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Some people like Hello Kitty. At the OP (BM) ... I wore my ultimate non-chrono today, and yes these are great watches. Just don't ever use the dive bezel

I was looking at SS, white gold and solid gold aftermarket bezels just recently ... someone here provided the link .. was it at WHO ??

Sounds like it's dirty and needs a regular service. $70 to $100 depending on who does it. There's a man in Texas for that and one in the mid-west as well. Texas man has a 4 week wait. mid-west man normally turns it around in a few days.

fair play to ye

Love love the imagery, Hike

I assume you have been overcharged a lot for replica watches. A $330 watch is a very nice watch indeed. The only reason you should be paying 500+ is if it's a Tourbillion movement. Don't feel bad .. thats what these forums are for .. to teach you about replicas and to prevent you from being robbed of $1000 for a $200 watch.

You seem like an angry person. I apologize to everyone for setting him off.

That's pretty much what the tutorials say .. yep.

When you claim someone is the best lumer you know and throw out a video of a PAM dial being lumed ... I would ask you the same question. Your claim may be entirely true, but think about how you are making your point. It doesn't make sense.

For the polished areas, use Cape Cod cloth .. do not use it on the brushed areas or you will polish them and ruin the finish. 3M scotch-brite re-finishing pads for the brushed surfaces. If you want to go nuts on this, buy a Dremel tool, jewelers rouge, appropriate dremel tips/wheels and go crazy. There are at least three excellent tutorials on watch finish care here on the forum that I can think of. Search it. Some members even have them linked in their forum signatures.

Um .... TheZigmeister. That is All. Re-luming a PAM?! No. lume an un-lumed FM Crazy. NO. Re-lume a Slevin timer insert!!!

You are compressing the air in the chamber 3x .. so the tiny bubbles trapped in the crevices of the watch will expand to 3x their size when you release the pressure and conduct the test ... so YES that is perfectly normal. If the watch was leaking from inside, 3x the internal volume of the case would come rushing out as a continuous bubble avalanche. Thats a lot of bubbles.

That would not fix the Clark/gen crystal issue, tho .. the PT window is laughably small and too far to the left .. it's not the wheel's fault.

There is a company in the UK (London) which buys Rolex watches, PVD coats them black and re-sells them as Pro-Hunter watches ... you can get any modern Rolex from them in black, I believe. Just search on a dealer site for "HUNTER" like this ---->>>> Precious Time hunter search Or search on a dealer site for "BAMFORD" ... I got 3 hits on PT for bamford.

There is a watchsmith in Texas who is famous for his work on 775x movements for forum members, and here's a recent service for a *** NEW *** watch .. full of grease, fibers, and shards of metal. Service of an average 775x movement You may need an acct on RWI to view this.

The Milgauss GV represented on Rolex's home page is a computer generation and does not represent the physical watch at all. It's the marketing department's wet dream. Not real. If you go to the Rolex Forums and look at gens for sale, you will see that the crystal is Coke Bottle Green Gen GV for sale

Yes but the chubb dial has always bothered the CRAP out of me, which is why I own a Zigmeister lumed and serviced Trevortime. I don't look at the HEV .. I look at the dial. When I broke the ceramic insert in the Trevor I replaced it with the superior Noob insert.

I would hate to see what the ARM looks like if the steel watch is so gashed. The guy probably has to wear watches on his johnson by now.

Patina refers to how something looks when it is old. Wood .. paint ... plastic ... it all looks different as it gets older. It develops a patina. "the look of age"

Im afraid you are sadly mistaken.

The Swiss and the Asian 775x movements have 200+ parts in them. As-delivered in a replica watch, you have no guarantee at all that either a Swiss or Asian is clean or oiled. They are probably dirty and dry no matter which you buy. People who buy Swiss or Asian 775x movements in replica watches are strongly urged to service them as soon as possible, and then after that you can probably relax for 3 to 5 years until it's time to service again. This is just simple reality. You buy a mega-complicated chrono movement and you have to splash out extra dollars to care for it.

Since they cross the International date line .. wouldn't you get your watch the day BEFORE you ordered it??

The ceramic insert triangle at 12 0'clock: Gen - it has such a slight curve that from certain angles it looks straight but it is not. It has a curve. Trevor - too straight .. a perfectly triangular triangle .. plus the insert is too tall. It should be recessed within the bezel but it is not. Noob - too curved at the top but better than a couple of years ago .. maybe it'll get better in the future. The HE Valve: Trevor - has always been wrongly shaped. it's a bit too small. Noob - has looked darn good for years The Pearl: Trevor - No clear "sapphire" dome over the lume Noob - Much improved over time! A very nice dome. Used to be a bulbous joke. See Noob v3... The Dial: Trevor - Hour marker "white gold" rings are too slim .. but closer to Gen than Noob Noob - Hour markers too chubby but greatly improved from past years. Perhaps a re-lume could fill the cups a bit more and reduce this effect. I am certainly no luming expert but it makes sense. The Clasp: Trevor - more prone to have the safety clasp stand up proud of the rest of the assembly Noob - lookin good .. much improved over previous years The crown guards are different too, but hard to describe. Suffice to say that it's just another variable. What can we take away from all this? Certainly that the Noobfactory improves their watches over time and the factory which makes the Trevortime watch doesn't. What's the best DSSD out there? I'd say a Trevor dial in a Noob case. Unless my guess about being able to correct the fat markers with more lume is correct .. then just re-lume a Noob watch to make the hour marker rings look thinner.

The TrevorTime DSSD has just as many flaws as the Noobfactory DSSD ... just different flaws. You have to choose which flaws you want to buy.