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I've always liked the Damasko line. Really nice aesthetic, and I like the crossed perpendicular lines motif they use a lot.

Thanks Janeto! Everybody has gone quiet Maybe we need a clue?

No, just nobody cares. That's a game my 7-year-old plays.

Personally, I'm with the Zigmeister on the lume job. You took something that isn't made anymore and could never be replaced, and altered it.

If you want to buy a 996 and modify it, go ahead. Porsche still runs the factories that make the parts, anything you want to change could be changed back.

But don't buy a 356 and hack it up. There are fewer and fewer every year, and they're a piece of history now.

If cost is no object, why destroy something irreplaceable when you can achieve exactly the same result using readily available parts?

The only ones i assume wear reps are account managers.. well ppl in sales. *car dealers*.

When I was a car dealer, I wore a gen Rolex. It was 10 years ago, I don't know that super-reps existed then.

Uhh... it goes together the same way it came apart... In the immortal words of the Haynes manual, "assembly is the reverse of removal."

Movement goes in the back.

I've never seen a rep with that serial number.

Sounds like a nice little scam to me.

These offices hold all mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee or returned to the sender, usually because the address is either illegible or missing.

They only sell the contents if there is no indication of who it should go (or go back) to. What else are they supposed to do? Use telepathy?

You have three options:

1) Buy both, swap the blued hands onto the one you want, send it out for superlume to one of the modders.

2) Buy a gen.

3) Give up. The YMII reps suck anyway.

If I had to guess, I'd guess yes (high crown position implies gen, a few other details) but there's no way in hell I'd buy any watch with pictures that terrible.

Also if it's a gen, why does it have that datewheel?

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Man, that's messed up. Someone needs to figure out how to fix that in the swear filter.

and a guest can expect some hospitality.

And then after they made you wait a whole few days, you decided to throw a little girl tantrum about it?

Why do you guys fuss so much over the accuracy of your dial only to add bright, glowing lume

i guess its your turn to apologize, you can keep your "approval"

Simple courtesy. You are a guest here (as we all are). If you don't want to follow the rules here, don't sell here (and that's what you did, you found someplace else to sell).

No need to be a [censored] about it.

Depends which dial and what condition it's in, but expect to pay more for the dial than you did for the watch. Then you'll immediately destroy most of its value by clipping the feet off of it. Installation is pretty easy.

The three I've purchased had no lume. These are copies of original trit dials, not service lumi.

Figured. In that case, I'll send my Josh 1680 dial to PbDad for bright white lume. I like my watches to glow.

Do the ingod dials have decent lume? I'm thinking about picking up one of these

http://www.ingod44.com/rolex-red-submariner-1680-feet-first/

By "decent" I mean bright. Does it glow?

Interesting to see the Schwarz Etienne movement have the same dimension to that of the A7750, or do you still need to mod the case to get it fit in?

7750 is quite a bit bigger than the 2892, but that's easily solved with a spacer ring... I want to know how the offset crown position was handled!

I split the watch stuff and the Honda stuff into two separate posts, since they were starting to diverge.

I really don't understand your stance here.

It's not a "stance." I attempted to answer your question. You asked: "why don't the rep factories do X" and I said "because it's technically difficult, they wouldn't make much money on it, and the watches they already make sell just fine."

I can't see the argument that there wouldn't be a desire to improve the products when they are always constantly evolving anyway.

A new cloned DD chronograph module wouldn't be an "improvement." It would be a whole new product, more complicated and finicky than anything that the Chinese factories make now, especially at the price point that reps sell at.

That's why I said, you don't understand the magnitude of the question you're asking. You're asking "why isn't my car a rocket ship." The rep factories build cars, and they can make them better and better all the time, but they can't just turn around and make rocket ships.

The factories use just a few base movements, because those are the movements that they're already equipped to build. They can turn out a whole lot of A7750s. To build a different kind of chrono movement would require a whole new assembly line, essentially a new factory. Look at how much trouble we've had just getting a decent 7753 out of the factories--and that's the same basic movement as the 7750!

Adding gears to move the output from 9 to 12 is easy. Building a true seconds at 12 movement would be very, very hard.

Oh and selling a thousand cars a year isn't what I would call a massive success. But then again perhaps you know better there too.

Really? Selling nearly 1 NSX for every 3 Ferraris isn't what you'd call a "massive success"? A clean-sheet supercar design from a brand-new "luxury" marque (Acura launched in 1986, and yes I know that the NSX was sold as a Honda in many parts of the world) that could compete head-to-head against a long-established Italian luxury brand selling a thousand cars a year was... a failure? Are you nuts?

I ran a Mitsubishi store for about 4 years, I know the car business pretty well. Honda hit a home run with the NSX. A supercar like that is never going to sell 20k units per year, there simply aren't that many buyers. They got a halo car for Acura, they got lots of R&D for their F1 program, and they got 15 years of sales out of it.

There's also the blue Snowflake with a date, I just suggested the Heritage ad you already have several Subs, so thought it would give a new option to the collection Another blue Sub option, is the Japanese market release blue 16610, which is also a really nice piece

Sneed. They did and it was called the NSX. And nobody bought it actually.

Are you joking? They sold over 18k NSX over the original 15 year production run. Ferrari sold 3-4k cars per year over the same period (they sell more units now).

Besides, the NSX was as much about research as it was about selling cars.

They would bother because they could charge a lot of money for them.

What makes you think that, and how much do you think is "a lot"? The market for $500+ reps isn't that big. We here at these forums are a small slice of the watch buying population.

They're cloning the panerai power reserve movement so there is a desire to do it.

It's a much simpler module to copy than the DD chrono module.

Perhaps not a clone then but something that didn't eat itself.

Physics is physics. Adding extra gears to move outputs around adds friction. There is no way around it.

If everyone thought like that there'd be no progress.

I'm a scientist who works at the LHC. I fully understand the nature of progress.

You are asking "stupid" questions--that's not an insult, but it's clear from the nature of your questions that you don't understand the basic mechanics of watch movements or of our reps. There's a reason why almost all reps are based on one of three movements, and there is really only one automatic chronograph movement available to us. It's like asking "why don't they make a car that can fly?"

The only automatic chronograph movement that can be sourced cheaply enough to be practical for reps is the A7750. Modifying it is problematic, due to the construction techniques that the rep factories use. Even watches where the gen movement IS a modified 7750 (like the IWC 3714) make for problematic reps.

The reps the factories make sell. Why would they spend more to make watches that few would buy?

Maybe like this...

hmm... serious possibilities

Looking good, nice work indeed If you're going for the 12, how about a Tudor Heritage chrono?

A tudor isn't a bad idea, actually... maybe a blue sub with date?

I never worried about it before, but since I've started my new job I sold all of my reps that would be worth more than $15k or so if they were gens. I was sad to see the blue dial ceramic Submariner go.

The "most expensive" in my collection would be a Big Bang and (I think) the AP diver.

The half-life of cobalt 60 is ~5 years. If you eat a gram of cobalt-60, you have problems. Trace amounts of cobalt in steel that you wear around your wrist are not going to hurt you.