Timemaster

I have the 46mm version (no chrono), It is one of the best repped versions there is. A really big watch however and a little to big, so this 44mm would be great. Hope they soon make a top quality rep, then i buy it for sure.

I have one with a black dial, brand new. Never liked it. Should have known as I am not a quartz guy.

The Asian 2824 is a very good movement. Very reliable and easy to regulate. They can be very accurate. Mine are all within the 5 seconds a day range. The Asain 7750 is not that easy to regulate. 20 seconds a day is already good. This movement is also less reliable and the new 37mm version has metal jewels instead of jewels. Metal jewels need to be good serviced to last. We all know that the 7750 is very poor serviced. If they can earn a dollar by using metal bearing instead of rubies, they will not spend a lot more for a good service. So these newest 7750 will not last very long. The Asain 2824 however can run for years without a problem and without service.

The only difference between sapphire and ruby is that different impurities have been added to change the color; there is no difference in their properties as a bearing. advantage of using jewels is that their ultrahard slick surface has a lower coefficient of friction with metal. The static coefficient of friction of steel-on-steel is 0.58, while that of sapphire-on-steel is 0.10-0.15. Why they are used ? Jewels serve two purposes in a watch.[9] First, reduced friction can increase accuracy. Friction in the wheel train bearings and the escapement causes slight variations in the impulses applied to the balance wheel, causing variations in the rate of timekeeping. The low, predictable friction of jewel surfaces reduces these variations. Second, they can increase the life of the bearings. In unjeweled bearings, the pivots of the watch's wheels rotate in holes in the plates supporting the movement. The sideways force applied by the driving gear causes more pressure and friction on one side of the hole. In some of the wheels, the rotating shaft can eventually wear away the hole until it is oval shaped, and the watch stops. The above is taken form wikipedia. Of course not all gears need a jewel. If a gear is used to move the hour hand it will not have that much friction as it moves really slow. So I think the Chinese thought why use a jewel as it is not really necessary. I worked in the computer industry and once was told by a main board engineer that the first design was one of the best. Later designs were stripped en they took as much as possible part of the beards because each of the removed coils, resistors or conductors could bring extra profits as hundred thousands of boards where produced. Some revisions were faulty or unstable because they took of too much components. He also told me that the economical lifespan of a main board was 3 years (back in 2000) so they did not bother if the quality was so poor that a board would start to be unstable after a few years. They bought the most cheap components to make more profit. The "leaking conductor incident" was an example of this cost cutting method that however cost a lot of money for the manufacturers as many went defective earlier then intended. The metal bearings are probably done because it saves productions costs and are not really necessary. The intended lifespan of the movements might be for a few years only. A Swiss however can work for generations when serviced. The Asian 28800bph with 25 jewels can also be serviced and have a long lifespan. The Chinese now make a mistake in my opinion. Yes you can save a few dollar extra when you make the movement cheaper, or use a lower quality material for the lume or AR coating. The lume and AR can be changed later but a movement improvement is something else. I also do not understand that the factories use a poor quality lume. Customers would rather pay some extra for quality and by trying to produce the watches as cheap as possible and trying to sell them for the highest possible price they make the wrong choice and make now a few bucks extra but in the end will hurt their profits as customers will turn their back on them. I buy reps because they do not only look quit similar as the gen but also because they started to use reasonable quality of parts. An Asian 2824 can be just as reliable as a Swiss and you can have an almost similar looking watch with a movement that looks and works like the one in a gen. The decision to use less quality parts is what i think not what customers want and will only widen the gap between Chinese watch industry and Swiss again.

Very good post. I checked and indeed I also have models with metal instead of jewels. Easy to see if you see one with jewels and metal next to each other (have both). These movements must be much cheaper to produce and I think are less in quality. This is a post that might be quit important. I also would like the Dealers to be honest when they advertise their watches.The question is why they do use metal instead of rubies. As far as I know the rubies they use nowadays are synthetic and very cheap to produce.

