This is the wrapped bracelet.

It's not perfect, but I'm happy with it.

Yep... been keeping an eye on the trade forum. Just never see a TT model come up.

Thanks everyone. I've contacted BK, but he's not taking any new orders right now.

Greetings... I'm looking for a decent TT sub, and found this one at Puretime: http://www.puretimewatch.com/index.php?productID=279 I am planning to go with the wrapped option on the bracelet. Anyone have any additional knowledge of this watch? Glaring issues, etc.? Thanks!

Yep, I believe all the 1665's had a bi-directional bezel.

The bezel is supposed to be bi-directional (same as genuine). I'm no sure you can tighten it since it is not constructed like the genuine (it uses a bent wire instead of the flat washer for tension). When I took mine apart, I had to remove the crystal retaining ring bezel insert to get the thing all seated back down properly, then reattach the bezel insert. The bezel by itself would no snap back on properly.

Which begs the question... Why is it exactly that these dealers are trusted???

I don't really think the color of the silver date wheel is close to the gen at all. From certain angles, it almost black out completely. I've handled gen watches with silver date wheels, and the color really doesn't change based on view angle. This one really does, and is much more difficult to read that the gen silver date wheels I've seen.

kbh... have you actually fitted a gen crystal to yours? I'm curious as to whether or not it really will work. The crystal retainer ring is definitely different than the gen ring, but it might still work. My overall opinion of this watch is that it's probably worth the $200 price, but not in the same league with the MBW/MBK version (for $370).

Yeah... I think I went too far with mine. I smoothed them up a little and will just leave them as is. Next time I go a little slower.

Yep. Took about 10 minutes with a Dremel and small paper sanding disk. I didn't even remove the crown - just kept the paper side of the disk against the crown. I ended up taking them down more than I intended. Easy to do with the Dremel. I'll be more conservative next time.

I think I may have taken them down a little too far.

I realize the genuine retainer ring is different, but you don't think a genuine one would slide down over that crystal?