calatrava

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I have to say the technology involved is pretty cool. Just hope it's not vaporware. I'm not even going to ask how much it'll cost...

I hope it works out with the JLC date wheel alignment. From your photos, it looks like the standard ETA date wheel is reasonably well-aligned in the radial direction, but off in terms of the angular alignment. This would suggest to me that any date wheel designed for a date window at 3 o'clock would have the same alignment issues with the gen dial.

Given that Vacheron doesn't use the standard JLC date wheel, it's certainly possible that they created a date wheel for precisely that strange date window location asymmetrical about the 4 and 5 o'clock markers. Who knows, I hope I'm wrong, and that it works out.

Did I read somewhere that you had an extra franken black dial VCO you were thinking of letting go? Let me know if you ever put it up for sale.

I think it depends where you sell it. As I said, if I sold it in London I will get 200/300 more than if I sold it elsewhere.

To be honest, it's not going in sale any time soon, but in it's condition (and I wont be wearing it much), with its papers,box etc. I am confident I can make my money back, or even a profit on it. It was a lucky buy in all fairness!

If you're willing to do the leg work to sell directly to another collector in London, you should have no problems making your money back.

Yeah, Nikki is a real pain, but the last time I discussed this with Angus (late October), he said he was replacing Nikki with Lalai as the front end person.

Thanks, I'll bear that in mind. I think I will try and sell it to dealers in London first for around £1,600 just to see what offers I get.

You're more likely to get a good price if you sold it directly, since the dealers would pad their offer to give them a healthy profit. Also, if you meant that you paid GBP 1300, then that sounds like a fair price, since that's about the $2000 that most people try to sell theirs for.

Erm -to the OP: Does your caseback say "Antimacnetic"? not sure if thats just lighting or a genuine typo

Yeah, that's a typo. The new casebacks for the VC Overseas are crappy, which is why I was considering buying the quartz VCO just for a donor caseback.

This is available from Tony (Asian7750).

I'm tempted to get this cheap quartz replica as a caseback donor. The caseback is excellent.

http://www.timesshop.net/vach-constantine/2440-vc3564---vc-overseas-white-dial-ss---japan-quartz.html

That is a fantasy watch, Rolex doesn't make watches with open heart complications.

Even second hand value? I paid 1300..

This is a good price, since they're over $4k new. If you get tired of it, I would be happy to buy it for what you paid.

A Patek/Breguet/Lange/VC dress watch where attention has been paid to details:

Engravings on movement and case back deep and crisp

Sharp looking case

hallmarks

and (dare I say it...) no spelling mistakes...

Yes, please. I would love to get a high-quality Patek Calatrava based on the new Seagull microrotor movement. Although there appears to be some issues with power reserve (and I guess winding efficiency) on this movement that they're trying to sort out.

How come the lower subdial doesn't look too low on this one?

Because, if you look carefully, the subdial at 6 is smaller than the other two. Sneaky...

A JLC Reverso with functional dual faces, and only own crown.

I've always loved these vintage daytonas. I was thinking about purchasing one for my father's birthday (a 6265 or 6263), but the conflict I have is he has a rather large wrist and usually wears watches in the 42-45mm range.

Do these wear small? I've heard the modern daytona wears small for a 40mm and most specs say this is a ~38mm diameter.

These watches are on the small side, the vintage Paul Newman Daytonas measure about 37mm. Since the bezel takes up some space, the dial is quite small, which makes it look smaller on the wrist than even the 37mm would suggest.

Another wrist shot, but higher resolution. And some of the original QC photos.

I'm fixing one of those 1:1 Nautilus and I guarantee it is a SW200, not the SW200-1.

Is it marked as a SW200-1, but have the brass gears associated with the SW200? The two I have are marked SW200-1, but I haven't taken them apart to check that the brass gears have been replaced with steel gears.

I don't know about the AP diver, but the cartel 1:1 Nautilus comes with the SW200-1 movements.

This is from Mary (watchinternational), but the cartel dealers also carry it.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Darn, one of my local AD was losing his rolex AD dealership. So he was selling anything he had in stock with last years prices plus 20% off in june. I should have posted this on the boards. But, didnt want him to get in trouble with Rolex. We I live is kind of rural and rolex moves very slow here andwe have another Rolex AD that give out good non advertised deals. Of course this is the worst time of year to buy anything. But around basel him always calls to tell what specials he is running. If anyone is serious drop me a line in the early part of next year.

Hmm, I need to remember to get in touch with you about a Rolex GMT IIC early next year.

It's from Tony (asian7750). The gen doesn't have the shiny bevel around the date window, and the change in the date font is due to the use of a clone 2836-2 instead of a Swiss ETA, and is not an improvement over the ETA date font.

These are QC photos of a Vacheron Overseas Deep Stream. Any comments or observations would be greatly appreciated.

I just received this Paul Newman Daytona with asymmetric pushers, panda dial, and Seagull ST19 manual wind movement in the mail, and wanted to share a wrist shot.

Just tried out the new 42mm Rolex Explorer II at my nearby AD, and I wanted to share some wrist shots. The bezel still had the protective plastic on it but some of it detached at the 24 hour location, which is why it seems like a blemish at that location.