I bought some cables, also the Monster model. Quality was good even in 1080p, and for the price I paid i was sure it had to be fakes. The cable was quit well manufactured and looked very high quality. If you buy an Ipod touch clone (smaller then the original) you get nice device with very good sound, but they rip you off as they advertise it as a 16GB device. It is however a 2Gb device that will be seen by Windows as 16GB (they tinkered with it) and FAT does not really format so even after format it says 16GB. You can copy 16GB on files on the device, but it will start rewriting each time it reaches 2GB but will not erase if from the directory. So it seems the data is still there but it is gone (overwritten). You end up having 14GB of lost (it says corrupt) files. They also do it with 16GB SD memory cards, same thing, they are only 2 or 4GB but Windows or your camera sees them as 16GB. You can download a program they made for checking this fraud : H2testw These goods are sold often from Hong Kong, not China.

I do not think it is paint. The color is made by heating the screws very fast and with a high temperature. The metal gets stronger that way and gets a classy look. I can understand you do not like the color because the gen does not have it. Maybe you can better buy new metal color screws or take them out of a defective movement. Of course there is a risk you damage your movement when you exchange them. Other solution is go to a watch-smith and let him service your movement and while doing that can easily exchange the screws. I do have the same movement and it looks very nice with the screws, looks more like a gen the the gen

I had these issue's with the 21J models. The ETA clones have not had this problem however. I solved it by pressing the release of the stem on the movement and readjusted the stem. Sometimes with the cheaper movements the stem gets out of the right position when you pull it out and push it in often. Think that a normal user will hardly have the problem but collectors that have to set the time and date more often because they rotate the watches probably could encounter this flaw much faster.

Went to see The taking of Pelham 123. Good film especially because of the great acting of Denzel Washington and John Travolta. John get's a change to promote Breitling. He plays one of the bad guys and wears a Breitling Chrono with a black dial (avenger or colt) and 3 white chrono dials. You can see him wearing this watch in a lot of shots in the film. But when he watches the time they blend in the watch full screen and then it is a white dialed Colt without Chrono. Probably only a watch freak will notice it and this goof but because they show the white colt several times in full screen it is a rather obvious mistake.

One of my first reps was a Tag Heuer Aquaracer. Bought it extremely cheap form a dealer in Thailand. Had a great case, good rubber strap but the dial was not so good. The Quartz movement is just as big as the case (so very big) and is mostly metal. Does not look cheap. Strangest thing is that this watch is the best timekeeper i have. I also own Seiko and Citizens watches (models like the Seiko premier and velatura). This rep however stays accurate on the second for at least 3 months, none of my others watches is able to do so. So a rep quartz can indeed be very reliable and accurate.

Besides my Seiko altlas my $100 Omega PO is also waterresistant. I greased the caseback and the crown a little and it can be worn under water and in even my shower/steam cabine. No problem at all. Of course I did not dive 100 meter with it. However beware, when you get your watch from the dealer the caseback is often not that tight. In many cases you can open it by hand. I grease them al little bit (the case back goes in also much more smoothly then) and tighten them with a tool. Of course not that much that you destroy the O ring. Thighten it, but gently of course.

I would not buy from this guy, looks like a scammer. $300 and $350 for brand new omega watches, yeah right check out this model : Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster 35TH Anniversary Moon Watch Question May 20, 2009 3:38 PM Sorry, I previously bid on what I thought was an authentic Omega Speedmaster but the watch that I received was Chinese junk and they would not refund my money. You are better of selling an authentic Omega on E-Bay because this place seems to have fakes. seller Response May 20, 2009 6:11 PM sorry, we haven't ebay account . but i can guarantee our watch are 100% real authentic . 100 % money back guarantee ! best regards ! Strange however all the pictures he uses have the camera logo from Ebay in right corner. Jun 8, 2009 12:52 PM on what day did u ship the watch and with what carrier? i still have nothing and u didnt give me tracking number And he has no feedback, well 2 people ordered and one that paid $350 24th of may is since that days asking for a trackingnumber