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I love that Patek on Nato

Very nice work on the straps, nice Pam's, and nice photography... this thread is a win!

^ Shape of numerals are still a bit off + dial text... here is Gen to compare. That said, DSN's 207A is tempting

Got my Oncyte Zig lumed 196, merry x-mas

16610 gen on 18mm Bond nato.. closest i can find to Sean Connery 16mm

i vote yes. just for the interest of making information accessable and organized, all brands should have a seperate sub forum. Its not difficult to impliment, so why not?

202a ... picture taken at 12:12 on 12/12/12

Try to find a modded 202a in the sales forums, or 201a those are my all time fav's. Noob 111 is amazing, just ordered one for a friend and got QC pics today. Wow!

Looks really good, hard to tell that it's a V2. I assume you mounted the bezel on an angle on purpose as the brushing is not in line with the brushing on the case... Looks good either way. Great strap, looks like 'gummy' texture Ike a HBB

I have one. It's really good! Get one, you'll like it a lot.. make sure you get the V2 though, it's the best

Don't dismiss this to failure... Take this move,ent completely apart and Get a little plastic jar out and fill it up with all the screws and usable parts from this movement. If you are truly learning then look at the jar in a few years and you will se a lot more screws and parts in there. Then when you finally are at the point where you are fixing movements with a positive success rate you will need these little screws and parts, and it's a lot of fun to find one in the jar that will work... and youll remember where it came from

Damn... let us at least have some fun bidding it up to 10k+ before you report

Just keep at it. Check the keyless gears that are around the stem to see if they are moving the stem into date setting mode. Sometimes a gear can become dislocated from whatever they are supposed to be pressed into... hard to explain... easy to see in a loupe when you have it all assembled without the datewheel on as you can see if the gears are in fact doing their job when the stem is pulled into date setting position. When you see that one speck of dust in the watch after all that hard work it helps to go and have a drink and come back to it... it'll take the edge off before you bring out the hammer

I had a canal st 16610 for many years and it was always my go-to watch, even when i had 20+ reps. I have a gen 16610 now. I installed a glide lock clasp though, that upgrade is a must. Next on my list is a Daytona!

I love that Ti case blue dial of yours. Is that the same that was posted that the case was just refinished/microblasted? If an asian movement factory is able to rep the DD chrono module then it stands to reason that a true 1:1 AP rep could be made. If Noob just slimmed the case/caseback, relocated the crown tube, and updated the datewindow position on the dial, then simply use the A-2892 or the Sellita SW-300 + DD module and we are in business!

Any flaw that takes a loupe to see is nothing to worry about. Everyone should have one! It will show you why a gen is 30k and the rep is 300 bucks

Who am I kidding, I wanna hate it... But I like it!

Have on the Nautilus 5711G today, and a snake was passing by and wanted to check it out

I've been traveling in Italy and never had any problems.. Then again I didn't know of their strict anti-rep status until I got home. I'd still go for it, but not with something that I couldn't replace.

Great read, thanks for posting this! In what respect does the rep AP date wheel not fit on the 2846? Actual size or just number alignment? It looks as though it should work.. Nice Franken movement you have ended up with