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No genuine version, still an extremely beautiful watch and a great combo! Congrats, wear it well.

Delicious baby, nice watch, and agree on the self-confidence hypothesis.

Really. And you came to the best place in the world about reps. No wonder, have a look at this thread. Well, that just shows that, besides of the money to get a gen, that gent also had the brain to get a rep. Just, not brain enough to sort out a good rep!

Well, B., just try and have not 20, but just 2, strokes with a rubber pumice eraser on a glass crystal then let me know. Gret news again, B., thanks! I plan to gauge interest about it in a next future. The only contrary point I can foresee is that glass crystal reps are usually low-cost reps, so that owners might not be willing to invest 30% of the rep cost in order to "just" improve look and scratch resistance. Oh well, we'll see.... Wow, chief, you got me excited! On my small experiences I came to conclude that a good double AR coating is the way to go even on PAMs. Fuck with the single-side AR accuracy! Our reps are not supposed to withstand a same hardwork as gens, so there's no point in having the outer crystal surface made of uncoated sapphire rather than AR coated...

PM replied to our top-notch PAM expert. Last piece sold. Thanks PAMman.

Just to let everyone know that my "special" cyclopses for PAM 027 and 028 (2892-A2 movement) are sold out now, I have none left either in their first (6.3mm diameter) or second (6.45mm diameter) incarnation. Please do not PM me for them anymore. Well, in reality, I am left with just one 2nd-choice 6.45mm cyclops. 2nd choice as it has some unnevenness along the border, and it is 1.0mm thick instead of about 0.95mm. The unnevenness is almost undetectable at naked eye, and the loose in mag power due to the higher thickness should be negligible, but that's it. If anyone wants it, I'll sell it at a 50% discounted price (i.e. 20 USD, s/h and paypal fees included). Thanks, and best regards, :sss:

Hi Rob, I am afraid this is a dead horse. Finepics seems to have lost his interest in these things (what a shame, his PVD looked excellent). I think that our current hopes are only in ajoesmith's and archibald/chieftang/kruzer00 group's hands... Btw, yes, polished SS is no problem to get PVDed. The beadblasting process that is preliminary to PVD coating (and as much important as it) will take good care of that.

Not at all, chief! This was great info indeed, thanks! I was just wondering about double-side AR coating on glass crystals. As in case of double-side AR the final scratch-resistance is that of the AR coating rather than that of the original matter, and as double-side AR coating is harder than glass but softer than sapphire, I was just thinking that double-side AR coating is an even better fit to glass than to sapphire. To put it shortly, about scratch-resistance double AR coating makes the glass better, and sapphire worse. I already had a double-side AR coating test performed on a [top quality] glass crystal, and the results were to my appointment. To my eyes, any loose in the AR effect and blueish nuance was completely acceptable. Now you said that an even better result may be achieved on glass, in case of a run for glass only! Do you think that, if there is interest enough on a run for double side AR on glass crystals, you would perform it?

It should be. If it is on a sapphire crystal (yes, they also put it on true sapphire crystals in place of AR), an effective way to remove it should be using any abrasive-polishing paste (other than diamond paste!) petroleum-based, or mixed with petroleum. Btw, Cape Cod cloths are like that. This is because sapphire cannot get scratched or made foggy-looking by abrasives. This method is effective in removing true single-side AR coating (low temperature AR coating), so I suppose it should also remove the fake AR coating. If it is on a glass crystal, as in DemonSlayer's watch, don't use abrasives: glass would get damaged. I would try a soft microfiber cloth impregnated with some solvents, starting with acethone. Keeping the crystal sunken under petroleum for 2-3 days before removing the tint might help to do the cloth work easier.

Yes to both your questions.

Glad to see you here, Joe! Congrats on your pieces, they are awesome. And thanks for sharing your experencies about the crowns and CGs. I managed to correct a few crowns that were sitting too flush with the case by just adding a small gasket.

That blue tint is the so-called "light AR coat" said by some collectors. It's not true AR, it is just a treatment on glass to give it the look (about color only) of AR coated sapphire. Btw, as Victoria correctly pointed out, sapphire without AR coating is colorless (or it just shows light rose reflections when looked at a step angle, if it is not top-quality sapphire). Davidsen's sapphires are blueish because they are AR coated. @Victoria: pizza cipolle e salame??!!?? (e funghi, ok...)

Go figure how our reps look! C'mon, don't be joking... opinions can vary from 'bad fake' to 'worse fake' to 'even worse fake'...

Just wait for our Strap Queen Victoria chiming in...

Bad fake.

I have quite a tiny wrist (17cm), and 44mm PAMs are no problem. I also occasionally got compliments while wearing 47mm models, so I suppose they did not look too ridicolous on my even small wrist (I feel more comfortable with 44mm models though). My 1st bet is that once you try a 44mm PAM you won't get satisfied by anything less anymore. My 2nd bet is that once you get a PAM, you will get a dozen -- in several sizes and styles. Good luck, and best wishes! Let us know how this goes on.

Nothing happens to the watch. Just the whole universe might overturn inside out like a sock.

I have to admit that that burgundy+blue is better than I suspected (still not so good to me though), and the brown+yellow is worse than I hoped (it may fit only a Ferrari also in my opinion). Anyway, you are an awesome strap maker, whichever colors you use. And de gustibus non est disputandum... Btw, I find that Greg's strap gourgeous but for the stitch color.

53 mm

Joshua has now an updated version where the flaw of the missing mark @9 has been fixed. I wonder whether the movement is still the same as before....

Your straps are awesome and this is no exception, V! But the color combo chosen by the buyer...

Burgundy/Dark brown and Brown/Yellow. Blue on anything even vaguely suspected to belong to the brownish family (like Burgundy) would be an heresy.

Hi chief, you surely mean a 051 (048 is black face and leather strap). Yes, if we don't believe the titanium thing then it might be a gen 051. Still the OP number leaves me dubious... and the 049 and 051 were the infamous "specially made for the Japan market" models...

If what the seller says is true about titanium, then that is less than a replica, it's fantasy. Most likely, it is just one of the (in)famous replicas made by the watchhonpo guys -- those watches that they tried to pass as special edition genuines especially made for the Japan market. There is no PAM with white face and titanium. The OP 6560 case number is of the PAM 070D, which is brushed SS. It might be a PAM 051. That would also give reason about the somewhat thin crown being it a 40mm model. But in this case the OP number stays wrong (unless it is a 051D), and everything the seller said about titanium is delirium. Period.

That was me. And I confirm to the last word that chieftang's single-side AR cuts out 95% of date refelections. It is another watch.