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Almost 100% chance that the "blue AR" is a reflection of the blue sky.

Good luck today, Cats For me, it's the IWC ...

Just PM user name KB and reference this thread ...

The Katt's watch repair shop is in MN, and normally you'd simply USPS Priority Mail him the watch. He's a trusted repair technician on another replica forum and I've used his services several times. GKLONER at GMAIL dot COM is the address you need to use. But as GBOGH says ... if the watch is not meant to be a diving watch, then no .. of course it's not waterproof, as much as my IWC 7 Days or my Senator Sixties is not waterproof. They are not supposed to be; they are dress watches.

"Fully winding" is about 40 complete turns of the crown. Is that how many you are doing? And no, it doesn't not signify that you received an Asian movement. Asian movements are almost perfectly identical to the Swiss movements, so why would it's origin mater for with regard to the power reserve? The fact which has eluded you, is that all movements ... Swiss or Asian ... in a replica watch are badly oiled and probably dirty internally. It does not matter which you pay for. The standard "every 5 year service" should run you 80 to 100 dollars, and as it's name implies .. is good for 5 years. All mechanical watches need this. The oil evaporates on it's own. Should you pay $$$$ for tracked/registered return shipment to China, and have the watch fixed for "free" there over the course of two months, or pay for the service at a trusted watch technician ... this choice is obvious.

You made these overlays before my time here. Can you briefly tell the story of how you made them? I love the thought that went into your custom HeV insert. Now that you have brushed it to differentiate it between the case and the 'valve' it is very good.

Now I feel terrible that my new 1665 has your great custom overlay, and you had to use an MBK overlay on your own watch.

That appears to be a domain camper site. No longer a valid URL ... just some scumbag sitting on the domain, hoping to sell it to someone.

I've had good results buying cocktail and costume jewelry at Stauer.com. They sell lab created precious stone and genuine semi-precious stone jewelry. Don't pay full price. They rotate their items onto deep discount sales. My wife loves her massive citrine necklace, among other semi-precious stone necklaces, and her lab made canary diamond cocktail ring.

Is it not possible to have Apache, or whatever you use here, disable external hot links for images? That would be the easiest way to prevent blatant hot-linking

Looking into this, it seems that once the dial painters were instructed to not eat the radium and were given rudimentary protective clothing there was not another case of radium caused illness from 1920 until production ceased in 1968. So it seems pretty darn safe to use, even with 1920s era gloves and handling it directly for decades as a profession. Research on the "radium girls" at argonne national labs determined that lifetime exposures of 1000x natural levels produced no ill effects in those women.

The women in the watch factories applied the radium lume with paint brushes. To make a super fine point on the brush they would lick it with their tongue over and over throughout the work day, eating huge quantities of radium. They didn't become deathly ill by simply working with it; they ate it daily.

Oh! And yes; if tritium escapes into the atmosphere, it does readily combine with the air to form molecules of radioactive water. The only way I know of to aquire tritium is to purchase commercial EXIT signs, which contain quite a bit of the stuff, so that they may glow in the event of a power outage inside your building.

Our modders here can and have created custom modern luminova mixes which are colored to appear as any "flavor" of aged tritium as the owner desires from burned yellow to creamy tan and brown. They will also at your request dim down the modern luminova to recreate the faint glow of a 50 year old tritium dial. Oh and thank you for the interesting chemistry knowledge.

It sounds like some people in this thread think the luminous paint on the hour markers and hands are tritium. That is not the case. Tritium is a gas. Tritium is mixed with a luminous paste to make the paint for the dial and hands. The incredibly small radioactivity of the tritium (it can not penetrate the watch crystal or your skin) activates the luminous material of the paste and makes it glow, in the same way that light makes luminova lume glow. That is why you can still "charge" the lume of a dead old tritium watch. It is the luminous paint that glows, not the dead tritium. So you are asking why "tritium" ages so differently but that is the wrong question. It is the binder of the paint that yellows. Tritium is a gas and it certainly does not "discolor". Why does any paint binder discolor .. It depends on what it's made from and what it is exposed to over time.

That makes perfect sense, if the gaskets are fresh and un-crushed.

It's on a NATO on my wrist, of course! I swapped the bracelet onto an MBK 1665 Franken I commissioned from Highoeyazmuhdee. It still runs like a top and is my most comfortable watch. Thanks for the awesome built, W0lf.

So lost packages are opened, and if they are worthless and the owner can not be determined from the contents of the mail piece, they are destroyed. Items of estimated value over $25 are held for 3 months, then auctioned. Registered Mail, Express Mail, and and Insured packages are held for 6 months then auctioned. It's all held in two warehouses, and catalouged so if you head to your post office and apply for a "USPS Mail Recovery Center Search Request" they will search the warehouse catalog for your stuff. read here http://blog.stamps.com/2012/05/29/how-to-find-a-lost-usps-letter-or-package/

Ok then I will help you: Im not in the EU but there is a famous watch repair guy / modder in Germany. His name is Domenico - His contact email is wilerwetta@googlemail.com

Actually, Congress passed a law which forced the Post Office to pre-pay 40 Billion dollars into their own employee pension fund, for no well defined reason. Completely unheard of in either the private or governmental sector. They just said "you have to pay 40 billion dollars". That is why they are "going broke."

Yes Watch Eden specializes in quartz!

Stay away from quartz chronos since the subdial spacing is always terrible. Btw: knowing that all mechanical watches need a 100-250 dollar service every three to five years, why collect watches at all?

A reasonably priced watch repair person could probably fix your clone for around 80 USD.

My daughter baked and decorated this for me today.