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Hugo Alves

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  1. and BTW you are wrong "And BTW, the gens have yellow tubes on the hands, not white, just like the rep. Tired of hearing that one Gens have silver tubes just like the color of the center pins of the hands. (trust me on that one!!!!)
  2. Indeed not so good news from Him. He was removed from as trusted dealer from RWI since he has a lot of unfinished projects and ARs. He was MIA for quite some months, the phones were switches off and no email replys. Now he is back and according to him, he is willing to sort out all the pending issues, but only time will tell. I would advise to be careful in placing any order until this issue has not been resolved. check indeed RWI for further details. best H.
  3. Thanks for the head up, it looks great but i want to make clear i did not provide you those hands. This has been discussed before so i am not going to extend about it. I will send you an email to put you up to date on those issues. There are not many genesteins with gen bracelet so this will be a special one
  4. Well i am sorry to tell you guys but i have seen this problem long before and i can assure you that IWC 3717 comes ONLY with silver center hands, there isn't and as far as i know wont be any version of 3717-01 made with black center hands. As far as factories is concerned i can also tell you there are several factories making hands for IWC and you probably just got from a sloppy one. This being said i saw a set of hands with black center parts in the past and yes they seem to be good quality as well but for some reason they have painted the center pin, i guess its easier for them, not sure why it happen that way or if it was just a mistake. This being said if you like them that's the important thing, you will have a custom one. Ps: I find it funny modelizer that you say that getting a damage hand (or one from each color) is a faulty from factory and not from the one who supplied you the parts. i would never, ever ship something like that to any of the members that get them from me. And if i got them from factory like that, they would be shipped back straight away or i would take the cost myself.
  5. inbox was full, should be working again. Sorry guys!!
  6. Not really true. As Mike said they are very hard to source since its an expensive watch and IWC is very picky on BP parts. Not to mention the fact they dont really like to sell parts, but rather get your original watches fixed by themselves. This being said with enough patience "almost" every part can be sourced.... waiting time can be big.
  7. Hi guys i can source many genuine parts but dont have stock of most parts as you can understand, so they would have to be ordered. Pm me for details (EU) or Texski (US). cheers H.
  8. independent of which version you pick, there will always be a difference from the performance of the replica movement to the genuine one (specially the chrono function), thats also why there is a significant price difference between them. You cant expect a cheappy Chinese replica movement perform as good as the genuine....
  9. Its not possible to make a franken since subdial spacing is wrong in all 5001 rep versions. They would have to make a fauz power reserve version to allow that. Its a good looking one nevertheless. wear it well.
  10. @Tleusink pm me for more details in case you are interested.
  11. crowns you mean? the case and caseback while similar are still different than the gen.
  12. yes... i mean these ones... I do have one left for my own project but i can order more if anyone is interested. Cheers H.
  13. crowns are relatively easy to obtain but it not possible to get genuine cases for 3714 so far. so for now, modding the rep case is the only option...
  14. indeed fish crown was used until 2004, models during/after 2004 are with probus scafusia crown. Same for double AR. Also many of the 3714 models we currently see are post-2004 so therefore come with the new crown. Its an extra detail
  15. indeed, its possible to obtain 3717 genuine cases but not 3714 cases. Genuine tubes for the 3714 are almost indistinguishable from the rep ones, so everybody is good with the rep ones. Genuine crowns are nicer (probus scafusia vs. fish ones). With double AR and brushed caseback, it looks pretty accurate as per gen, some minor tells, but pretty good already.
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