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Panerais are the most common source of attention from strangers on the streets, along with my AP Juan Pablo Montoya Offshore, as these watches are quite distinctive and large, therefore noticeable. The Breguet La Tradition is also a nice conversation piece, as it's openworked, and everyone's amazed at how it works.

Lovely video to compliment my avatar.

$750 for the 7753 would be awesome, but the numbers are just terrifying. Won't happen, it's too hard to get 50 people to cmmit to buying a $750 rep.

There was $15000 in that pile, 100x$100s and 100x$50s. All are in the bank now.

40 quid is more than worth it for the effort Mark is putting into this, the cost of a datewheel, the time spent on the artwork, the calls, the process of sending them in and recieving them........... Thank goodness we have a project like this going on, this is the key to perfect PVD 028s!

This Panerai is actually worth buying, the JLC movement contained within is exquisite, and worth every penny.

Don't do it, buy a crapload of reps. Now tell me where this offer was, so I can pick it up.

You appreciate reps more when you are hit with a huge repair bill on gen watches. The deployant on my Breguet Reveil du Tsar popped open out of nowhere today, slipped off my wrist and crashed to the marble floors today. Not good. The watch looks undamaged, but I'm sure something has been broken, if I want it serviced, another $1500+ out of pocket.

Chronus and me are getting ready to send newly ordered 028s in for PVD.

I would expect the swiss to be something like $600. Why the heck anyone would dump that on a rep of a gen that one can get for $1000 give or take a few hundred is beyond my comprehension.

Those boxes are ****ing expensive, a dealer in Toronto sells these things for upwards of $2000 Canadian EACH!

Breguet Classique Reveil du Tsar.

Watchhonpo is selling this for 30,000 yen, while the 187 is going for 150% more. That's not a good sign. This rep looks absolutely horrific, just plain pathetic, IMO.

Pity I will be in London from June 15th.

My advice: Stunning watch, especially if it's on your wrist!

From what I understand, and was told, they officially are imprisoned for life, and are eligible for parole in January 2026, since they were arrested in January 2001, and the time is counted from the date of arrest, not from sentencing. They may make their first application for parole on this date, and may or may not recieve it. They will not face sentencing for their other crimes, the judge stated, as the harshest sentence available in Canada has already been handed out. It's really unfortunate that by the time they may get parole, they will still be in their early 40s (Both defendants were 18 in 2000, when the crime was committed). I also found out today that this is the second trial for these two men. A publication ban was issued before the trial began, to prevent us, the jury from finding out about the men's criminal history, and to prevent us from knowing another trial was held in 2003. After the trial, we now know a lot more. Apparently, in 2003, another 2 month trial was conducted, and the two men were found guilty by another jury after less than 8 hours of deliberations, and sentenced accordingly. They appealed the sentence and conviction, on the grounds the judge erred on his instructions to the jury, deeming them prejudicial, and the conviction was overturned by an appeals court in 2005, and the new trial was held in March 2006, and we convicted them yesterday again. We now know a little more about the criminal history of the men. Numerous convictions for robbery, break and enter, sexual assault were on the records of the men, and none of them served any jail time for their previous crimes.

The country is Indonesia, not Malaysia. But I still wish anyone in that area, that they are safe and doing well. Location doesn't matter, just correcting an error.

I sold my gen for $1100.............. It's not hard to find these used for <$1300.

Thanks ubiquitous! That's exactly the problem on my dial, it's just a light surface scratch on the matte finish. It went over the "L Swiss Made L", but it isn't as serious as going down to the base metal. I owe you one

Opened it with my 2 hands, with a little difficulty, but nonetheless, it was quite easy.

[censored]....... I was able to remove the bezel from my Fiddy finally, but this made matters worse. Removing the bezel, scratched the matte finish of the dial. Now I'm f***ed. Is there anyway to restore the matte finish? Thanks.

I have already opened the case back, and removed the screws holding the movement, but the movement doesn't pop out. I tried following The Zigmeister's tutorial, no luck. ANy help?

Does anyone here have any advice how to remove the caseback from a Fiddy? There appears to be some dust, which I must get rid of.

Now I reflect on my last 2 months of sitting in the stuffy courtroom in downtown Toronto, I am very proud now that I was able to serve my adopted country, by bringing justice to society. I may have hated the idea from the beginning, but as I reflect, I see that it is important to have a citizens voice in the conviction of criminals, and of course, with heinous crimes like these, society chose to lock them up forever. It is an experience that is not to be forgotten, the heated discussions we had in the deliberation rooms, the pressure on us that the 2 men can be locked up for life or set free just because of us. And I have no idea how the jury (us) could be called racist. The racial makeup of the jury was 1 Black, 1 South Asian, 2 East Asian and 8 White, which is more than representative of minorities in Canada, all of us of varying ages, occupations. We based our conclusion completely on DNA and other scientific evidence, and I made sure of this. All I can say is, I am happy for the family of the victim. Their 6 years of waiting for justice has finally come to an end, and it can provide some closure.

This afternoon, at around 5pm, all 12 of us reached our verdict in the murder trial, after deliberating from 10am-11pm on Thursday, and 7am-5pm on Friday today. I was the foreperson in charge of the deliberations, and made sure everyone acted sensibly and rationally. We filed into the packed courtroom, full of family members of the accused and victim, along with spectators and news reporters. The defendants began to shake as we entered the courtroom orderly, one by one. A minute later, the court clerk asked us for our verdicts, on each count per person, I loudly and clearly read out our responses as the charges were read out. Defendant #1- First Degree Murder- Guilty Attempted Murder- Guilty Conspiracy to Commit Murder- Not Guilty Comitting Indignities to a Corpse- Not Guilty Rape- Guilty Break and Enter- Guilty Armed RObbery- Guilty Sexual Assault with a Weapon- Guilty Defendant #2- First Degree Murder- Guilty Attempted Murder- Not Guilty Conspiracy to Committ Murder- Not Guilty Committing Indignities to a Corpse- Not Guilty Rape- Not Guilty Break and Enter- Guilty Armed Robbery- Guilty Sexual Assault with a Weapon- Guilty As soon as I read the Guilty verdict on the First Degree Murder charges, both the defendants fell over beside each other in the prisoners box and started sobbing uncontrollably. I filed a request to the judge, that we can be allowed to return to the courtroom to hear the sentecing after. The judge thanked us for our duty, and discharged us from duty. All 12 of us filed back into the courtroom, standing in the back of the room. The judge then said "This was a horrific crime, one committed in cold blood, with clear intent to kill, and withoput absolute regard for human life." "As a result, Mr. XXX You have been convicted of First Degree Murder, I must sentence you to Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 25 years, the automatic sentence for First Degree Murder in Canada. "Mr. XXXXX, you have also been convicted of First Degree Murder, I must also sentence you to a mandatory sentence of Life Imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 25 years." "Do you have anything to say for yourselves?" Both the defendants then continued to profess innocence and racism, and called the jury "racist". The judge then said, take both of these scumbags out". The defendants then looked at their family members one more time while being cuffed and led away, while the victims family was hugging each other, consoling each other, and were clearly happy by the verdict. And that's it, after 2 months, justice has been served.