sneed12

Congrats on the wedding, and beautiful watch! I'm going to have to check out the Seamaster line, I didn't even know Omega made that model.

They hate the full green over on TRF... but I kind of like it. It has the sunburst dial, which I wish the blue sub had...

I have yet to find a rep with the correct engraving, but let us know if yours fits the bill.

Here's the picture the seller had on his ad.

Like I said, I'll get a better look when I actually have the watch in my hands... worst case I just turn around and sell it, but it really looks to me like the R is lined up with the 9 in that pic.

Where did you locate a correctly engraved case?

Watched the sale forum like a hawk. I bought a GMTIIc in need of a service for pretty cheap, and from the pics (they were quite good) it looked like the rehaut engraving was right. I dunno if there is a way to ask for one with correct rehaut engraving from a dealer.

I'll know if it's an improvement/worth the swap in a couple of weeks, the watch should be waiting when I get home from Europe.

The watches that really got me started in the rep hobby (just a few months ago!) were these two. They were some of the first that I'd bought parts and whatnot for, and I've been slowly improving.

The GMT IIc on the left has a new case coming with rehaut engraving that lines up. That and eventually a gen crystal (or doing the AR mod myself, not that I think it'll save any $$) are the only two upgrades I really have planned. A better clasp with deeper engraving would be nice, but not a huge deal to me. I don't think the etching is deep enough to do the black paint thing to.

The pepsi GMT II on the right has a longer story. Here's a straight on shot of it:

I bought a case, dial and hands from another member, but I was disappointed with the quality of the stuff (the dial had smudges all over it, the crown that came with the case had a broken stem bit in it, the hands were for CHS movement etc). So the project went on the back burner for a while.

Then I bought this:

wokky case, but otherwise in good shape, and I thought I could just do a straight movement swap into my nicer case and be done. I had a case laying around that was much less wokky and had better cg's, and the crown fit the tube (I suck at changing tubes).

Well, it turned out (if you look closely you can see it in the pics) the wokky one also was using the stock ETA datewheel, ie the date window is too far to the right compared to a Rolex movement. So the dial was unusable for me. I ordered another one from Trusty, a bit expensive but the only place I could find one. When I installed a datewheel with an overlay, it rubbed on the independent adjusting mechanism for the GMT hand. After some thought, I just went ahead and removed the whole mechanism--I set the offset to GMT (Chicago is 6 hours behind) when setting the hands, and now it's not adjustable--but that also means it won't get out of sync. The datewheel is an open 6/9, which I think is incorrect for this watch, but I like the way they look

I used an aftermarket seconds hand on it, and it's a little too wide--when I get back home (I'm in Switzerland right now) I'll swap it with another in the parts box to complete the look. I'm pleased with how these two turned out, however, and I'm glad to have injected some color in my watch collection! My other two Rollies are a ceramic blue Sub (with vac for lume right now) and an LV coming from BK (I just bought spot #53 on the waiting list, dunno how long that means it'll be...!) so the Rolex corner of my watch box will be a nice break from the black face motif I have currently going on...

Wristie from when I was sitting in the airport:

Do you mind if I ask a) what you're paying and if it will fit without any modification to the case or gasket?

If that doesn't do it for you I think helenarou will sell you one.

Be careful heading into Switzerland with reps mate.

I've flown into the Geneva airport literally dozens of times. I have never had anything on my person or bags searched. Thanks for the heads up though!

Heading off to Switzerland for a month or so, I grabbed a couple of new pieces and then realized...

Apparently I like GMT watches

Also I need to learn how to use this freakin' new camera. That's a horrible picture!

I like a loupe lamp:

Next step is a low-beat movement, right? 2846 or similar? Great work, looks nicer than mine did.

PM sent.

The only reason quartz movements have 1-per-second sweep is to save on battery. Quartz runs at much higher than 28.8k bph of course...! The vibrations of the crystal itself are what controls the watch.

You know what I think is ironic, is that mechanical watch movements with jumping second hands like a quartz were at one time sought after and expensive

Those things really go flying don't they.

Ofrei sells them, a bit expensive IMO. They're ~$5 for one or $7 for three, plus shipping.

I have a bag of 100 assorted clicksprings coming from eBay, when they arrive I'll dig through and see if I can find you something if you haven't sorted it out by then.

I have that model too. I was on the edge of flipping it for a while, but it really does grow on you. Mine is out to Vac for a re-lume right now.

Do you need a regular or Maxi second hand?

Last time I checked the 50% off coupon it still worked (lastchance50). This was a week or two ago, and it was "supposed" to end in 2009.

I prefer the original sized Mako, but that's a nice watch too.

Seiko Fanatic eh??

I've probably had, oh, three dozen SKX divers over the years. Love 'em.

Put some color into your life.. and start buying watches with some pizazz to them! You have all black face watches with white hands!

Hey, a couple of those are blue!

VErY nice collection though. Vary it up a little though!

I keep thinking of picking up a white face/blue hands dress watch, but I just never got around to it...

I'm going to Europe next week. I can't be the only one that travels a lot (I fly back and forth across the ocean to France/Switzerland ~15 times a year) here at RWG. Probably the safest thing to do is find someone who's going across the pond and ask him to mail it when they get there...?

If anyone needs something sent to Switzerland or the EU and isn't in a huge hurry, I'd be happy to ship it for them.

My watch box is full! What am I going to do? I like my first PAM (the 063 in the pic) so much that I want an 088, I have an orange PO coming in, my blue Sub will come back from re-lume with Vac in a few weeks, I have a couple more Seikos in the parts box I have to fix (one has sentimental value as my very first watch ever)...

Oh well, I guess there are worse problems to have

If Rolex made that watch I'd buy one.

Eventually, I mean. When I make a pile of money. But I would, I promise.

And our Rollies don't? I've had two GMT IIcs and a regular GMT II, but I just got my first Panerai rep (063) and it is an ETA 2836-2 with GMT mod instead of day function, and the GMT hand quicksets... saw another one for sale on RepGeek (an 088/089 hybrid) and the seller says it has the same feature. Is it standard on PAM reps? Why don't Rollie reps do that?

I think I remember him making a post about something like that too. I would be the other way around, though--the 2836 is THICKER than a 2824. A spacer isn't going to help, you're going to need to shave the bottom of the rehaut.

Bite your tongue! I have one of those, I just sent it off to Vac for re-lume...

I must admit it took a while for the smurf dial to grow on me. I almost sold it a couple of times.

Seriously though, how did Rolex never make a watch with the 16613 dial in a SS case? Blue with stainless steel is the second most classic color combination after black...

I bought this watch from another member (although I have not received it yet)

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac26/PrDubis/SDC10036.jpg

http://www.rwgforum.com/topic/109869-awesome-electric-blue-rolex-submariner-swiss-eta/page__p__770543__hl__blue%20submariner__fromsearch__1&#entry770543

I was then pretty new to the Rolex thing, I've been a Seiko collector and I'm just now learning about the Rolex lineup.

From what I can tell, Rolex only (from the factory at least) makes blue Submariners in the two-tone. Is that right?