theblueprince

Loved it when it was first revealed. Steadily gone off it now though, would rather build a vintage-frnaken or get a gen vintage one. Not impressed with the movement either.

+2! Very nice. Good crown position for once on these.

Great story, pics and info

Orchi has an agenda and seems to be able to make all the dumb masses follow it. There are a few who know better on TRF and VRF. Prob a half dozen or so very knowledgable guys on TRF and a few more on VRF. Sadly even these guys tend to not post so much anymore as they're fed up of all the BS and idiots (esp on TRF) who post utter nonsense day in day out.

Steer clear.

What's the point though? Doesn't tell you anything you don't know and doesn't prove anything either. Waste of $9.95!

Get the movement serviced and the upper module gears graphited and it should last longer. Then you can do things yourself to make it last longer like hacking/stopping the movement when you're not wearing it (e.g. overnight) and only wearing it say 3 days a week instead of seven. Damage limitation with these basically.

I expect we'll see the rep next Spring/ early summer then

Nice retirement present for the old guy who owned it

I guess the problem with the rep would be the secs@3.......meaning a 7750 with an upper module like the Daytona, ROO, Porto etc.

Popped in my local co-op supermarket today and found Glenfidich 12yo at half price WIN.

Someone posted pics with the back off in a forum. Movement looks tiny in the case, doesn't look solid or high quality, stem looks very thin and spindly etc. Looks made to a price very obviously. The DD (Dubois/Depraz) module is what sits on the standard ETA 2893 movement and provies the chrono functions. Search the web for never ending discussion on it vis a vis reliabilty, servicability etc. Basically 99% of watchsmiths won't touch it if it breaks and will just replace the whole module ($$$). Basically you'd be [censored] to have one break out of warranty (after 2 years, or if you bought it out of warranty) and then send it to Rolex who proceed to charge you for a new chrono module or even new movement. All speculation right now of course but it's basically the same movement and module as many other manufacturers use.

Nice snipe! Guess that AD has lost the other customer for life though! lol.

There's one in NYC on Ebay too.......in fact i think it's the same one looking at the pics. They don't seem to be selling for a premium, which is nice. List is £2690 in the UK. I have one on order but after seeing the movement/case pics with the caseback off (which isn't pretty), and of course all the discussion about the DD module itself I'm not sure if I want it anymore. Wuh.

Just amazing. Great work/piece

Parted out, mixed n matched and fake cased with gen movements and redials are getting more and more common on Ebay. Unless you can see pics of the watch from every angle and internally I'd steer clear of a lot of these vintage pieces from a lot of sellers now.

These seem to come up on Ebay quite often. There was a near new Luminova one a while ago for about

The BK modded WM9 YM is the same price roughly as the direct from WM9 one. There will be very little difference. As for Joshua getting a better one, that is amusing and imo, complete dealer sales talk BS.

Yes for sure the "others" are doing it too through other multiple Ebay id's. Yuki's been caught out though by using the same email address for PP payments as that he uses on his site and his yukiwatch Ebay id so there is no doubt whatsoever it is him. The others aren't so obvious. The case sets do indeed pass inspection at RSC's (confirmed by owners/buyers to have happened) as they have correct cloned serial numbers on. Like I said a lot of people have known it's been going on for quite some time but now certain VRF and TRF chaps have been caught out and got the bit between their teeth to out these sellers and publicise what is going on. As you can imgaine there are multiple reasons why sellers, collectors, modders etc have known about this but choosen to keep quiet.

The problem is that as well as openly and honestly just selling refinished dials and rep parts, cases etc Yuki has multiple other ebay id's and is selling his rep cases in and as original vintage Rolex watches and a fair few people seem to have bought them over a number of years. A lot of people knew this was going on but for various reasons have kept quiet. Now a lot of people on gen forums are finding this out and are obviously not happy, quite rightly, as Yuki has ripped them off and is continuing to fraudulently sell rep cases as genuine Rolexes.

Hottest female Daytona wearer is Kate Moss. Her daily beater is a 6263.

Someone posted with good authority on RG a few weeks ago that he's very ill back in the UK now having had a leg amputated.

The GTXL as shown is good but the reps always seem to have the droopy tail on the 2 of the 12 and that bugs me.

Glad i ordered without the rehaut engraving then which won't be affected by the flaw so no extra delay

Great work, strange outcome!