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Even with a hurricane at my back, your bike looks ALOT faster than my vintage metal. But what is wrong with your sight (though I guess it is probably difficult to see anything when cruising at hyper-warp speeds)?

I always keep the shiny side up.

freddy - check out this thread!

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=99816

Much respect is due

Easier said than done for us noobs! lol

WOW thats a pretty picture!

+1 to that comment! Awesome!

And the SNA411a:

Definiatly one on the way soon. Gray market ones are dirt cheap ATM.

Col.

That's like the most complicated dial in the world!! lol

What are all the numbers for?!

Ahhh, thank you, I think I recall reading about that before on here

They're supposed to overlap slightly, aren't they?

Rolex Quartz 5100 with the Beta 21 movement.

*n00b question*

What's wrong with the subdial in that pic? Looks fine from here! lol

So he's a bit poor then...

I'm not sure if WM9 has some??

Yes. A few weeks. There are a lot of sub-sections to this Board .. not easy.

As a recent n00b myself, I'd allow at least 2 months of reading the board to get familiar with all the terms and what's available. This will mean that you don't buy a pup and regret it!

This has definitely been asked before - have a search!

Gnargh, I'm in a dilemma! lol

Chris and his team have sent through the pics, including a macro one of the subdial as I asked for but it appears that the white faced ones can suffer with a very thin outside ring to bottom half the subdial, to the point of being missing in some cases - I think I can see it in nicewatches' photos a little earlier too, as well as in Mick's original pictures, and now I'm worried if it's going to be too noticeable or going to lessen my enjoyment of it

Should I swap to the black faced version? Lani's shots show that the black one seems to have much better printing on the subdial rings than the white faced ones, but I did want a white one!

This is my first rep, though, so perhaps I'm expecting too much

If Mick and nicewatches can reassure me that it really isn't noticeable then I will give Chris the go-ahead to get it shipped - I can't wait!

I made a few orders with "Andy" and all in all, the watches were pretty good for the price, especially the Eta models. I still have a gold plated (g/p over steel) day/date from back then and it runs and keeps good time 20+ years later.

This was just about all I had until the internet came around and I started buying a few off the 'net starting in the mid 1990s. (I saw where one guy I talked to on the phone about fakes in the 1990s selling on the'net had been busted and got 3 years in prison)

Do you know what - I didn't even think about how much the internet must have impacted on things!

Without the 'net I don't see how any community or knowledge base such as this could have flourished - we must have literally been at the mercy of whatever the factories and dealers wanted to sell us!

lol

Like to wear watches tight so they don't move - can't stand having something rattling around!

I was looking into getting a watch for a 'big' birthday as I had one for a previous 'big' birthday and it's nice to get something to keep that means something

Unfortunately I was looking at B&Rs, which I soon found out are slightly above my budget... lol

One of the guys on another forum I'm on that is unrelated to watches gave me a link to this place and hey presto - after resisting the temptation to splash out on the first thing I fancied, I'm now awaiting a WM9/BK SD and a 1939 Portugueser

Have a search as there's been some recent posts on this

Seems like it shouldn't be difficult to achieve.

You could say that about a lot of things lol

Another great review, thank you

Stop making me lust after things I can't afford! lol

AFAIK the WM9 V1 and V2 is the Sub, not the SD.

I was thinking I might give building a DJ a go.

Now I'm not so sure... lol

I just found this watch while browsing complicatedtime.com.

I love the idea, but it can't be cheap! lol

Ahhhh, I can't say I was even aware of that - n00bness strikes again lol

I guess if you sourced a gen movement then it would be a possibility, although I'd love to see the dealers face when you broke the news!

True, true!

But you are at least creating something out of your hobby, rather than p*ssing it up the wall, if you'll excuse my french lol

As a n00b question... Would you be able to take your Daytonas into a proper dealer and sell them as 'gen'?

With all the gen parts, would they be able to look the numbers up to see if they 'officially exist'??

I do agree that drip-drip spending feels better than paying out in a big hit! lol

I guess the other thing to think about is how much you've effectively saved off buying a 'gen' from a shop, all for a little patience

Thanks for another great review!