alt.watch.obsessive

I love the Onion. I have the RSS feed at the top of my homepage above various Wall Stree Journal type headlines. Every now and again I see a crazy headline and think it's real before I remember it's the Onion. Cheers.

The problem is that all the fakes use more or less the same aqua lung dial. I'm not sure why they don't do one of the more classic dials, especially since this is (I believe) a 41-42mm case. I have seen gens with no space between the "no" and the "radiations" but if I were making a fake, I would also put a space there so it doesn't look like an error. BTW, I contacted phong about buying just the case so I could put in a gen dial, but he would not sell anything but the whole watch.

I don't think he's trying to fool anyone, he just has to play dumb to list it on Ebay. People are willing to pay $1000 for "Swiss Grade A" replicas until they find places like this.

Can I ask a question about the superlume? In the second close-up of the dial, it looks as if it has been hand applied like a relume so that each hour marker is a little domed. Is my perception accurate? Would a genuine dial have this feature, or should it be flat? My concern is that the superlume is a relume over a factory dial and will look as such. Just asking...not trying to cause trouble. Cheers. Edit to say I could be completely wrong about what a gen dial looks like.

The CG is a trademark, like a logo. I believe they can protect it essentially forever unless a court decides that the trademark shouldn't have been granted. (It's a trademark because they were able to get this status...most CGs or design aspects would not be trademarks).

OK, it's not just me then. If it is "wrong" I have to give the seller credit for showing it.

Everything looks good to me except the "Officine Panerai Firenze" signature in yellow. Does it really look this "handwritten"? This is a 111 E by the way. Thanks!

Hi Woody, See if you just bumped one "coil" over or into another where it may be stuck. If so, you can try to pop it back into place with the screw driver. Nothing to lose if you're going to swap out the movement anyhow. Good luck.

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That's too funny!

Well add me to the list of folks who want one. Anyone with an extra dial please send me a PM and I'll take it off your hands. Good work whoever did this!

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Dial print looks the same as on my rep Aqua Lung...I'll go with the dial being a reproduction? Ah..Phong. Nice. Bet the serial number is 301069

Dave, If you can go to 5500 I would look for a JLC Master Compressor Geographic from a reliable seller on Ebay (or similar). Covers dress/sport, unique movement, no rep out there, good 42mm size, actually useful if you travel or invest. Really everything but a visible movement. At any rate, have fun!

Do NOT spend that much on a watch unless it is perfectly accurate. The Mullers are the only solid gold I can recall that are really accurate. Checkout the Sunset currently available.

Nail clipper and snip it. For small changes, use a file.

Left hand movement, right hand screwdriver pressing the release button, teeth pulling crown

The only thing required to move the date to 6 is to print the wheel differently. There wouldn't be any gears involved (he says having never seen the movement in question).

Here's my guess... This is one of those everybody wins things right?

I assume a pyramid drawn looking from the side doesn't count

There's a point where a rep with a few gen parts becomes a gen with a few "aftermarket" parts. I think this is the latter. Very nice.

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"Further proof of how much they rely on us." Yup.

Nice! Have you tried dremmeling out the midpoint of the CG's so they look more round when viewed from the side? I did this on an SSD and it really helped. To get it to look more like this...

If only they'd once built 300 watches for the Italian Navy. I know, I know, but I can't resist taking a crack!