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I've a Narikaa 45mm which I'm pretty pleased with. How are these in comparison - gen Swiss ETA? Nice! What sort of price differential are we looking at?

correction - probably a 20mm one. Standard Omega Seamaster bracelet...!

Having just taken up rollerblading (I'm 36, and the only reason I did was my 6 year old has just got a pair and demanded I did too!) I broke a pin on the bracelet of my gen Seamaster yesterday when I fell over, stopped myself on my watch hand and put pressure on the strap. I've changed these before, but don't have any spare split pins to do it again. Last time I went to a watch repair stand they claimed they were too weird and wonderful to have instock and would need ordering from Omega. The decent watch shops near me have Rolex, Omegas and Panerais but none keep any spares - anyone any tips for getting a couple of spare pins easily, quickly and cheaply? I'm in the UK. Happy to change myself (it's a bugger of a job hence wanting a couple so I have a spare!) Cheers guys Ric

Well, what do you know? Got one of these I'm my car toolbox for treeatibg surface rust: tried it out and it works great! Thanks!

Reg/Narikaa. He's great. Try one of his Planet Oceans for 68 quid as a tester, they're brilliant.

Guys, what's the best way of getting some scratches out of the brushed metal bits on a Narikaa PO rep? I've tried the rough side of dishwashing pads and it's not enough. Any suggestions anyone?

That's beautiful. Do you mind me asking where from/how much? Looks bloody lovely, that.

That's gorgeous <looks sadly at standard PO rep on wrist!> Where did you get the strap from?

I'm very, very happy with it. It's flawless, and the strap is surprisingly great, too. I've used an emery board to take a couple of sharpish edges off the titanium case (damn, titanium's hard!) and I've been wearing it a lot recently. Can't praise getatwatch enough, he's built me a custom at the same price as off the peg. Definitely worth the extra for the superlume, and suggest going for his "handcut" leather straps as they're particularly thick and luxorious! I've had it on one wrist and a gen white-face Luminor on the other wrist courtesy of a mate and I have to say - I kind of prefer mine....! I'm sure you'll love yours. Re the date thing - you mean on my SMP? Yes, saw that and all appears well now I've stuck to that. Still not sure if you can actually *damage* anything if you don't do this but having not wanted to risk it, I've just been changing date outside of that window and it's worked fine for me so far, ta. Ric

Sourced from Getatwatch as a custom job. Titanium case, sapphire glass, superb strap and superlume sandwich dial and hands. This is the lume vs my gen SMP: What do you guys reckon? Ric

Heard from him, have gorgeous watch back and a rep Mont Blanc pen by way of a sorry for the delay! Great guy, turns out he's been v busy prior to going off on another far east trip. Anyway, highly recommended. Ric

Guys, got a Planet Ocean from Narikaa 11th Sept. It had a missing pearl so I sent it back, and the guy was great about getting a new replacement out by return post. This arrived and on the 18th the new one's date advance failed. Sent it back, he confirmed receipt on 21st Sept and sent to his watchsmith. Followed up and got a response on the 5th and then the 15th Oct saying watchsmith pretty busy, then not heard anything else since. Anyone know if he's on holiday or something? Ric

worth talking to getatwatch. the one that came with mine (black, white stitching, handcut) is *awesome*. very thick, very soft, very nice. he's cheap, too....

oxidise? as in filing it off will show unoxidised, different colour titanium so I need to do something to get it to match? I'd presumed it'd be like aluminium and cover itself with oxide but maybe not after thinking about it...