Tribal

Great ones from the old days. After the reps get better over the years, we can see the old stuff is something special and can't be beaten this days. Wonderful pieces, I like a lot!!!

There are a lot of Microbrands that came up on Kickstarter this days. Most of them claim Swiss Made, but when you look at it, it's clearly Chinese Stuff. People with no knowledge about watches jump on the train and think they have have a unique timepiece. Really weird.🤢

They go really expensive! 😲 Weird!!! https://bensontrade.com/watches/meccaniche-veneziane

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Good to see you again.[emoji106]

Good news I think . Congrats to Mike on a bike.

It's like gen.

The bezel fastening ring is the retainer.

I will take a look at, when I install a gen Tube. To countersink the Tubehole you only need to measure the last dip of the Tube. There must be enough space for the gasket.

So it's mostly the same construction than on a 116610. The crystal clips in the plastic gasket. The retaining ring holds crystal and gasket in place. There is a Hyrtel ring inside the bezel that hold it in place. Do u understand?

Yes, you don't understand. Must the Tubehole drilled to right dimensions?

Yes like gen construction. glass with gasket fitted over Rehaut. Retainer pressed over glass with gasket. Like this!

Thanks mate, do u know if the Tubehole must be drilled or only retapped? Have you tried the Rep-crown on the generic Tube? By the way DW?We talk about ARF!

Yes, just pop it off with a knife. On the Pics you see, crystal, movement holder, retainer, case and bezel.

Do u have Pics. I've done it on all my Rolexes in the past. Has the Tubehole right dimensions or must it drilled too?

Yes, it's much thicker than a Sub crystal. Here you can see the construction.

Yes it will fit, but hard to get! This is the Rolex Number B25-7003-1C1

I haven't reinstalled the Rep Tube yet. But I think it must be countersink. On the Pic is the Rep Tube.

Yes, Same as usual.

I have a ARF SD43 in 904L. It scratch easily and seems very soft material. It has a lot of small dings and scratches only from wearing. That's definitely not Oyster Steel.

Not really noticeable difference in my eyes. I think 904L on reps are softer and easy to scratch like 316L. That's my opinion on this

Bought it from Watcher, he changed to gen crystal. Btw this is how it looks without Cyclops.

Hello Gang, I want to inform you that the ARF V2 SD 126600 comes also with a Cyclops that magnifiers like 3x. It seems that it depend which batch you get. The crystal has also an invisible AR coating on the backside. I got a V2 with 3x magnification on an sale and changed the Crystal to the right one. ( Thanks Watcher ????) Here you can see the difference. Before After So the difference is obviously. Cheers Tribal

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Looks really good to me, I did the same comparison years ago, but unfortunately the Pics are gone[emoji848]