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Is there a site dealing these asian movements? Or do we have to go to the dealers and ask directly, I don't think I've seen any of the dealers have movements advertised.

This guy has me equally worried, although his past purchasing history makes the story a little more believable.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280557156139&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

@Mickey: HAHA! You tell him Mickey!

@Importr: Touche

@Lello: COME BACK! WE NEED YOU!

I think I should call on the experts here,

Rep or Gen?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Black-Rubber-44mm-PANERAI-Deployment-Buckle-New-NR-/120616535233?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c154e44c1

The packaging is a ziplock bag, I had a look at some recent member posting for gen straps and the packaging was very different. What are your thoghts guys?

He claims:

"""Brand New never used since I rather use my Titanium / Stainless Steel bracelet, 24 mm BLACK RUBBER"""

Yet there are three auctions going at once, with a Buy It Now of $600 in one listing.

What are your thoughts guys? TGTBT? (Too Good To Be True for those not so acronymically inclined)

www.askmen.com has surprisingly good advice on formal/casual attire, how to properly get fitted for suits, where cuffs/shirts/pants need to sit on the body. One thing that's really important when buying a suit, for example, is having it properly tailored so it fits your body. I'm not talking some homosexual Queer Eye stuff, catch an episode of Mad Men and look out for the lead, Don Draper. His wardrobe department have him impeccably dressed, the perfect model for any men to aspire to look manly and well-groomed.

Learn about which buttons to do up, and which to leave. Believe me, it makes a difference.

Learn the difference between two- and three-button suits. Lapel placement (the higher the better) and most important, single and double vented jackets and what the purpose of pleats in pants are.

I have an incredibly fashion savvy (and gorgeous to boot) girl who takes great delight in dressing me, find yourself a helpful, stylish woman, you can't go wrong. They just get it, when we're useless. Fact of life.

Good luck, show us your new threads

"DLC Coating POANERAI?"

You sure you want to be spending money DLCing a watch called a POANERAI?

(messing with you buddy )

Avitt has some crazy finishing, pretty expensive but the best finish I've seen.

Good luck, show us pics when it's done

I love hey the call it an exact copy of the Swiss 7750

He just copy/pastes his listings like every seller/eBay junkie does, bound to be a slip up.

And, it seems it's already corrected. He's fast, that Josh

You're such a [censored]-stirrer BT ;o)

Three words:

Breitling

Tricompax

Navitimer

;o)

Can you just add one more picture from the side? I think you might have missed an angle... ;op

Apparently these have fallen in price from their exorbitant original prices, along with the Zenith Extremes, might have to have a look at this new B01 ;o)

Looks great! Wear it well.

I just received an education in watch design

haha not lying @ all, I do have hackR's double AR'ed/Vac'ed up Navi but this one was actually my old one, all stock and just a photographic miracle

here's both of them side by side

on a related note, the case back spells Moscow as MoscUw but that's an easy fix

To the OP... Chronoluvvv is so obsessed with Navi Worlds, he has TWO! They're worth obsessing over, they're brilliant.

On a side note, I just received a bracelet and have tried to fit it using a lug bar tool, with no success. My spring bars are slightly too big, can anyone tell me what actual size they need to be? (in mm?) total length before compressing. It's doing my head in trying to fit them.

Cheers! :drinks:

To start, you can get a ETA 7754 new on the bay for $320

I can't find anything less than US$500, send me a link through PM

Haha Navitimer World franken... Mmm mmm ;o)

I would say that the caseback shape may be to accommodate the extra GMT module, as the movement sits lower.

To make a good franken, you'd need to replace the dial and movement with gens, replacing one wouldn't work, as the A7750 date width is different to the 7754, so the gen movt needs a gen dial (judging from the Navitimer talk by andreww and others)

I'd say a dial, hands and movement swap would be possible, but not sure how they'd line up in the case, might sit too low compared with the A7750. The only way is to try, I would definitely get a nodded version of this watch if it were available, I think the Navi World is a favorite amongst the RWG forum ;o)

Additional mechanism for the gmt hand scares me. I wonder if we can put in a eta 7754 movement in this watch. Any thoughts?

Mine seems fine, I haven't read about them having any particular problems. A Franken Navi World with a 7754? I like where you're going with this ;o)

recessed DW

weak A/R

mis-matched bezel numbers

but i don't care, it still holds immense appeal to me

here's my older stock one

Don't lie, this is Hackr's one with the Chief AR... Noting stock about this beauty. An hour or two earlier and it would have been mine

The Navitimer World is close to my heart as my favourite Navi. In this time of larger watches, the 46mm wears very nicely indeed

Chrono hit the three major issues, and has already ticked off 1 of 3 courtesy of the Chief A/R coating on his.

Apparently there is the possibility to fix the datewheel (search "Navi World datewheel mod") by gluing a Lello on top of the existing wheel, there are many (and far more informative) forum threads dedicated to this, I'd like to do this on mine but all the good modders are in Europe and the States and Customs are scary monsters who steal watches from innocent people like us

The rep dial is pretty amazing, on a bracelet it looks a million bucks. All all the Navitimers (incl Montbrillant, Legende, Navi base, World, etc), the World is probably the nicest, IMHO. You'll love it.

Good luck.

Last auction that was held sometime last year I heard it went for well over $100K. And then there's the actual availability which is close to none these days, as most of their current owners are guarding their prized possessions well ;-)

Well executed vintage Pam reps with non-alarm Angelus are quite expensive, primarily due to scarcity and attractiveness of the movement itself. I can't say I'm surprised about the 7K Euro price tag for the one in question.

I'll have to eat my words, that falls well under the '10% of a Gen' price! ) That's actually pretty good value at 7k Euros!

+3 ;o)

How much is the gen version ffs!?

Any chance we could see more pics?

Same here, would be great to see a few more details about how this turned out.

Not sure about your particular example, but I've seen some dealers charging truly astronomic amounts for what are claimed to be 'solid gold' cases. If someone has found a Gen movement, Gen dial, Gen Hands etc, I could see it running up to a grand. Some reps are reaching 1-1.5k in the sales thread here...but 7k? Hmmmmm...

Just saw this on Watcheden:

Are these replicas of any existing models?

Cheers guys!

It's not bad, a simple little app with pics of the latest models, a cool feature is a screen-sized running clock that can just sit on your desk. Pretty neat.

Ooops, I thought they were all about the 5-600 dollar mark, didn't realize this was so expensive. Makes sense that they would rep them.

Hopefully someone on the forum who knows more will chime in. Good luck mate