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Agree! Your pic skills should not be disregarded as well.

I can feel your feelings, sql. No more than 30 mins before reding your post I was giving my Miciomacio his daily treatment, and I know the hour of our separation is approaching at long steps in spite of anything I can do. My wife and I have no children, and our pets are our only "children". Here is a few pics of him in his days of youth and wealth: Here is Sissi, who left us after a one-year ordeal: They used to be together once... they are going to be together once again: I wanted to also post pics of our well-being pets, but I simply can't go on. Can't see the screen through tears. So, please just believe I can feel you.

Lello and I already had to resort to that service. It worked in the end, but it was a pain in the ***. They judge whether you are entitled to have your money back or not, and you have to pass through several definite steps, and you have only a small timeframe (a few days) to do the most important step that is requesting their intervention. As they also consider the messages exchanged between you and the seller to make their judgment, better knowing it in advance and making it clear with the seller the precise features of the watch that you expect and any other things that might be relevant.

HAPPY END I sent the watch back to Tony, and to my delight & surprise I received in exchange a Daytona latest generation, 28800 bph (verified), exactly like the one on sale @ 268 USD from "our" collectors. So, in the end (and thanks to Tony!) this all came out with me getting a $268 + s/h watch @ $190. As I am left speechless, I am going to leave any comments and thoughts to you...

I stumbled upon this page on DHgate. Buyer beware. That seller had several identities on DHgate, and several of them with a very poor rating.

I remember I saw a 140 rep on DHgate, but I did not place a bookmark and unfortunately I have no time to find it again now. Also, most likely it was a scam. Pics looked as of a gen. EDIT: got the time to do a search. Results (leaving out those looking just like a 104 in a rose gold case): http://www.dhgate.com/p_ff80808118c21ff901...6b450e424a.html http://www.dhgate.com/p_ff80808119200db401...ef0b5845b2.html http://www.dhgate.com/p_ff808081175c785901...5d4a212ff3.html http://www.dhgate.com/p_ff80808118d3472301...cc3f621510.html I bet that you would get, at best, a 104 in a rose gold case...

Even my poor English made me suspect about the double meaning of that... but I was unable to resolve what would have been better... "want the date"?... "want date"?... Which is the correct English for that??

Thanks again to everyone. I am really happy that this watch meets the taste of other PAM fans. Thanks, D. It was a plain boring light brown (almost orange, actually) Hirsh Liberty, then customized to make it softer and give it a time and used patina. Customization included: nail softener oil, Prestige shoe cream (cherry red and palisander), and Letraset promarkers (burnt sienna and henna on the strap, gold on the stitching). In live the straps looks better than in the shots. In the pics the alternating reddish and brown nuances look sharper than in reality. Still, I am not completely satisfied with it. But I could not wait further to make this project public.

Just wait for my Alzheimer moving a little more forward, and you won't have to worry about it either. Out of joke, your way is no doubt the best and only way to get a correct 228 rep now. It just exceeds my currently allocated budget for a rep...

Great watches, Jay! I especially love the PVD logo. Awesome! EDIT: I now read that the Jaytech has tobacco dial and brass hands. I did not see them clearly in the pic. Awesome it too!! Just, differently from me, you seem able to follow the OEM route...

Yes, the dial of a DSN 228 should come out very good, J.! Unfortunately, as you know, the caseback of the 228 is very different from the 088's and 089's...

Thanks all, your appreciation is very welcome! Thanks, Uncle, you got quite close. But... Minifiddy complete case (including crown, CG, & crystal) PAM104 (slightly modified) dial DSN 7750 golden hands (slightly modified to fit the Asian 21J) Asian 21J movement (yes, I also wanted it auto, besides of the date) Stem adapter to fit the Auto 90 stem into the 120 manual crown tube PAM 029 metal spacer ring -- to fit the Asian 21J into the Minifiddy case (darn, I forgot to take a shot of the back!) Customized cyclops applied on the Mifiddy crystal. Great! "SURFTECH" taken!

Actually, your low dome looks better than the high dome I tried, IMHO. I also tried a low dome, but it did not look that way... I wonder why... In any case, congrats! That's a great timepiece!

I love the Fiddy look, but 47mm is oversized to my wrist, and I really want a date. So, here is my Ideal PAM Fantasy Project on its current status. Full body shot: Full body & strap: Resting: Date shot: Wristshot - daylight: Wristshot - flashlight: -------- Next steps: 1 - Larger golden hands, more Fiddy- / Radiomir-style. 2 - Brown & unbranded dial (and, obvioulsy, a relume on that occasion). 3 - Date font improvement. -------- Opinions are welcome. Thanks for looking, :sss:

That was the least I could do, after having been a so poor prophet... I absolutely agree. They are also so inexpensive that you may even buy a whole bunch of them to keep you supplied for aeons. I tried a few of them already, and I found that the model with the most similar shape to our fiddy and minifiddy crystals are their Sternkreuz high dome (HWS) crystals. Also, be informed that you may renew your acrylic crystals by yourself with the easy-to-find (and inexpensive as well) PoliWatch product. If you measure the diameter of your crystal (oops, of the bezel where it used to sit, I mean ) in order to get a replacement, please let us know. I wrote it down when I disassembled my minifiddy, but I seem now unable to find the paper where I wrote it.

You are always welcome, Stephane. I am noone to educate anyone, though. I just like sharing with good members like you the little I happened to become in knowledge of. Glad to hear it, Stephane. Congrats once again, and wear it well!

Argh watchwatcher, really sorry to hear the bad news. Especially exactly in a moment when I am wearing my minifiddy on my wrist while I am typing this. Maybe a 212 crystal would fit? (Edit: measured the glass crystal of my 212. It is 37mm diameter). Else, inexpensive acrylic crystals are available on cousinsuk.

To me, the "L SWISS MADE L" touching the 6 is more bothering than the large space between SWISS and MADE. The short marker @9Hr is supposed to be an easy fix for a relumer. What I feel placing DSN one step forward is his very accurate caseback.

I absolutely agree. How refreshing to see a... collector... willing to echange knowledge with us purchasers/fanatics. Each of us knows things that the other may lack, a mutual exchange is very likely to result to mutual benefit as well. So, thanks to Mark for his clarification, good will, site improvement... and especially for his avatar (please forgive me, I go crazy on Asian chicks). Mark, I humbly suggest you classify your HBBs as 1st version (slow beat, "low" cost) and 2nd version (high beat, high cost). Any insights on the pros & cons of each version from expert members like Pix is highly welcomed. I learnt a lot from these two threads. Really thanks to anyone involved.

That timepiece is a masterpiece, Stephane. Congrats to you, and kudos to all the great members involved in making this project a reality! (A special hi to my old friend W) As for the strap, and as a personal homage to your project, I thought you might like a pic from the genuine OP 2004 (G series) catalogue: As you can see, they propose it with a black croco strap... ...but, honestly, I prefer it with your rubber strap. In any case, just leave brown out. Better playing with black, or black + grey, or black + off white.

Davidsen

Lello is currently in trouble with his new PC. Patience.

Exactly. So the true mean figure should stay middlepoint between those two extremes, and 1-5% might be not so far from reality. Most likely near the lower limit, though.

It is one of the better looking timepieces I ever happened to look at. Congrats!

Uhm. It is a few months now that I am keeping an eye on his rose gold model http://www.timeshops.net/Hublot_bigbang_Ai...c_case_1121.htm and I know it was @ 397 USD until late February. Now it is @455 USD. One thing that prevented me from buying it was the 42mm size.