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gran

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  1. Like that California dial So do you plan on doing any other style of watches than the true Italian Panerai style? All the best Gunnar
  2. ..ultmate aging inded...knowing you the watch probably can tolerate it...and is there still snow on the ground? must be from Finland considering the tires on that thing... spring here in Fredrikstad, have removed 2 large containers worrth of branches from pruning the 14 fruit trees in my garden (mostly apple and pears), the early flowers came weeks ago but waiting for the first fruit trees to blossom
  3. I know...I kow...I should know better but its happening...
  4. Love this watch layout and Longines is a very respectable brand in my eyes
  5. Thanks duddly...it is an very expensive world
  6. Ok good advice Watchmeister only I like this one better...gotta see the movement you know Could you post something on your hybrids?
  7. Dr.Frankensteins CHOPARD (Chopard Mille Miglia Gran Turismo XL Chronograph 16/8459)
  8. Thanks guys..I really hope this movement will be a winner! Wearing the "modified movement" watch for the first full day today...checking out if it keeps good Contr
  9. Looks great this SHARK DIVER but do you really think she needs the watch?
  10. Sporting this VC Jumping Retrograde Date today
  11. Thanks guys This replica world is a crazy unpredictable and expensive place, and it makes me wonder how Dr.Frankenstein can sleep at night...probably he is up all night making new monsters...
  12. You have all heard my rant about the new 37mm Asian 7750 movement (also called asian a07.211), so I contacted Domenico (now renamed Dr.Frankenstein) in Germany and we agreed he would instal a brand new SWISS 7750 into my GTXXL watch for me for 300Euro Then one late dark windy night damp with rain, pictures of the newly installed movement in my GTXXL arrives over the net....and I say hell!! what is this???? it is not a SWISS 7750 even if it has SWISS stamped on it, the asian balance and balance plate clearly asian, and it ain't completely asian either strange thing from Dr. Frankenstein in TransylGermany indeed I pondered and pondered, if Dr. frankenstein had made me a monster movement....a FrankenMovement....why had he not told me? why had he not asked me?....obviosuly the good doctor must have run into some serious difficulties fitting the Tiny SWISS 7750 movement into the GTXXL case....and decided to go Franken on me to solve his difficulties....use the mainpalte of the larger asian 07.211 and take it from there.....but just as Dr. Frankenstein always does there are difficulties....he could not put a SWISS balance and plate on it so the monster looks more Asian Clone than it does SWISS ETA...but blued screws are gone and the Swiss bearing on rep rotor running the show is devoid of the blue....this is the tale of Dr.Gran meets Dr.Frankenstein So by chance or by design Dr.Gran now has a fully serviced 37mm 7750 FrankenMonster purring at 28.800bp in his COHPARD GTXXL Some pictures of what has gone down in TransylGermany: My watch on the wrist So my first Franken The first a07.211 FrankenMovement ever Dr.Gran hope to meet Dr.Frankenstein again.....what will this pair spawn the next time?....I will keep you posted on the sequell
  13. Cultural Learnings of RWG for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of replica fanatics
  14. Pardon! What is usually described as the pearl is difficult to search on google for me....this should have been a rediculusly easy thing to find but no... Looking around to buy a genuine bezel insert for OMEGA PO....I was thinking of the posibility to the Gen OMEGA pearl by itself..seem difficult without buying the entire bezel insert or more But what is the technical name for the pearl? It seems: Pearl = luminous dot = bezel dot = luminous dot at 12 ...... any other names for it?? anyone knows the correct term??? Generic Illumines Dot for Bezel Insert seem to be the correct item for ROLEX? replacement Luminous Dot for ROLEX on ofrei: Gran
  15. The Antikythera Mechanism more than 2000 years old is often decribed as a mechanical computer that show the motions of the planets, sun and moon...but in some respects it is like the complications on a watch...guess if it had a winding mechanism it would be a watch/clock and not a computer? A perplexing artifact was recovered by sponge-divers from a shipwreck in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, a small island that lies northwest of Crete. The divers brought up from the wreck a great many marble and and bronze statues that had apparently been the ship's cargo. Among the findings was a hunk of corroded bronze that contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. Writing on the case indicated that it was made in 80 B.C., and many experts at first thought it was an astrolabe, an astronomer's tool. An x-ray of the mechanism, however, revealed it to be far more complex, containing a sophisticated system of differential gears. Gearing of this complexity was not known to exist until 1575! It is still unknown who constructed this amazing instrument 2,000 years ago or how the technology was lost. read more here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antikythera-mechanism-eclipse-olympics
  16. "watches were seized from Binh Cam Tran, who pleaded guilty last year to charges including trafficking in counterfeit goods. Tran is serving six years in federal prison. He has been ordered to pay more than $2.2 million to the Rolex Co. Authorities say Tran fabricated hundreds of thousands of fake Rolex watches in his home near Philadelphia. Officials seized about 24,000 counterfeit watches and enough parts to create 1 million more." My hypothesis: Maybe he did not actually fabricate them, but only changed the dials?
  17. I beleived they were more expensive...and some models are quite expensive and some very very affordable....seems like a great buy if you can get a model you like
  18. Not expensive..manual wind Glash
  19. gran

    Franken UPO

    FrankenBeautyUPO indeed Happy Timekeeping Gran
  20. My first ever Glashütte arrived today
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