beaker-king

You probably won't find a good one. The dial markers are green paint/lume and the hands are wrong. If you want a good version you will have to find one with the correct case and bezel and then go gen for the dial, hour,minute and seconds hands as well as have the GMT hand repainted and relumed. You will need a watch maker to do the work for you as the seconds hand has to be modified to work as well. It is worth it in the end but isn't cheap.

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WOW! That is the best looking trio of Omegas ever. The first two are my absolute favorites.

Nice. Very nice!

Superb job! PM on the way. I can resist no longer.....

My bro-in-law has a rep Tag Heuer Carrera chrono.

It runs the seconds at 9 and has a day date function.

The small silver bezel that surrounds the day date window came loose so he asked me to see if I could fix it.

I removed the stem and movement and put it back in place, reassembled everything and it worked fine for about a week and then the bezel fell off again.

I removed the stem and movement and adhered the bezel to the dial with a minute amount of glue. No squeeze out etc.

I reassembled everything again and went to set the date and time for him.

The day/date were aligned at this point.

I pulled the crown out to the day/date adjustment and the day only changed halfway and stopped. Turning the crown did nothing now. The date changed fine so I tried advancing the day by using the time setting position. The day advanced but was misaligned in the window.

I removed the stem and movement and checked for glue etc on the day overlay, nothing.

After reassembly the day only changes about halfway when in the day/date setting position but changes OK when in the time setting position but ends up being misaligned.

Can you tell me what I did wrong this time? I didn't force anything or hear anything strange when I reassembled it.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

It almost seeems like one of the gears jumped a notch or something.

I will be banging my head against the wall while waiting for a reply.

Who is going to wear that thing? I don't even think Stallone himself would pull it off!

That wristshot is priceless!

+1. That is a priceless picture !

According to the Officine Panerai website it is called "Paris Hobnail" and on the various watch sites it is alternately decribed as "Clous de Paris" which is ....A guilloché pattern on the dial of hollowed lines that intersect to form tiny pyramidal shapes.

It looks more like a waffle to me being that the squares between the intersections look indented.

I like it no matter what it's called.

Any reason why the 6 is glowing much brighter than the rest? Did you flash that more?

But lovely piece, love the hobnail dials on the Regettas

Yes, the six and lower half of the dial were charged brighter because they were closer to the flashlight when I was performing my balancing act trying to photograph it.

Just my feeble efforts and nothing to do with the lume application etc.

Then the second picture when the lights were out shows the C3 as blueish when it is actually greenish...amateur

That's odd, you must have had one side closer to the lamp when charging it, as the lower half seems brighter than the top part of the dial.

Also, it may just be the lighting, but Zig's paint seems to be darker than the gen hands. The gen hand colour is much closer to the blue on the right sub-dial.

Here's a pic:

Yes, you are right on both counts. I was working in the dark with a LED flashlight to charge it while trying to keep the autofocus depressed and not move too much. The lume is even under "normal" cicumstances though.

I realize that the blue is darker than gen but it seems to be a hard colour to match. I recall a member on RG bought 11 different paint colours and it still wasn't right. I think he ended up saying he blended some together to achieve the perfect match. It is a lot closer to the correct colour now.

A+ for observation..

yes know we can see them, nice but a little bit too small maybe next time try 640/480 or so.

but this is a nice watch

denz

Photobucket resized them automatically. I will try to make them larger.

OK. After losing them I re-downloaded them and sized them bigger. Hope that looks better.

ahhhhhhh......where are the pictures? Can't see them!

I had to edit the script so they would show up for me.

Can you see them now?

I just got my PAM308 back from The Zigmeister and thought I would post a few pics.

Be warned that the pics are lousy with poor lighting but I only have a cheap point and shoot right now.

The AR was removed as well as the chrono hands repainted and the hands and dial re-lumed.

Quick tunaround over the holidays too.

It looks much better now and I am very pleased. The pictures don't do it justice but here goes.....

A very generous gesture by all involved. Thanks.

C'mon....humour us and swap them. Just for fun.

You can always put them back the original way if you don't like it.

Very nice looking either way.

Anybody know if there is a high quality rep of this one?

I searched around for quite a while several months back and the only version available was the quartz version for around $100 if I recall.

It is a classy looking watch. Some were advertised with automatic movements but when I ordered one they advised the factory wasn't making anything other than quartz ones.

This is the model I was looking for:

Hope this helps answer your question.

I have only noticed the broken gear on this particular model, I never really took notice of the non-chono ones. The bezel crown doesn't screw down, it's sealed with an o'ring, same as the pushers, they are sealed with o'rings, screwing them down is not for waterproofing, it's for preventing accidental activation of the chrono.

As with all reps, stay away from the water.

Crystal clear now. Thanks Rob.

Thanks for the heads up The Zigmeister.

I imagine that the warning goes for all the BR02 bezel gears (chrono & non-chrono)?

I have a BR02 non- chrono on the way so I haven't looked at one closely. Do the crowns not screw down to make it watertight? How do they manage water resistance? Seals only?

Personally I would go for SS - scratches can be polished out and they won't damage the look of the watch if you leave them, which will be the case with PVD - unless you like the beaten up 'worn' look (which I don't lol).

+1. I have ordered the SS version for that very reason and it is on the way. Apparently they are excellent reps but basically it depends on how hard you would be on your watch. If it becomes a daily wearer and gets dinged up it will either look like a gen diving watch or less than perfect depending on your point of view. Myself I am too @n@l to go with the PVD for that reason.

Yep, you're right! I didn't see it at first. It is still a very nice looking rep, but I am waiting out a 42mm UPO (or at least 4th gen) to show up again. It may never be made again, then something like this will have to do.

I know these are more $$ and the orange version but how do they compare to the 4 th gen version? Supposedly they are calling this one the 5th gen now.

Oops...here is the link

http://www.pam111.com/product_info.php?cPa...0677c31b6340da1

That's the same one I have been looking for as well.

This is the closest one I can find...

http://www.watcheden.com/tag-heuer-monaco-...-11031-p-1.html