great post davidsen
important considerations :
- 1:1 case
- correct crown and guard.
- good operation on guard lever.
- Super Lume dial & hands (or at least offer as an optional extra)
- correct hands
- no recessed pin
- sapphire front and back
- correct AR
- movement reliability (offer a full server as an optional extra)
- nicely engraved movement. Stick on plates are not good. (the recent 127s engraving were dreadful !!)
- functional swan neck
- high quality control (i've just return a watch to a dealer as there were several issues, including bits of loose metal in the mechanism and inside the front
- correct and high quality papers
- PAM box as optional extra ??
- maybe offer without the strap... everyone replaces the strap, so little point in supplying one. (make one available as an extra)
Davidsen, I've been following the work that you've been doing for some time now and its very impressive. Its great that you ask for feedback.
I guess the real selling point of any replica is its resemblance to the original, the closer you get, the more demand there will be, espically for popular models.
I'm very intersted in getting a 127 from you, however not sure i would purchase one that had stick on plates, thats a really big negative.
Cheers
A