freddy333

Yes & the watch looks ready for business. Imagine how silly it/he would look if he had the blingy, original bracelet on the watch?

(click the pic for the link) I think this mitigates the only complaint I ever had about my GMTIIC (the polished center-link bracelet) & turns a blingy GMT back into a tool watch.

Linen dials are the best.

Still lugging this old thing around

Assuming it is up to their usual standards, just add the appropriate engravings & you are all set.

What did you use to do the initial prying?

Naturally aged gen insert

What is the process you used to remove the original rep insert?

And I thought the DSSD just looked silly on me.

Firefox has 2 add-on Extensions that I could not live without - Adblock Plus (which blocks ads from appearing or being downloaded to your computer) & NoScript (which removes potentially dangerous scripts & allows you to manually remove others). The two, combined, allow pages to load much faster (since advertisements & unwanted animations tend to be the largest components of web pages) & reduce the overall noise, which makes web browsing much more enjoyable. Does Safari offer anything similar?

Wow, tremendous shots, gentlemen. Kudos to all.

rosnik -

It seems to me that there are 2 groups of people in the world - those who take watches too seriously & everyone else. While the former, having just been willed dead uncle Wilfred's DRSD (also DOA), would do whatever it takes to get the timepiece running again, the latter group, I believe, upon hearing the costs Rolex charges to revive it, would either eagerly post the money-maker on ebay or, if sentiment trumps greed, toss it (ever so lovingly) into the bottom of a safe/drawer/cupboard & live with the knowledge that uncle Willie's ticker -- the 1 that remains above ground -- is well taken care of. Restoring vintage/collectible watches, as is the case with vintage/collectible cars, has always & will always be exceptionally expensive. This I know having spent several years restoring vintage/collectible cars &, now, (mainly Rolex) watches. But, when I began this thread, I was thinking more of the average, modern Rolex & the increasingly prohibitive costs Rolex levies against the average Rolex owner for regular maintenance. In previous years, an owner always had the option of taking his/her Rolex to an independent, Rolex-trained watchmaker, who, while perhaps not within the official Rolex service network, was still able to access it for parts. Sadly, with Rolex's recent clamping down on these independents, that option no longer exists. Or, at least, the door of opportunity will close as each watchmaker's parts supply runs out. Imagine having to sell your 5 year-old Datejust or GMT because the AD never made it clear that Rolex recommends (& requires, if you want them to honor the warranty) overhauls (that only Rolex can perform) every 5-7 years, the cost of which may soon exceed the purchase price of the watch. Even for Rolex, which has often been known to try to squeeze every last cent out of their customers over the years, that is pretty poor.

Wow. Ok, you win. That is some nice picture taking, Nanuq!

I was thinking the same thing.

We appear to have come full-circle as this was exactly my original point.

The purpose of the hacking feature is to make it easier for you, the owner, to set the time. So use whatever setting makes it easier for you.

There is a very big difference, as I see it, between modified Porsches or Mercedes cars & modified Rolexes - Porsche & Mercedes copies are rare (I have never actually seen a Porsche or Mercedes copy in the real world) while Rolex copies are ubiquitous, outnumbering gens & by a vast margin. To be clear, I would love to still be able to buy Rolex parts over-the-counter as I did back in the 80s. But I can also see that Rolex had to do something to stem the hemorrhaging of gen parts into the black market, especially in the Internet age where everything is just a click away. I think it was fair & reasonable to leave control of (localized) parts distribution up to the individual members within the Rolex service network.

There are few exclusives between rep sellers, so it is unlikely that a rep on 1 site is not available on thousands of others. As to the dealers in your title, I do not know the latter, but the former is 1 of the dealers listed in our Watches forums. They are 1 of the best in my opinion.

Ending the work week wearing the older of my 2 Cosmo-blings