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Didn't wear any watch today; must admit, I felt like I was naked. But tomorrow... I'll probably go with the ol' Daytona.

Does it ever end? No, sir... It does not The love for vintage just gets stronger, methinks. Great pics!

For some strange reason today, I got a very strong urge to put together a very unique, limited edition 1 of 1 never before seen watch. After brainstorming for about 5 minutes or so, the concept was born, and I went to work immediately! Ladies and gents, it gives me great pleasure to introduce the FOLEX UBI-ARINER! Ta-daaaa!

Those markers @ 8:00 seem to have kicked back a little too much on ol' Grandpa's cough syrup...

Very informative posting! Great stuff!

Glad I didn't pay those prices for my Daytona!

I love my davidsen Pre-A 009. For the money, it's an excellent buy!

I got into this stuff initially out of curiosity, which turned into a hobby of trying to build the most accurate examples possible using genuine parts where applicable. Much like someone building a model ship, or putting a replica car together. The fun for me is starting with a blank canvas, and tracking down the right parts for the watch to get it as close to the genuine article as possible. I don't try and pass my watches off for gen, but rather I explain the procedure in which I built my watch from parts. Usually quite the conversation topic amongst friends, family and even sometimes random people whom I don't know.

I've always been tempted by these beauties, but the spare parts issue raised by Rob has always made me think twice...

Have a look at the back of the watch where the collars for the pushers seat to the case: Should be fairly quick and easy to see if one of the recesses is cut too deep, or if one of the collars is too short...

It's possible that the top pusher's base may have been cut too short, or the recess for the threaded collar to sit in has been cut too deep.

davidsen has some T-SWISS-T dials

Got this as a gag-gift souvenier from my Dad on his last trip to NYC... It's quartz movement is super accurate

Chris, Well said, and yes, updating a 'Best Sub' list would indeed be a full time job in and of itself. These things are updating constantly, and compounded by the many different factories from which they originate. You can blink an eye and most everything will have probably changed already with the next update to supercede... It's a dynamic world with reps... The only thing that stays relatively static is that you can count on change Randy

What's this 'Alexis'? Some sort of rating scale?

Typically these watches carry the Chinese movements. Take for example... The advertisement I saw featured a Daytona-esque watch with day and date subdials (I think it was a steinhauer). Looked like a Canal Street quality case, and overall had the appearance of being a low cost, over priced rep watch with a different logo on the dial. And, I wouldn't doubt it one bit if it came from the same factory as an equally low quality rep...

Very nice and congrats! There's nothing like owning the real thing!

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I think I've seen the Klaus Kobec watches advertised in Car and Driver magazines... Along with Steinhauer. Both advertise the same thing; watches with an implied value of several thousands of dollars selling for a fraction of the cost (I think the slogan is something to the effect of '$189 on the wrist, $3,000 in your pocket'). For me, personally, I think I'd prefer to buy some vintage Seikos or reps for the same money.

Looking good, Mark! That's one beauty of a movement!

As BT mentioned... Both are 100%. $2400 is a smokin deal for the 16610...

78350/19... Dat's what you want...

Very interesting! Learn something new every day...

The rehaut is the metal ring that surrounds the dial and sits beneath the crystal (it also provides a lip for the crystal and/or gasket to seat against). I've marked it in red in this pic...

Sweet bike, Warr! And an equally impressive collection of quality PAMs!! I am eyeballing that WM 3646...