Nice review. But for me the hands are a glaring problem, the flush crystal less of a problem. It still should be corrected by buying one of the raised and beveled crystals offered by other modders.
I have three of these:
SS with back dial and black number
SS with black wave dial (I have pics on RWI under tbonner1)
They both have the smooth bezel and are sublime. I also got:
Yellow gold with black wave dial and coin bezel
These are from the Noob factory and they are fantastic:
Detailed dials like gen
case and bracelet weight like gen
No AR on crystal but an easy fix
I have had very good transactions from Replicamake, ask for Lay. Very low prices.
Why not try one of the 21J Daytona's with seconds at 6 and no stopwatch function?
You can get them at a good price without having the reliability issue with 7750's.