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Really a great watch! It's just me, or the Fiddies are E-series only?

Argh, you are right! And I don't even know what it is. Please admin/mods, give me a sign!

I'll surely do (as long as my current wife will let me to -- she knows I am a terrible canasta player ). What about a game of bridge, or chess, or MtG, or a kumite?

A specifying about a Little White Lie: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showto...st&p=306245 I plaud to collectors who don't have to resort to LWL (but they don't usually have a website too, so it's really much about a collectors' thing).

Yes, 'sapphire' in watch crystals is only synthetic sapphire. There is nothing like natural sapphire here and on gens. 'Synthetic sapphire', in Andrew's dictionary, stands for: Mineral glass with [possibly] anti-scratch coating. This is not due to malafede, but to the fact that Andrew has to compete with scam sites advertising their watches as sapphire even if they are glass. We RWGers should be in knowledge of such a terminology. Rep forum members all together make for less than 10% of all Andrew's (and of any other collector who has a website as well) trades. Hope this helps.

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=43115

(Leaving out any remarks about engravings' crispness and screw color) $188 Fiddy: Asian unitas No swan neck No AR $378 Fiddy: Swiss unitas Correct swan neck AR

I confirm my 2nd option: do a fine sandpaper light job and refine with a brushing pen, just to make the scratch less eye-catching. For what will remain after the job, I agree with Carls and Clive: go live with it, it will add character to the watch, PAMs are watches made to be used.

Not at all. Really. I am just a quiet, middle-aged man, and the Whale Shark is completely harmless. Yes, it's called that way. But not a "fly", a "mosca"! (It comes from the very Italian ages of OP, before Richemont-Vendome eat them, and it stays used in its original form only). Are you even familiar with Oriana Fallaci?!? Oh my, another point for you! No, wait, I can't add another point to you. You already are out of scale. Surely I believe it. I did not actually mean to include money considerations in my remark. Just that you are able to cope with high-stress social environments, that I wouldn't ever be able to. I vowed my life to do the others good, so I get a little angry when I hear about someone whose first interest seems to obtain something to use against someone else. That on this occasion that 'something' was money-related, this makes the whole thing even more averse to my eyes, but my focus was not there, that was purely incidental, it could have been anything else. ...And yes, I am aware that I may be an alien to 80% of the human population. Actually, that is exactly the reason for my 'alien in disguise' title. Very honest and very appreciated. Personally I would add that I like the look of the PAMs, but I find them outrageously overpriced (with the possible exception of the new models with in-house movements). I can withstand to overpay one watch, not tenths, and I want tenths. Should I find PAM-like watches with no brand name, I would take them. I think I would even be happier as I would have not to worry about modding them.

Stay on queue! I already asked her to.

TK, you are @ 297! Do you really want your 3H post in this thread?!?

What steroids, ryya? Both estrogens and androgens are cholesterol-based. Out of joke (...cough...), don't you know vb is jf?

Well, this year my 'month-long break' is actually spliced in four 1-week-long (1-week-short, I would say ) breaks. 3rd instalment will be on the 2nd week of September, for a Tai Chi stage on an island, practicing 9 hours a day, and 4th instalment on 1st week of November, for scuba diving in Madagascar on the hunt for Whale Shark. No access to internet for me on those weeks, so don't worry if you will not see me around: I will not be ignoring (or even forgetting) you. Just some minor flaws like declared F-series while the 005 started with G-series (no 005F around). Oh, and a too large and misplaced mosca (the Pre-V OP logo), too. Uhm... I was not talking about gen-vs-rep owners' gazes, but about your charm. My poor English and this 'typing effect' (no visual expression, no voice pitch) seem able to kill any compliments. I'll have to restrict them and/or make them clearer... Yes, no good may come from posting our pics on a gen forum. Argh! Don't take me too harsh, but I'm glad to keep me out from environments that kind.

It depends on the contents of the package. Would you give us any more details?

I can understand your pain, lanikai. It also happens to me with my mail server, when I take too much time on typing my message. The program assumes I have gone away and it wants me to re-register, and it also wipes out all what I typed before. Now I always save my message in the clipboard before clicking on any button. ...But thanks for giving details about the procedure!

Argh, on titanium? Most likely fine sandpaper or dremeling, followed by a brushing pen for titanium. But if the scratch is really deep, then it is likely that the overall bezel shape may result modified, as you need to remove the same depth as the scratch. A compromise might be in just lightly sandpapering the scratch, so to make its border smoother end therefore less evident, even without removing it completely. Waiting for the pics.

Can't tell you enough how I appreciated this heart disclosure of yours, Clarice! -- oops, Victoria. Out of joke, the quid pro quoad thing still holds. And as you gave us your tale, I have to assume that you also might be feeling as this board gave you something too. Or that we have ears to hear, at least. And this made me especially glad. Welcome to your 1K, I bet it won't go long before your Powermax!

Sorry for being so late in chiming in, on Ferragosto (thanks for the wishes, V!) I had a 2nd instalment of my holidays and I noticed this thread just now. According with OP official catalogue, the Fiddy is AR coated. Single-side coated, I may add on his look and the general OP's attitude on AR coating. Judging on the pics, the DSN Fiddy is an excellent rep. Probably one of the best PAM reps around, almost surely the best 127 rep, and surely the best DSN rep ever. Even the engraving placement on the back is correct. Just compare this watch to the DSN's $330 PAM005 and you will get a feeling. Ok, there are some minor inaccuracies. I bet that less than 50% of the 'risti owning a Fiddy can spot them other than on a side-by-side comparison. Evildee is eagle-eyed (congrats!), and it is well known that we rep lovers can be even more able in spotting flaws than 'ristis. And if you patronize Paneristi-full environments, V, I can't believe thay can divert their eyes off from you to bring them to your watch. So, take it easy. Also great to read that Davidsen came through in the end (even if after a little encouragement from our beloved lanikai...)

What does ZING stand for?

Found a small program to fight boredom. Guaranteed virus-free. bored.zip

Yes.

Nice find! You may also want to have a look here.

Yes it seems that those concentric patterns are no difficulty to our makers. Right now I have an PAM125 rep here, with a very good concentric second subdial, and it was quite inexpensive.

Yes it is. The definitive test is trying to scratch your crystal with a hard glass or iron/steel pin. If it scratches, it is not sapphire. Less invasive tests, still good enough, based on heat conductance and electrical conductance are performed by tools I already described here.

I would never wear an Egiziano, other than on a scuba diving and just to amaze my fellow divers. And if it were a rep I suppose it would soon get flooded. But I would surely love to have one in my collection. It has been the watch that fired my curiosity for (and then my addiction to) PAM watches. On the other hand, why should the Italians sell it to the Egyptian Army only (and 50 pieces only) if it was a beautiful watch?