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21j and 28xx movements are the same size. 21j and 2836 movements have the same stem height. The movement will physically fit.

You will need new hands, stem, and either a new dial or clip the feet of the old dial.

This question has been asked approximately a billion times and there is quite a lot of info on it if you do a search.

I've 3! One NOS that i'm preserving for a 16803/8 That hopefully will find its way to me some day. Another that has a slight blemish but is otherwise gorgeous. And a last one that has been refinished prior to my ownership but still very pretty - unfortunately it was refinished to "1000 ft" instead. I'm considering using one of the latter 2. 

Does anyone whom i can go to, to get it modified to look like the above?

Post up some pics--it should be simple enough to build one using a 1680 case... the dial is the only hard part to get. Swiss ETA 2846, cartel or MBW 1680 case, blue bezel insert for a tudor sub and you're done.

That lume is the color of [censored]. Is that normal?

You have gen blue nipple dials? Interested in selling one?

Depending on price I'd be interested.

Why would you relume a WM9 dial? The lume is honestly almost as good as gen.

That's the thing the case won't take a 3135 due to stem height

So redrill the case tube hole. The 3135 and 2836 aren't that far apart; the TC v4 case takes both pretty easily.

Seller has made a counter-offer at a price I'm willing to pay, but points out that he must put the actual value on the package and I may owe customs duties. Anyone have any idea what that might run me in the US?

I just couldn't see myself putting 1000.00 dollars of gen parts into a subC at this point. We need true 1:1 cases like sean, phong, TC have in order to justify those parts other wise we are putting lipstick on the pig. 

I disagree--the new BP case is quite good. I think the BP case plus A3135 and these parts would probably make a pretty nice watch.

As I keep on reading million pages, I can almost 100% sure I got faked by the seller. The watch should only got a Clark crystal , not gen. The bevel edge is very thin , as gen should be a but thicker.

could anyone do a close up shoot of the bevel edge of a Clark vs gen for me please

No offense, but you clearly don't even have an idea of what correct magnification looks like. Why do you think you "can almost 100% sure" you "got faked"? If you have a gen crystal from the pre-etched-coronet era, it's pretty damn hard to tell it apart from a good aftermarket sapphire. And there are dozens of different aftermarket sapphires available, not just from Clark's, all with slightly different shapes.

Sent an offer, we'll see what comes of it if anything

 doesn't 2.5 x should have the date window four corner touching the cyclop corners? 

No.

 The caseback and dial/hands are from yuki.

So yuki will sell a caseback by itself? Mind if I ask what it cost?

 Most modders on the replica forums are buried under work. Too few of them, and too many of us.

I've repeatedly posted that I'm NOT a modder, just a guy who likes to tinker with watches, and I still get constant emails asking if I will work on people's watches.

Just to be sure... No Navitimer-Rep anymore??? 

There really was never a decent one, so not a huge loss... hopefully whichever factory picks it up next does a good job.

The 7750 was built to run on this configuration

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The 7750 is set up 6-9-12. This is the 7753 tricompax configuration.

 Before your purchase you may also want to consider the replica Omega Speedmaster with the Lemania handwound movement. It is a similar design and a pretty accurate piece.

There has never been a rep Speedmaster built with correct subdial spacing and true chrono functionality, ever.

TT BSW0172A    

 

With the 3 subdials, is the 7750 movement able to naturally run these functions

A 7750 has 3 subdials, as does a 7753.

Got in touch with a massive dealer in preowned watches. They do verification, so I might try to get the seller there. If he balks, I guess it's time to keep looking.

Ask for a clear shot of the rehaut engraving. No one ever looks on a DSSD because the thickness of the crystal makes it hard to see, but it's usually an easy tell.

Also, I'm with the other folks--the first pic is of a gen and the rest are of a rep. Quite obvious.

We are all willing to learn how to do it.

Yes. But if it were easy, we'd all be doing it. We're not. What does that tell you?

  I just think that it's a non sense when the price of a rep part is getting close to the real deal. 

So do I. I don't buy those parts.

If no one does, one of three things will happen:

1) The rep parts will sell anyway, since there aren't enough gen parts on the market to satisfy demand.

2) The rep parts won't sell at that price, and the dealer will be forced to lower the price.

2) The rep parts won't sell, and the dealer can't lower the price and still make a profit, and so the dealer will stop making those parts.

That's how markets work.

 So, why those aftermarket guys are increasing their prices as well when they can produce the quantity they want?? They just take advantage of the market going up. So we must be fools...

They'd be bigger fools if they didn't take advantage of the market going up.

 more than a 1000 usd! Why? Because we are willing to pay that price.

Yes, just like anything else. If you have a problem with it, don't buy.

Just read that some dealers are asking almost 2000 usd for a 6538 case + dial. Pieces that are made in Vietnam or China for probably less than 100's of dollars!!

So make your own, price them cheaper, and reap the rewards.

What's that, you say? You're not willing to invest the time and money to learn how to do this, or run the legal risks of producing counterfeit goods? Well I guess you're just going to have to pay what they're asking, then.

There are literally thousands of good choices, you'll have to be more specific than that.

I got mine yesterday.

No idea what you are asking.

Are you asking if there reps of the Mido Multifort? I'm thinking no, since the low-end Swiss brands (Mido, Fortis, Longines etc) rarely get repped and I've never seen one, but I wouldn't be hugely surprised if I were wrong either.

Are you asking if there are waterproof reps you can wear with a suit? The answer is yes, thousands of them. I've dived with many reps.

 I think the second style is called dalphiune styled.

1) "Dauphine"

2) Similar, but dauphine hands properly are properly diamond/kite shaped with the hole in the center, not at one of the points. The ones on that Air King are more properly called Losange-style.

If I'm around, I'll show up