thogaa

I was thinking about making a New Year's resolution, but what the heck -- why tamper with perfection?

Anyways. Postman Pat woke me up and gave me this. Indeed a nice man.

Sweet Sister Sadie this 29M is a beauty

Hey, have a great New Year's Eve. Remember to drive carefully, arrive home safely, and don't embarrass yourself. In other words, make sure you're sobered up, buckled up, and zipped up.

My mistake. I compared to the wrong one on Josh's site

Here's the right one:

http://www.1-pc8838.com/0rldv00108-6263pn-ssss-white-asian-venus-p-10138.html

Cartel watch versus the watch posted

Can you do a close up of the dial. I've asked my dealer and he says the dials haven't changed

This has happened so often to me, that I have made a habit of loc titeing everything, checking movement hold screws, loc tite rotor screw hand loosing that silly cap over the rotor screw (on several rolex clones) or it will eventually fall off. also loc tite your bracelet screws and grease up any gaskets before having your local pressure test the watch. That is now standard procedure after loosing half a dozen watches to water, movement failure and the whole damn thing simply falling apart.

The rotor screw in my DSSD I busted and had to superglue a small rod to the screw head - secure the screw in loc tite (careful not to put it in the bearings) and brake the rod loose after a couple of hours. This might not be the watch makers procedure but it worked for me and the rotor is still secure after two years of daily beating.

Loc tite is your friend

I hope you get it fixed

T

This one fooled me. I noticed the lower sub dial wasn't bleeding into the minutes and correct spacing between the top ones. It's hard to tell that the lower subdial is actually slightly smaller.

Still don't get why they just move the lower hand and make the dials like gen. That would be a killer rep for the money

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Thank you RWG, cause I O U

Looks great to me. I especially like the fingerprint on the crystal

Exhibit A

The lug holes look huge!

Nice one though.

E

Lug holes have some Black spray paint inside - looks worse than they are. Might have over cooked it a bit with 1.5mm drill though

This is what it looked like when it was new:

And off course decades later it shows sign of wear. But not all bad for an almost 40 year old watch.

Perhaps I should list it on eBay?

- Nah just kidding.

Half way through beating this watch (Cartel 1655 eta rolex dressed mov) up I was regretting my action

but I think it turned out pretty nice.

You like or is it over the top?

Cheers

T

Surprisingly great on my 7 3/4 inch monkey wrist

Check out ChiMan12's thread to see what's involved in getting a gen-spec dial to fit a Sea-Gull-powered Daytona rep.

The spacing of all three subdials is correct after modding. However, the ST-19 is a bigger movement than the Valjoux 72, and consequently won't fit in a gen-spec Daytona case. The Valjoux 7736 is another movement with correct subdial spacing, but too big to fit.

thogaa: Sea-Gull ST-19 = Venus 175 = "Lemania"*

*No relation to any actual Lemania.

Thank ya, Sir

This is way they pulled it back!

This info Comes from one of the best dealers out there!!!

The inner movt securing system have some problems... it is a batch problem.. ..and CNY is early this year.. So I rather dont collect orders and risk having to drag further to after CNY..

I got that message too. Must be what happened - he never lied to me before

How come the lower subdial doesn't look too low on this one?

Fu*/#%ck!!!!......I paid 210.00 for a rubberb straps.......i cant believe it

Sent from my SGS2

Without clasp

where the watch come from?

+1 Where did you get that?

Put'm straight on ebay

I thought they did....

Venus 75 = seagull?

Warning: Noob content ahead:

I'm curious to know why aren't they using seagull movement for a proper vintage daytona?

Seems like the subdial spacing is allright?

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5891494be2

And another mystery to me: Why won't they make a proper vintage daytona out of the latest Cartel 6263 - seems to me they need to make the buttom subdial closer to center - it's faux anyway so why is it placed too damn low?

Anyhow CNY will come first

That's just crazy. How much would the whole cow be worth?

Pictures would have been nice but great review anyways. Thanks

Better fit?

http://www.ebay.com/...=item2c5fb11a47

The launch has been canceled apperently due to problems with the case manufacturing

I guess we are going to get side by pictures of the SDSD with a gen M serial. lets see if these are any better...

We are going to get or we are going to have to get?