crystalcranium

Bingo!!!! They belong in the humor section. How many of us have had a thread shipped of to another forum title almost instantly because we mention a brand name or a balance wheel. I guess humor is harder to identify. I personally have always chuckled at the guys posts but tongue in cheek is hard over the web.

Hey Steve, I'd be in...but lots of details to work out. You wouldn't know it by my post count but work actually keeps me pretty busy!

Great looking watch but something of a rip off of the Swiss Millitary !2,000 Feet diving watch.

Lady's Datejust???? Your request was kinda vague. The fact is that there are few lady rep models when compared to the number of men's replicas available. Round and no Roman numerals cuts a small number into a tiny nimber. there are some beautiful cartier's and Pateks but...alas...non round and Roman.

I don't know what to say or comment except that I'm reminded of one of my favorite movie quotes. What Rhett Butler said to a sobbing Scarltt O'Hara guiltly confessing that she had used her second husband just for his name and money and that she was ashamed and sorry.. "Here...dry your tears. If you had it to do all over again, you'd do no different. You're like the theif who's not the least bit sorry he stole, but he's terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail."

Steve, We're in the same general part of the world. PM sent!!!!! C

Are you kidding?.... Manners, manners, manners. Look, I am a tireless campaigner for "newbie tolerance" here but some of this goes over my limits. This board is not a dealer and watch directory where one comes for the shortest distance between their needs and a satisfactory purchase. We talk watches here first and formost, ...experience, wisdom and technology. We are not a switchboard available for routing to "the best" or "the safest" or "the nicest". If you had done the searching you claimed to do, you would have known TTK is not a dealer in any conventional sense of the word. He is a procurer who trades in watches primarily to finance his own watch collecting hobby. Expecting "customer service" from someone who has very publically made it known here that he is decidedly not a dealer kinda proves you didn't do your homework. I don't want to come off here as smoking a 3 post newbie a new a-hole. I hope you stay and learn and contribute but,...come on man....You couldn't have picked a worse way of introducing yourself. Well, maybe if you asked "Who has the best....."

Sorry, didn't mean to give you the impression I was questioning the internal stability of your marriage and how it might deal with an impulse buy. Lord knows, mine has had it's gyroscope wobbled over the years by my addiction for wrist candy. The thread is starting to smell like "got the last word in" so I'll bow out. Good luck with your tourbi!!! CK

Dead link. EDIT OOPS....not dead yet...... ...hey, I'm by no means a tourbi basher, they are MAHHHvalous...and, they are strictly a technological piece of window dressing in a wristwatch. I think Breuget would be amused at the frivolity of a tourbillon in a wristwatch

Spoken like a true dealer!!!!

What was it Greenspan said beore the dot com bubble burst.....Irrational Exuberance! Good luck with your dive into very rare rep ownership. I'd love for more than a couple of owners to step up and testify to perormance and reliability but there isn't a big database here to make a statistics based decision. It's one big gamble. Your wife's against it? Good Luck!

Good luck and I hope a better relationship is forged....but I don't have high hopes. Narcissim, rudeness and self-centerdness tend to transcend language.

I think supurlative is an adjective stretch. It's a tourbillon...yes...and by definition is a facinating micromechanical, but supurlative is a word I associate with performance, manufacture and reliability, not design. My experience with replica watches time and time again is that the best performers, the one's that work for years trouble free, are the simpler mechanical designs. There has been an almost linear association between complexity and failure in my replica watches. A tourbillon is just asking for trouble. Again, this is just my return for money equation I apply to these purchases. I'm not putting value judgements on anyone else's idea of what "money well spent" is. This watch, to me, is way too risky, a potential $900 throwaway when it fails.

No [censored]? I know Josh was having trpuble getting one for me about 3-4 months ago. Are they really discontinued?

Simple and elegant.

Jesus....never, never, never. Yes the center post tourbi's are aparently a later generation tourbi so their reliability might be somewhat more dependable than the carousel tourbi but to spend a thousand dollars, or more for the center post models (both are true tourbis by the way)from a dealer in the black is just foolish. I guess we all have to feed our addictions in a variety of ways, but shelling out this kind of cash just to have a tourbillon watch ....just couldn't do it. Repair on these is somewhat dicey....replacement parts...where are you going to get them? I would take the $900 and get three out of sight reps or perhaps....a genuine....dare I say. I know addingwatch is sort of our local devotee of these replicas.....he's also apparently rich!

....as the dealers probably suspected it would.... Like I said before in the LW Lies thread, they will hide out in the storm cellar until the worst is over. They have lots of experience and faith in the never ending stream of tongue wagging newcomers salivating over new found dealers who don't charge them $900 for an ETA Submariner.

Just about every mechanical movement, genuine and replica, that has a date wheel warns about changing the date between the hours of 9p and 4a. If you seriously "de mesch" the gears, user service is not in the cards.

