freddy333

Read this (pay attention to item 5 under Posting) & this.

If your price is comparable to NDT or CWP, it ought to be fine since both of those are aftermarkets as well.

I hate to say it, but I think you may have copied an aftermarket hand. I am not sure why, but there is some variation as to where the tip resides over the dial (in sales brochures, the tip ends at the chapter ring), but the bottom of the triangle is always perpendicular to the wand of the hand & all 3 sides are an equivalent length. Here are a few more gens

I hate to be negative & it may just be your pic, but is the bottom of the triangle on your tip perpendicular to the red wand & is the triangle equilateral (all 3 sides the same length)? Compare the shape of the tip to this gen (note, especially, the angle of the bottom of the triangle as it intersects the red hand) There are a number of aftermarket sellers who have been offering small GMT hands for a couple of years now, but the tips are the wrong shape (the gen tip is always equilateral).

If gen, big mistake. If rep, butcher away.

You need to disassemble the auto-wind module, thoroughly clean the components, oil & reassemble. Common problem to which that is the solution. And, for the umpteenth time (there are pinned articles about this in the watchmaking forums that should be read ) - the movements in most rep watches are used/unserviced. If this is a watch you plan to keep & rely on, you would do well to have it properly overhauled (fully disassembled, ultrasonically cleaned, oiled, reassembled & timed) by a professional watchmaker. That way, like all mechanicals, it should keep good time & run reliably for the next 5-7 years (the recommended time span between overhauls).

As it is just after midnight, I can now officially (& safely) begin the Friday Wristies with my black Newman, which I wore out to dinner

Nice work, but a couple of thoughts - Every red-handed 1675 I have seen had very definitely yellowish lume, including NOS hands (see below) Also, if anyone is interested, here is a NOS red-handed, gen GMT hand for sale from a reliable seller (click pic for link)

If your hand is glowing, it is too late for iodine (which may block some of that glow from embedding itself in your thyroid). A better move would be to hire yourself out as a traffic light or party favor before your head blows off.

The attached end pieces are only on modern Daytonas, some vintage models accepted standard-style (generic) straps. That said, this may be an aftermarket strap.

Why do you guys fuss so much over the accuracy of your dial only to add bright, glowing lume, which is a dead give-away of fakery on a 40+ year old vintage Rolex? Very few vintage Rolex (tritium) dials have any glow left in them & those rare pieces that do, glow very faintly for just seconds.

Ditto Alligoat.

The fact that it is not in a sealed Rolex package makes me suspicious, but the design looks correct for the last version bezel/insert. If it came from a well-known Rolex seller, I would not worry about it. As always, remember, buy the seller before you buy the Rolex whatever.

I would contact CWP again & (politely) explain the problem. I agree that, unless you paid ~$100 additional for overnight delivery, 3 days is much too soon for a package to make it from Asia to the US, especially considering the day the package will spend sitting in customs. Unfortunately, most post offices & shipping companies will only release the delivery information to the sender, so they will have to request delivery confirmation from their end to see what address the package went to. For whatever it is worth, I have always found CWP good to deal with.

With so many truly outstanding pics in this thread, I am not sure why you picked out that 1, but thank you.

Please do not re-quote entire pic posts just to add a line or 2 below.

If cost is not an issue (with the understanding that differences, while they exist, may be subtle), always go gen. If not, Clarks is a good alternative.

A number of my pics have shown up on gen sites (usually with the proper attribution), but I do not remember either of the Hanging Daytonas pics on that site. Though it is certainly possible I either forgot or just was not aware of the reposting.

I do not know about this particular case, but there is not alot we can do about other sites that steal from RWG. This is the reason I watermark all of my pics.

TZ, VRF or ebay are your best bets.

Vintage gens are the watches to worry about (but not seriously)

This should be interesting.