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This one is nice

I do not like it Sam I am dial face is to small for me that FF28

Josh is as good as they come he is trusthworthy (but noone is perfect) he will come true for you

Yes that strap makes this well designed watch come alive

Excellent watch Happy Timekeeping Gunnar

Great photo of theat Japanese nova lover Myself going for moderately good mechanical 4th gen? replica this happy feet day (I do not own any battery driven ones just yet due to the seconds hand issue and digital is just not me)

Those timex were cool But back to our age...Bulovas new one might be more than a mere curiosity this time around My real question here: Has any "smooth" sweep really been used in recent replicas? Can anyone confirm this? I just have second hand ( ) information on this.

yes indeed I think I have what their movement looks like (Asian) pluss they have solved the high electrivity usage problem (battery life 1/3 of normal lifespan tough maybe this is the movement? http://www.bestofwatch.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22#p22 A 3 volt battery that powers a Thermo-compensated ETA perpetual for 8 years or a Seiko 8Fxx for 10 years, here it's rated at 3 years, probably because of the 16 bps of the seconds hand! Calibre P102.12 (12.5 ligne) for men’s watches and the P112.10 (10 ligne) for women’s watches Quartz frequency is 262144Hz (versus 32768 Hz on a standard quartz, i.e. 8x more here) To sum it up : - Movement reference : P102 - Jewels : 8 - Made in Japan

I have no idea...but I like the idea about the flames

Enjoy it as it is (and please get a new jumper/sweater that matches the dial colours better )

but it will be worth the wait

Best looking Pam ther is

so what have bulova done this time? more batteries? so what have bulova done this time? more batteries?

You can file this under "black helicopters" but I thought I would share this. My local favorite AD and I were having a chat and it came up about the whole quartz sweeping second hand and whether he thought it was cool and whether he thought ISA movements (one manufacturer of said movements) was a good movement. I struck a nerve with him. He seems to think the Chinese side of the ISA group is a major supplier to the replica/copy watch biz. He seems to think the sweep quartz movement was made to fool people. I changed the topic because he was actually upset and he is nice guy. What do you guys/gals think?(written by doomedron at bdwf) http://bdwf.net/forum/showthread.php?t=64473 but that is just for the chrono seconds hand it seems Others add that: If you want a quartz-controlled movement (non-chrono) which doesn't step once per second, then the choices are propabaly limited to: - Seiko Spring-Drive (mechanical movement with a fly-wheel escapement controlled by a quartz circuit) - vintage Bulova Accuquartz (transistor tuning-fork movement controlled by a quartz circuit) - original Rolex Quartz or other vintage Swiss with Beta-21 (quartz movement with 'resonant reed' drive system) - original Timex Quartz (Dynabeat contact-switch electromechanical controlled by a quartz circuit) - vintage Luch Kvarts (transistorized electromechanical controlled by a quartz circuit)

yes old history those ROLEXEs that ticked like a quartz besides "Quartz with 'smooth sweep' second hand according to Baldrick at RWG" "This was another 'smoothy' rep, you don't often see, RADO! " according to Baldrick at RWG

Well I knew about the fantastic Spring-Drive and the old tuning fork movements had smooth sweep of their seconds hand but I did not expect any additional developments on this but a post over at oldRWG by Neil educated me that there are still for sale or have been some replicas with smooth sweeping second hand quartz movements Do any of you have one of these smooth sweep quartz replicas and are they any good? I also learned that the Bulova Precisionist Champlain wrist watches have Quartz precisionist bulova cal p102 10 movements with continuously sweeping second hand

getting married soon?

wearing this useless replica today

Or a Swordfish (NB! these are actually stolen pics from an ugly watch thread on a sperate forum)

Dont insult Salvador dali like that

Very cool looking SEIKO Ronin

Cant be beat. Clive is the winner!!!!

Good point! I guess I will eventually

Me too!!!