Here's the link to the Orbita watchwinder database. Every 7750 powered watch in it is a 800 CW/Day movement http://www.orbita.net/pages/17108.htm If your watch is losing a few minutes one week and gaining a few minutes in another.....service might be a good idea. Falling on one side of the knife edge or the other of perfection is the ideal, but not to the tune of minutes per week on either side. If your watch is slightly out of adjustment one way or another, the gains or losses should be more consistent. A watch that is out of adjustment +30 second/day for 7 days shouldn't suddenly be losing 30 sec/day over the next 7 days. EDIT: Just re read your post......I took a dash for a minus. Looks like your watch is consistantll gaining 2-3 minutes/week....and that's pretty much SOP for these watches out of the factory. There has been much discussion about the benefits or potential problems with keeping a mechanical watch running. Chronographs should be fully wound before operating the chronos so it's either take the risk in winding by hand...or get a winder. Unless you want to swirl through 800 turns daily...I'd bite the bullet for a cheap one. You might have to replace it every 12 months but they are pretty inexpensive. I had 4 Asian 7750 chronographs, all of which I kept on a winder, adjusted to about +- 10 sec/day. This cat and mouse game of adjustment took several days and that's about as good as you can expect. I have a genuine SMP Chrono Diver that's a year and a half old and I was able to tweek the factory adjustment so it's +- 1-2 sec/day and it falls on both sides of perfect so at week's end, it's generally spot on. Don't expect any asian movement to get to this point. It's just not in the materials. If you can tweek your 7750 to around +10-15 sec/day....that's sort of ideal. All you have to do then is pull the stem out every few days to stop the mechanisim and let real time catch up to your watch.

Looks like a bathroom scale

Let me just say my obligitory praise for Seiko. They are much maligned by true mechanical watch lovers for changing the rules in the 1970's and almost killing off the Swiss watch industry, but that being said, except for Rolex, no one makes an in house movement that rivals this one for reliability and no one does it for this price. I have an 11 year old version of this movement that has 17 jewels, not the 21 that are in the Seiko 5. It has never been serviced. I never adjusted it prior to 6 months ago when it gaining 20 sec/day started getting on my nerves. The watch is now chronometer accurate and is actually more accuruate on my wrist (+- 2 sec/day) than it is dial up on the work bench (+- 5 sec day) , a testimony to 5 position adjustability. If you love mechanical watches, the Seiko 7009 and 7S26 movements are tough to beat. If they only hacked and could be wound manually!!!!

I'll take a stab at a few of these but Ziggy is the definitive authority. I believe the Asian 7750 mechanically is a 1-1 copy of the ETA so winding turns should be the same. The Swiss ETA is 800 TPD Clockwise. I'm not sure what you mean by swirling the watch to wind it but your best bet to keep an asian 7750 running is to put it on a winder. The winding crowns can be balky and unscrewing a screw down crown daily can lead to stripping problems with the crown and case tube. Vigerous shaking is never a good idea with a replica watch. A little nomenclature corection. You do not want to regulate the rate of your watch. You can do some limited adjustments to how fast or slow the escapement train runs by legnthing or shortening the balance spring using the adjustment arm, but you do not want to mess with beat rate. Unfortunately for novice watch caseback crackers, the levers for doing both are stacked on top of eachother. I haven't had an Asian 7750 open in front of me for months so I'm not sure which one it is. (I think it's the bottom one with two dots on it.) If you move the beat rate adjustment arm, you can damage the watch. Messing with beat rate changes how the palet arm and wheel contact eachother and can cause a bunch of secondary wear problems. Great article from Walt Odet at TZ on this subject http://www.timezone.com/library/horologium/horologium0037 Don't try to oil your watch. Oiling is a precision operation with precision materiels best left to the craftsmen. It sounds to me like you are chomping at the bit to get inside your new 7750 and get it running accurately and smoothly...because you love it...and that's fine. I love passionate owners, but I can tell you that the tales of enthusiastic novices ruining their precious acqusitions far outnumber the stories ending well. If you really want this new toy to run in tip top condition, bite the bullet for another $175 and send it off to Ziggy. That's really the only way to get this asian copy of the iconic Swiss 7750 as close to the real thing as possible.

You might want to refer to the "Little White Lies" thread when talking about dealer claims. The truth is that there is no generally accepted term "wrapped" in the gold jewelry nomenclature. Gold filled or rolled gold plate is a process of mechanically bonding a thin layer of gold on to a base metal, usually brass that is then usually plated. This is a more labor intensive process than bath electroplating. Is this what you believe the suppliers of "wrapped" gold watch cases are doing? The fact is that the dealers are using a non specific term to describe the gold deposition process to insulate themselves from any claims of less than truth in advertising. And who's going to check it anyway????? Are you going to go through the expense of determining the exact thickness of the gold plating on your replica watch? Of course not. The quality test is in the wearing. If it looks like crap 2-3 years from now, are you really going to go after a dealer and claim you were sold a watch that was not up to specs in the description? The fact is, dealers are reletively safe in exaggerating gold thickness claims. If they put enough gold on it to keep the customer happy for 12 months, then the risk level goes down to almost zero. The term "wrapped" or "tripple wrapped" are primarily derived from scam site claims looking to puff up descriptions of $900-$1200 rip off replicas.

I would send them the watch case and bracelet without the identifying works. Ask them for a quote for just the plating. Tell them you heve, or you will have someone remove the mechanicals. I believe part of the watch plating expense is them having to involve a watch person to disassemble and re-assemble the watch...and sending them an annonymous case would help matters.

There's a $35 minimum but most watch plating, if they have to disassemble the watch, is going to run about $100. I sent them one disassembled watch case and bracelet and a 2.5 um plating was $60. Oh....they have a reputation for refusing work on replicas so sending them a non descript watch case or bracelet is probably the best way to go.