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I'm a Navi fan, but the badly recessed date wheel really puts me off... Can you improve that without too much effort?

No, not really... I've never been a fan of nato straps anyway. I only occasionally like them on vintage Rollies.

Ist that thing real? Uhm, I mean the watch of course... Seriously - does such a model exist? Or has Heidi modded a gen PAM? LOL!

I always liked the polished-middle-link bracelets better compared to the completely brushed ones. So, yeah, I like it! EL fitting looks pretty good, too!

I think he's on holiday... Cheers, W.

Hey mate! You can make it in 4-5 hours if you fly with Air Berlin via Majorca. Check it out! Cheers, Whatever

Ouch... sorry, Cats! I also nearly made that mistake the other day (with a hire car)...

Oh great, finally a German GTG! I'm in of course! I'm really looking forward to seeing all you guys in person!

I understand there are some problems with WM9 atm. But anyway it seems a bit strange to me that you register her and post this thread 5 minutes later (your one and only post). Looks like you only registered to post this - well, you can say you want to warn us but nevertheless this seems a bit fishy to me...

Thanks By-Tor. I know even if someone here has fitted gen endlinks that doesn't mean they will fit for my case, too. But I though I'd give it a try if there are positive experiences here... Rep endlinks are hard to get. I tried with a complete new bracelet but the fit wasn't any better.

Hi! I'm not too satisfied with the endlink fitting on my SMP - anyone tried gen ELs? Will they fit? Cheers, Whatever

Hi! I'm a frequent flyer in Europe - no one ever checks the watch on your wrist! If you don't carry a bunch of fakes in your suitcase or hand luggage, no prob. The one on your wrist is safe. Cheers, Whatever

No, you're not alone there, mate... that's part of the game for sure. And that's not what I meant by "fool others". I never try to pass my watch off as gen - if anyone asks, I always say it's a rep ("but a pretty good one", haha). Anyway, I sure do like the feeling that some people might recognize the watch and I also like to be seen with it. But I would never say it's gen if someone asks or even worse try to fool my friends. The worst thing of course is trying to sell a rep as gen... and I honestly hope noone here on this forum has ever tried to do that or will ever do that... Cheers, W.

That's exactly my point! After all we're doing this for ourselves, not to fool anyone. At least I hope so...

You're right of course, but personally I don't care too much about how close to the gen a rep is (OK, if it's not TOO obvious...), I would never worry about the Rehaut engraving for instance - to me it looks great. I do hate those little imperfections like a spot on the datewheel, a slightly misaligned index or a faulty lume dot though... All my friends know that my reps are reps - and whenever they take a closer look at one, they pick a little imperfection like those mentioned above and say "oh yeah, chinese... not even close... look at that...". i really try to convince them how good those reps actually are for the price, but you know... So I always try to make my reps look technically as perfect as possible. If it's not spot on with the gen - well, no one will notice anyway except gen owners and RWG members...

Wow, that's a nice one! OK, so Domi can do it... let's see how expensive it's going to get... How about that DW overlay - anyone know if a ETA DW will fit? Thanks, Whatever

Thanks freddy and kbh! I shot Domi a PM and asked him if he has ever fitted a gen ETA 2893 into a GMT IIc. Anyway, you still have to use that date wheel overlay, right? No way to fit an ETA date wheel? Are date wheel overlays available for this model somewhere?

Looking good... What modifications did you have to do to fit the 2893-2 in it? Another member told me he had problems fitting the GMT hand because of the canon pinion height...

That is indeed strange... normally bad magnification is one of the easiest "tells" of rep Rollies. Now with the GMT IIc it seems to be the other way around... someone who doesn't own the gen would probably always think the gen is the fake one when compared to the rep... lol I don't think they fixed that for v3 - but I haven't seen a good enaough pic of a v3 to compare it. What bothers me atm is the bad datewheel overlay on mine. Anyone changed that? Are ETA datewheels possible on this model? After all it's supposed to be a 2836 clone.

Hey mate! I would just walk in on a local small watchsmith and plainly ask him if he would work on a rep. Just don't go to a big AD... any local small watchsmith should be fine though. Cheers, Whatever

Hi folks, has anyone modded his GMT IIc? If so, I'd love to see what has been done... post some pics! Personally I can't think of any reasonable mods, that's why I'm asking. Cheers, W.

Already reported it yesterday. Still up and running...

Are you sure this is a rep?

Can't see anything on those pics... somehow it does look strange though. How can one possibly think to sell a high value watch with pics like that???

Does this one (on the pics) have lugholes?? Didn't see that at first, but now that Andy mentioned it... it certainly looks like that. Strange...