Londonboy

Ronin, I'll echo the comments above about a different case and tube. Here's a pic of my BK WM9 with a few gen bits (that I sold to another member of the rep world) that BK built new for me, I supplied all the gen bits and he put it all together. Nice collection mate

There's tales on the gen boards of people leaving a watch under a table lamp to charge the lume up and forgetting that the watch is there, and gone back to find the lume going/gone/damaged etc

Obviously depending on the length of time its exposed, the wattage of the light, and the proximity to the watch - but yes the lume can get toasted. 

BK TW with some gen bits for me.

It does to me too. The dealers won't have much cost to eat as they'll just send all these out to people that buy online and are not members of the rep forums. I won't be rushing to pick one up personally.

Of the watches listed I'd go for the no date Sub. Did someone say Doxa?

Here's a few of them, missing from the pic are a Citizen, Seikos 007, 009 and some G's.

Arsenal (the English one)

AC Milan

I took my BK GMT Transformer and went a bit further with it so I could use some gen parts, but as has been said above the gen Explorer 2's and 16710's are very doable in price terms, relatively speaking. I won't go any further with it as the money would be best put into getting a gen.

Modded GMT.

Maybe you boys in Oz could share info between each other on this subject, surely somebody must know a watch smith that works on gens that may want a little extra moolah.

I think Vac, BK, Rex and PB (and any others that I haven't worked with) aren't bad for us boys Stateside.

The title of the thread told me that he wanted to remove/change the insert so I told him the easiest way to do it.

Simple really.

Use a hairdryer to soften the glue. GL

I read that thread a while ago too, great pics, tools etc. Most people would have got crucified for doing that for sure.

Seen the all YG in person as a guy I know has one but haven't seen the all WG version except through a store window. Amazing watch but not for me - whether I had a yacht or not.

Chris, congrats mate that's a damn fine watch you have there. Superb build and kudos to the guys involved with the project.

You've had a good few weeks haven't you - in watch terms.

Wear it in good health mate.

Ask for a picture of the crystal without the gasket attached to it, the seller may be hiding an "ungenlike" edge profile.

T, nice job mate, I think it looks very good.

Having had no dealings with either of the named seller/sidekick I can't comment from that angle at all but I am very surprised that the seller/sidekick have been allowed to troll other sales threads (for reasons specified previously) and received no punishment whatsoever. Personally I'd never deal with either of them on principle now (here or anywhere else) as I've always thought these boards were a place for like minded individuals to enjoy our hobby, share our knowledge, buy and sell watches etc and to be honest in all our dealings. Imho there's enough issues with dealers without having people like this pissing on their fellow members too. Please don't sugarcoat what's happened here, the dishonesty in this instance is completely unacceptable imho.

Personally I'd agree with banning someone completely for what's happened here as it will deter others from doing the same and of course it would protect all the other members of this (and any other forum) who do act accordingly.

Like I said above - jmho.

It says 7730 in the heading and that's also stamped on the inside of the caseback. Nice watch.

Woof, stunning mate, congrats. One day I will build (get built) or buy one of them too.

The watch in gen form came originally with those hands so they wouldn't actually be wrong.

I understand you wanting the blue hands but as I doubt that the rep is a big seller I'd have to guess they won't be making any adjustments to that rep for the foreseeable future.

Otherwise, see above for the pros advice. GL.

Dutchy, a very nice collection you have there but be careful that your mate down the street doesn't get his hands on them. Cool pics.

On the forum home page scroll down until you find BK's Garage, send him a pm. GL.

Yep, there's a "down for ten minutes" note when you go to RG, it's been there a while now but it's a step in the right direction. Snap Dutchy. Enjoying my time here too.

Sneeds first pic is from at least the second version of the 1675 as it has the enlarged arrow head on the 4th hand, but the all white dial print with only "Swiss" at the bottom didn't appear until the 4th version of the 1675 in the mid 60's. It also doesn't have the full, outer circle around the minute tracks which as far as I can make out only became standard when Rolex went back to a T-25 dial in the late 60's. Those service dials sure seem to have differences to the regular, out of the box dials that came standard from the factory.

Good luck with your build Sneed.