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  7. Chanel J12 anyone with any experience?

    in General Discussion

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    Mrs. Ubi has had one on her wrist daily for the last 6 years. She is... Not kind... to her watches and surprisingly, it's held up quite spectacularly despite the abuse.

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    The only thing I would caution against- Do not drop the watch. Prior to this one, she had a 38mm J12 and it did meet it's demise on the tile floor...

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  13. ANOTHER Big Crown Build?

    in The Rolex Area

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    I think you will find that, as the market for pristine, all original pieces shrinks, you will see more and more of these all gen built examples being pieced together; worn, beat down and less than perfect parts such as dials, hands, etc. will be replaced with better condition specimens and the result will be the influx of good condition pieces emerging into the market that just weren't born that way from the start. These pieces have been finding their way into the big auction houses, and I am sure there will be more to come. The problem being that the minutiae of each watch/ref was not well catalogued from the manufacturer and therefore, it is hard to know if such and such ref with s/n xyz came with this 2 line red depth dial or not from the factory. There are general time spans and windows for known references to have certain dial types that can be narrowed down by serial range (e.g. Double Red SDs MK 1 - whatever), but nothing that provides definitive provenance that a watch was born with a specific dial/attribute(s).

    As for my personal thoughts on these 'voldemort' dials... They are pretty dang good. I know I love the one in my BC, quite a lot! Does it bother me that it's a redial? Not at all. But then again, it's in a personal build for my own enjoyment; not meant to fool any auction houses ;) I do suppose that such dials really skate the fuzzy line and I can understand why the VRF folks are non too pleased about them; they're certainly not aftermarket/fake dials and cannot be categorized as such; taking into account the manner and process that they are refinished, the results are scary good; not even comparable to a typical redial job, that's for sure! These dials live in a grey area in my mind; unique and with their own intrinsic value and worth... Maybe almost like a myth of some sort...

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