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Every watch I've posted here is a "value watch" .. the dealers do not overcharge for them, and they can be had for close to 100 bux!! The Lange has a fantastic double-barrel winding box with a 80+ hour reserve. The IWC F A Jones has a sublime engraved movement, and the sunburst dial on the Glashutte is hypnotizing in the sun. If you wear a Crazy Hours, you will be approached by people all the time asking what it is and how it works.

Why didn't you just use the x-ray laser in the Graham (press the giant lever) to disintegrate the offending boffin?

That sounds great, but please don't encourage them to double or triple the price

It looks great on your wrist!

Thanks for this great pictorial

The 7750 type watch movement has over 200 parts, and requires a watchmaker who knows it intimately in order to achieve ultimate satisfaction. There are a few forum members here in the continental USA who can do this for you, but I would not know of a normal watch shop in the Northeast to handle this. If / When the watch starts to act oddly, then send it off to a trusted Forum watchsmith .. the lowest you can expect to pay for a full service of this chronograph monster is $175 .. then you should be perfectly happy for 4 or 5 years (the watch oil dries up over time in any watch) Individual watchsmith pricing varies wildly.

The Cartier SeaTimer today .. I found the cabochon from the crown, and re-attached it!

Aw! Take a break from the hobby for a little while, until you feel the urge! If you flog the unconscious horse ... you might beat it dead

beautiful madness

This is a document, so why mess around with tinker-toy 3rd party file hosts .. I uploaded it to Google Docs Either read it in situ or download it on the File menu.

The bezel insert marker Triangle is perfectly straight, the insert sits a fraction of a mm too high, the pearl has no dome, and the Helium Escape Valve is a little incorrectly shaped. Those are the tells on Trevor. The bezel insert marker triangle is too curved, and the hour markers on the dial are too fat. Those are the tells on the Noobfactory.

I was reading that the heat and pressure required to create a black diamond can not exist on the Earth, and as such, all black diamonds are sourced from the super-nova explosions of stars. I thought that was interesting.

Why not build a nice 1680 Submariner franken. It's classic and a gen is only about $4000-$10,000 USD .. so you could "pull it off" credibly, since you already own a "$9,000" replica (the DSSD) ... Or a 1665 Sea Dweller .. same price range .. Don't go crazy and build a Red dial .. go with a Great White.

Use Search and look for "Ronin's Rail" ..... on second thought I have that thread bookmarked in my browser. Go HERE

I remember now ... it was Philippe Dufour and he was creating a 1-off "Simplicity" based watch for BaselWorld.

Here is the size difference.

At least with a Quartz watch, you always have the correct time

agreed.

I have had the non-chrono version for a year or more and it's a wonderful piece. The DLC coating is very strong.

You need to sell it on and get the 42mm version. This will fix your problem.