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A great gift to a great guy, and by an equally fantastic admin team! Well deserved... Good karma always comes around!

Swiss 7753's in these babies, methinks?

Beautiful specimens! I know these have been ongoing projects; it's nice to see them at this stage of completion! Of course, Zig's work is nothing less than perfection... I'm trying to figure out which I like more out of the pair. Tough to do since they are both very unique in their own right. The black/grey is a very nice and well balanced dial layout, however I really like the white dial's bi-compax colored subdials. Which one are you wearing today?

Looking good!

Absolutely beautiful. The best things come to those who wait...

I'm hoping one of these will be a possibility

If/when I visit other forums, I've mirrored some of my techy kind of posts on building/modding. But that's about it. General Discussion type content doesn't get mirrored.

Classic! And for you Bill, quite fitting...

One of the few that I have- A custom made robNY box. A treasured piece in my collection simply for what it is...

Really loving that 4B! Work of art!

A beautiful trio... I love em! That 202/A... Has especially grown on me as of late (makes note to self)... Fantastic as usual!

I don't recall how long it took exactly, but I did go slowly over the course of several days. You could also do a bit of an oxyclean treatment as well to add additional character to the PVD As for the edges- The coating is still present at the edges, but with a little more wear. Gives it a very nice, patina'd look.

To give PVD some character... Hit it with a cape cod, and then wear it for some natural wear and tear. An example- This is how my old DSN case started: Not a great pic, but the finish is kind of chalky, and the coating had a rather thick appearance to it. After some cape cod time... Much less chalky with a bit of a gun metal tone; a bit more sheen to the finish as well as a sort of oxydyzed look... Much better character in my opinion...

Heh heh... Mrs. Ubi would slap me upside the head faster than I can say black-book. But it's a fun thought none the less

Lani- In my opinion, it's the AD's that probably project and perpetuate this kind of image; my opinion is that the ADs have a false self perception that they are far more important than they really are, or make themselves out to be. I think they are likely to over exaggerate the prestige that their particular showroom has to offer, and hence they tend to aim for a certain demographic for clientele. If Rolex was concerned about the class of people buying their watches, I'd think that they'd go for the Patek style of marketing; MSRP your entry level pieces out of the reach of the every day common man and cater to the uber stinking filthy rich

I do think that reps may inadvertently help boost product awareness; not because they're reps, but because they are mistaken as gen. If someone happens to catch a glimpse of the watch on your wrist and it's perceived as a genuine, that may or may not influence someone's decision to buy the same watch. If they only know what they see (i.e. they are not an expert in identifying or discerning the difference between a genuine and a replica), then there's no way to really acredit that purchase of a gen to replicas directly. I do agree that potential lost sales or decreased market share are likely enough of a concern for a business to take appropriate action. However, the focus of attack is probably done at the source of production or distribution, and less concentrated at the level of consumer due to volume. It would be extremely difficult to hit each individual buyer, but at the dist or production level, it's a little easier to target for aggregation. And also a fair bit more transparent to us, the end user...

Great work as always, Tribal! Lookin' good!

gio- Looking at your posts (like the ones in the sexy avatars thread) make me want to... Well, I can't really say right here Please excuse me while I go see what Mrs. Ubi is up to at the moment

4thd!

Rest assured- If your next attempt will be with an old school MBW, it should hopefully go a little better than this one. The construction on the old MBW 5513 case is similar to gen in that the crystal is secured to the case with a retention ring. So unlike the case you have now, there will be no worries of glued bezels and crystals with an MBW. At any rate- For this particular case, you might be able to get a T-127 to fit. However, given the basis for the project, you are better off saving a gen T-127 for an MBW project if you do go that route. I might have an old MBW rep crystal in one of my bins. That might be a better choice for this project.

For generic, you can probably get something like this? Watch stands.

Holy jeebs! Now that is really quite something to see! Pretty impressive display... But I think I'd have a tough time paying up $175k for a bunch of Speedy's...

A recent Omega PO purchase I made came with a Swiss 2824... Usually, the movement as fitted makes little difference to me anyways, as I typically only use the case for my projects; movement, dial, etc. are often times replaced...

Congrats to all. Some great entries in this one... And some fantastic designs! Good stuff...